Chris Moise

Chris Moise
Toronto City Councillor for Ward 13 Toronto Centre
Incumbent
Assumed office November 15, 2022
Preceded by	Robin Buxton Potts
Personal details
Born	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	New Democratic

Chris Moise is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent Ward 13 Toronto Centre on Toronto City Council following the 2022 Toronto municipal election.^[1]

Political career

He previously ran as an Ontario New Democratic Party candidate for Oak Ridges in the 1999 Ontario general election^[2] and for Brampton West—Mississauga in the 2003 Ontario general election,^[3] and as a federal New Democratic Party candidate for Brampton West in the 2004 Canadian federal election.^[4]

He ran for election to the Toronto District School Board in the 2014 Toronto municipal election, losing to incumbent trustee Sheila Ward;^[5] following Ward's death in office in 2016, he won the resulting by-election.^[6] In the 2018 Toronto municipal election, he initially registered to run for city council as a candidate in Ward 25;^[7] however, after the provincial government of Doug Ford passed legislation cutting the size of the city council in half by aligning ward boundaries with provincial and federal electoral district boundaries in the city, which would have pitted him against incumbent Ward 27 councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam in the new Ward 13, he withdrew from the race and ran for another term on the school board, winning re-election.^[8]

Moise is a Black Canadian, and openly gay.^[9]

References

1. Francine Kopun, "Meet the new faces on Toronto City Council". Toronto Star, October 24, 2022.
2. "Riding by riding election results from across the province". Welland Tribune, June 4, 1999.
3. "NDP Candidate Chris Moise; Brampton West-Mississauga Candidates answer important questions about election". Brampton Guardian, September 24, 2003.
4. "Liberals sweep Brampton ridings". Brampton Guardian, June 29, 2004.
5. Terry Davidson, "TDSB has its own issues ; School board has made headlines for a myriad of constroversies (sic)". Toronto Sun, October 20, 2014.
6. "Toronto Centre-Rosedale voters elect Chris Moise in trustee byelection to replace former board chair Sheila Ward". City Centre Mirror, June 21, 2016.
7. "Council races could shift city's direction". Toronto Star, May 1, 2018.
8. Isabel Teotonio, "TDSB poised for major turnover: 'Change can be positive,' about half of board will feature new faces". Toronto Star, October 23, 2018.
9. Rob Salerno, "Chris Moise elected to Toronto school board". Xtra!, June 21, 2016.