Английская Википедия:Brad Bradford

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Brad Bradford (born August 1, 1986) is a Canadian politician and urban planner who has represented Ward 19 Beaches—East York on Toronto City Council since 2018. Bradford ran for mayor of Toronto in the 2023 by-election, placing eighth.

Early life

Bradford was born to Valerie Bradford, who gave her son the first name Bradford, to continue her family name (as her father and uncle had five daughters combined and no sons), along with her spouse's last name. When he was seven, his mother left her spouse and raised her three children as a single mother and reverted to using her original surname. Deciding he wanted to use his mother's surname, Bradford adopted his present surname, shortening his first name to Brad.

Background

Prior to his election, Bradford worked as an urban planner for the City of Toronto. He holds a Bachelor of Environmental Studies (BES), in urban and regional environments from York University, and a Master of Arts (MA) in urban planning from the University of Waterloo.

Family

Bradford's mother, Valerie Bradford, was elected as the member of Parliament (MP) for Kitchener South—Hespeler in the 2021 federal election. He has two daughters, Briar and Bronwyn, with his wife Kathryn.

Political career

First term

2018 election

Шаблон:Main During the 2018 municipal election campaign, Bradford received endorsements from Mayor John Tory, Deputy Mayor Ana Bailão, former Liberal member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Arthur Potts, Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon (the previous incumbent of ward 32, which made up a part of the current ward boundaries), and former Toronto chief planner and mayoral candidate Jennifer Keesmaat.

Bradford defeated candidate Matthew Kellway, who represented Beaches—East York federally from 2011 to 2015 as the New Democratic MP.

Second term

2022 election

Шаблон:Main Bradford campaigned on the need for affordable housing, to improve parks, improving transportation, and reducing crime in the 2022 election. He ran against five other candidates and was endorsed by Mayor John Tory.

Planning and housing committee

Following the 2022 election, Bradford was appointed as the chair of the planning and housing committee. Following the election on Mayor Olivia Chow, Bradford was named vice-chair.

2023 mayoral by-election

Following the resignation of Mayor Tory in February 2023, Bradford formed an advisory committee to explore a run for mayor of Toronto. He was advised by Liberals Khokon Abbas, a consultant, former candidate Andrea Barrack and campaign strategist Bob Lopinski, as well as Progressive Conservatives Dennis Matthews and Kory Teneycke, who worked on Premier Doug Ford's campaign team.

Shortly after he indicated he was considering a run for mayor, a postering campaign describing him as "two-faced Brad" began to circulate in his ward.

Campaign and platform

Bradford hired Matt Hiraishi, who previously worked as chief of staff and former campaign manager to Ontario education minister Stephen Lecce, as his campaign manager .

One of the first platform items he released was a plan to increase public safety on the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). He proposed establishing a new agency to respond to mental health crises, expanding cell phone service throughout the subway system, hire an additional 40 special constables and 50 police officers to patrol the TTC and, and retrofit subway stations to include platform doors.

Bradford proposed redeploying 200 parking enforcement officers at 50 intersections during rush hour, and create a new office to coordinate construction and maintenance projects.

He lost the election, only having received 9254 votes.

Election results

2022 Toronto municipal election, Ward 19 Beaches—East York

Candidate	Vote	%
Brad Bradford	15,169	54.71
Jennie Worden	6,291	22.69
Adam Smith	1,902	6.86
Steven Thompson	1,735	6.26
Frank Marra	1,460	5.27
Donna Braniff	703	2.53
Sébastien Auger	469	1.69
Total	27,729	Шаблон:Right
Source: City of Toronto

2018 Toronto municipal election, Ward 19 Beaches—East York

Candidate	Votes	Vote share
Brad Bradford	14,286	38.56%
Matthew Kellway	13,998	37.78%
Joshua Makuch	2,315	6.25%
Diane Dyson	1,612	4.35%
Veronica Stephen	1,257	3.39%
Valérie Maltais	929	2.51%
Adam Smith	708	1.91%
Brenda MacDonald	601	1.62%
Paul Bura	288	0.78%
David Del Grande	283	0.76%
Morley Rosenberg	248	0.67%
Frank Marra	142	0.38%
Donald Lamoreux	141	0.38%
Norval Bryant	89	0.24%
Dragan Cimesa	77	0.21%
Paul Murton	74	0.20%
Total	Шаблон:Right	Шаблон:Right
Source: City of Toronto

External links

• City of Toronto webpage