TORONTO \u2014 Giorgio Mammoliti, an outspoken former Toronto city councillor and member of the Ontario legislature, has died at 64. <\/p>\n
His son Chris Mammoliti confirmed the news to The Canadian Press on Wednesday, saying his father was surrounded by family members when he died.<\/p>\n
“We are obviously devastated and are left with a tremendous void,” he wrote in a statement. “Dad loved his family, his community and our beautiful city.”<\/p>\n
The family is asking for privacy as they grieve, he wrote.<\/p>\n
Mammoliti served as an NDP member of provincial parliament from 1990 to 1995, sat on city council from 2000 to 2018 and twice ran for Toronto mayor. <\/p>\n
He also unsuccessfully ran for the People’s Party of Canada in last year’s federal election to represent the riding of Simcoe-Grey, northwest of Toronto.<\/p>\n
PPC Leader Maxime Bernier said he was saddened by the news, calling Mammoliti a politician who was driven by his “dedication to the people he represented” rather than party ideology. <\/p>\n
“He was known as a principled man who was willing to stand apart from his own party to serve his constituents’ interests when he believed it was necessary,” Bernier said in a statement. <\/p>\n
Toronto city councillor Mike Colle said in a social media post that Mammoliti was “fighting for his life” at Sunnybrook hospital before he died. <\/p>\n
“Condolences to his family and friends and may Giorgio’s memory be an eternal blessing,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
Coun. James Pasternak remembered Mammoliti for his dedication and outspokenness. <\/p>\n
“He was very dedicated to public service and always treated me with the utmost respect,” he wrote in a social media post. “I enjoyed his humour, energy and passion to speak his mind.”<\/p>\n
During his time on city council, Mammoliti was a member of late mayor Rob Ford’s executive committee and known for controversial comments and proposals that included setting up a red-light district on Toronto Island.<\/p>\n
Donna Skelly, the Speaker of Ontario’s legislative assembly, has also offered her condolences to Mammoliti’s family and friends. <\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 25, 2026. <\/p>\n
Sharif Hassan, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Giorgio Mammoliti, an outspoken former Toronto city councillor and member of the Ontario legislature, has died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-499768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}