The Ontario Municipal Board has approved the City of Toronto plan to add three wards to the electoral map. It brings the total number of wards to 47 from 44 and redraws ward boundaries all over the City. In South Bayview and across Midtown changes will send voters and maybe some politicians back to school for next year’s election. Ward 22 (Josh Matlow) has survived more or less intact but it’s now called Ward 26. The present Ward 26 (or a lot of it) now held by Jon Burnside contains Leaside and Bennington Heights. It will become Ward 33. Much change awaits those below Moore Ave. where Kristin Wong-Tam’s power base of Ward 27 has been chopped up and allocated to the new Wards 21, 22, 25 and 34. No doubt Wong-Tam will find a favorable place to run from among her choices.
WARD 34
Residents of Moore Park and Rosedale will now find themselves in Ward 34 along with much of East York. The candidate in this ward will have to seek votes from residents of Inglewood Drive and Carlaw Ave. It stretches from Yonge St and Davenport Rd. to Coxwell Ave and the Danforth. Interesting territory. The map below contains an error which might confuse people from Moore Park, Deer Park and area. It places the Mud Creek in the Vale of Avoca and the Yellow Creek in the Moore Park Ravine. Geography has it just the opposite. The whole map
