When Mohamed Dhanani catches a live body at the door on a leafy Leaside street, he quickly explains why he could achieve the near-impossible and defeat an incumbent councillor.
“Fifteen of us ran last time,” Mr. Dhanani tells Horst Mueller, a homeowner on Glenvale Boulevard, near Laird Drive. “I came in a very close second. I lost by only 214 votes.”
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In the case of Mr. Dhanani, an Ismaili Muslim who immigrated to Flemingdon Park as a teenager and went on to Yale, he’s hoping to dislodge John Parker, the former Progressive Conservative MPP who narrowly beat a crowded field in 2006 to replace Jane Pitfield in Ward 26 Don Valley West.
via Nail-biting rematches in Toronto municipal election – The Globe and Mail.
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