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Early life and education. John Howard Tory, the eldest of four, was born on May 28, 1954, in Toronto, Ontario, to Elizabeth (née Bacon) and John A. Tory, president of Thomson Investments Limited and a director of Rogers Communications. His grandfather was lawyer John S. D. Tory and his great-grandfather founded Sun Life of Canada.
- Early Life and Family
- Early Career in Law and Politics
- Business Endeavours
- Return to Politics
- Broadcasting
- Successful Campaign For Mayor
- First Term as Mayor
- Second Term as Mayor
- Third Term
- Resignation
John H. Tory was born into a prominent Toronto family with a strong presence in law, business and media. (See also Business Elites.) His grandfather, John S.D. Tory, founded what is now one of the largest law firms in Canada, Torys LLP. Tory’s father, John A. Tory, was also a lawyer. He left the family firm to act as chief financial advisor to Ken ...
After finishing law school, Tory joined the family firm, then known as Tory, Tory, DesLauriers and Binnington, in 1980. Later renamed Torys LLP, it is one of Bay Street’s most powerful corporate law firms. Tory left the firm in 1981 to make his first official foray into politics. He served as principal secretary to Ontario premier Bill Davis and as...
In 1995, Tory became CEO of Rogers Media Inc. following its acquisition of Maclean Hunter, a major media conglomerate. In 1999, he left Rogers Media to become president and CEO of its subsidiary Rogers Cable Inc., at the time Canada’s largest television and Internetprovider. Starting in 1992, Tory served as volunteer chairman of the Canadian Footba...
Tory returned to politics in 2003. He ran for mayor of Toronto but lost to David Miller, garnering 38 per cent of the vote to Miller’s 43.3 per cent. Tory then turned his attention to provincial politics. He was elected leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party in 2004. He won a seat in a 2005 by-election, becoming MPPfor the riding...
According to the National Post, Tory was drawn to broadcasting even as a top executive at Rogers, and hosted a community access public affairs show on Rogers Cable. In 2009, after leaving provincial politics, Tory began hosting a daily three-hour afternoon radio show called The Live Drive on CFRB (Newstalk 1010), Canada’s largest talk radio station...
Tory entered the race for mayor in the final months of Rob Ford’s tumultuous term. By the time the campaign kicked off, Ford, who was running for re-election, had been stripped of key executive powers following an admission that he had smoked crack cocaine while in office. Tory was seen as a steady and experienced alternative who shared Ford’s fisc...
Over the first half of his four-year term, Tory won praise for restoring calm, consistency and a sense of normalcy in the wake of predecessor Rob Ford’s tumultuous term. He restored civility at City Hall and brought a workmanlike, professional approach to the mayor's office. He initiated important reforms on poverty reduction and affordable housing...
Tory had campaigned for a second term on a platform that included building more affordable housing, investing in arts and culture, improving public transit, and introducing new road safety measures. Construction of the downtown relief line for the Toronto subwaywas scheduled to be completed by 2029, two years ahead of schedule, thanks to a $162 mil...
On 8 December 2022, the Ontario government passed legislation giving so-called “strong mayor” powers to the mayors of Ottawa and Toronto. The powers — which include the ability to unilaterally draft and table the city’s budget, to pass measures with the support of only one-third of council, and to veto bylaws approved by council — were designed to ...
On 10 February 2023, the Toronto Star published a story alleging that the 68-year-old Tory had had an affair with a 31-year-old staff member. The affair was said to have begun during the COVID-19 pandemicand was ongoing during the 2022 mayoral campaign, though the staffer had moved on from her role at city hall in early 2021. Shortly after the stor...
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John Howard Tory was born on May 28, 1954, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada as eldest child of John A. Tory and Elizabeth (née Bacon). His father was a Canadian lawyer and corporate executive who served as president of Thomson Investments Limited and as director of Rogers Communications.
Apr 22, 2015 · Tory is the eldest of four power kids to power couple Liz and John A. Tory’s cousin is a partner at Torys LLP. His father, James M., built the firm into a corporate law powerhouse. A former ...
New Toronto mayor John Tory aims to get the city back on track. On his short morning subway ride to City Hall one bitterly cold day in January, Toronto mayor John Tory found himself chatting with a young woman heading to work. As he often does when approached on such journeys, he asked her about the TTC. The woman told him something about the ...
Nov 8, 2015 · Mayor John Tory speaks to Flemington Public School students as he marks the start of the largest rebuilding project in Toronto Community Housing’s history, beginning with the demolition of aging ...
Before becoming mayor, John Tory worked as a lawyer, political strategist and businessman, and was the leader of the Progressive Conservative party of Ontario from 2004 to 2009. Mayor Tory joined TRSM’s Distinguished Counsel-in-Residence, Ralph Lean, to talk directly to TRSM students about law and business as part of the lecture series, Law ...
