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Jonathan Goldsbie

As a journalist, editor, and reluctant podcaster, Jonathan Goldsbie has spent nearly two decades covering politics, media, power, elected leaders with the surname “Ford,” and the intersections between those things. This included a four-year stint as a staff writer at NOW, which overlapped with one of the strangest periods in Toronto history.

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I followed Olivia Chow over a summer of announcements and events to try to understand how she's fared as a leader. I came back with a more fundamental question about what it means to be mayor of Toronto when real power lies elsewhere.

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