Ward 7 Councillor Georgio Mammoliti will run for the Progressive Conservatives in the general election. He will be nominated in a new riding known as Brampton-Centre. Mammoliti was first elected to public office as the NDP MPP for what was then the riding of Yorkview in 1990, serving his first term in Bob Rae’s NDP majority government before his defeat in 1995. He joins City Councillors Shelley Carroll and Denzil Minnan-Wong who are also running in the provincial general election. Carroll is nominated by the Liberals in Don Valley North and Minnan-Wong by the PCs in Don Valley East. A recent tweet by Steve Paikin that Ward 22 Councillor Josh Matlow was getting calls asking him to run for the Liberals in St. Paul’s has been met with silence. Eric Hoskin, the former Health Minister, recently retired from the riding to take a federal appointment.
