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Barbara Hall CM (born 1946) is a Canadian lawyer and former politician who served as the 61st mayor of Toronto from 1994 to 1997, the last mayor of Toronto prior to amalgamation. Hall served as the chief commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission from 2005 to 2015.
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Oct 10, 2020 · Toronto Mayor Barbara Hall drew a distinction between the way she would seek to govern the amalgamated Toronto and the way that Mel Lastman, her fellow mayoral candidate, would.
Sep 9, 2012 · Hume: How Barbara Hall made Toronto better. A little known planning policy introduced in the ‘90s when Barbara Hall was mayor continues to transform Toronto. Sept. 9, 2012. 2 min read.
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A lawyer and social activist, Barbara Hall provided legal aid for gay men arrested in the Operation Soap bathhouse raids and ran for the New Democratic Party in the 1985 Ontario election, losing to Liberal Ian Scott.
Mar 31, 2015 · Over the course of her long career, Barbara Hall has been (among other things) an activist, a lawyer, a city councillor, a waitress at The Second City, and, most famously, the mayor of Toronto.
Sep 24, 2016 · Barbara Hall, former Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission and former Mayor of Toronto, has served for more than 50 years as a community worker, lawyer, municipal politician and champion of a grassroots approach to community-building.
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Jun 26, 2023 · June Rowlands was the first woman elected to become the city’s mayor and served from 1992 to 1994. Barbara Hall was elected in 1994 and served until 1997 as the city’s 61st mayor. “Politics is a very male culture. And that needs to change,” Nash said.
