Janet Davis is a former

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, Canada. She represented Ward 31 Beaches-East York (now Ward 19), the northern portion of

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, from 2003 to 2018. She is well known for her work on affordable day care and preserving public pools in the city. Before her election to Council she served as president of the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care, she also spent fifteen years developing child care at the

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and also served as senior policy advisor to the Minister of Education. On June 13, 2018, Davis announced that she was not running for another term in the October 2018 municipal election after 15 years in office.

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