Stephen Holyday is a Canadian politician who has served on

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since 2014. He is currently the

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and represents

Ward 2 Etobicoke Centre Ward 2 Etobicoke Centre is a municipal electoral division in Etobicoke, Toronto, Ontario that has been represented in the Toronto City Council since the 2018 municipal election. It was last contested in 2022, with Stephen Holyday being elect ...

. He was first elected in the old Ward 3 Etobicoke Centre during the 2014 municipal election.

Background

Holyday was born in

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. He is the son of

Doug Holyday Douglas Charles Holyday (born 1942) is a retired Canadian politician who served as the last mayor of Etobicoke from 1994 to 1998 and the deputy mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2013. Holyday was first elected to Etobicoke City Council as an alderm ...

who previously represented the ward, served as Mayor of Etobicoke, and was briefly a member of Provincial Parliament (MPP). He and his wife Margaret have three children. Alex Bozikovic, ''

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s architecture critic, called Holyday "furiously anti-development". He has also been described as one of "three Toronto councillors hopelessly exacerbating the housing crisis" by More Neighbours Toronto. Holyday is a

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. He opposes building new bike lanes and new multi-unit housing in neighbourhoods that consist of single-family homes. He endorsed Mark Saunders in the

2023 Toronto mayoral by-election The 2023 Toronto mayoral by-election was held on Monday, June 26, 2023, to elect the 66th mayor of Toronto to serve the remainder of the Toronto City Council 2022–2026, 2022–2026 city council term following the resignation of Mayor John Tory ...

Election results

References

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