Jewish mayors were elected in several major Canadian cities in the municipal elections this month in the province of Ontario. Lorrie Greenberg was elected mayor of Ottawa, Canada’s capital, by an overwhelming vote of 84 percent. In North York, a borough of more than 4000 residents within Metropolitan Toronto, Mel Lastman was re-elected mayor. He polled 80,000 votes to his opponent’s 20,000. Philip White was re-elected mayor of York Borough. In Mississauga, a large suburb west of Toronto, Dr. Martin Dobkin failed to win re-election.
The city of Kitchener now also has a Jewish mayor, Morley Rosenberg. Known as Berlin until World War I, this city was founded by German-speaking immigrants and still contains a large core of residents of German origin. The prevailing religions are Lutheran and Mennonite. Numerous Jewish aldermen, school trustees and some controllers were also elected in the Toronto area and elsewhere in Ontario.
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