{"id":800515,"date":"2026-07-14T03:50:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800515\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T03:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T03:50:41","slug":"bonnie-crombie-to-run-for-mayor-of-mississauga-ont-vying-for-her-old-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/800515\/","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Crombie to run for mayor of Mississauga, Ont., vying for her old job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a short stint leading the Ontario Liberals, Bonnie Crombie is looking to get her old job back as mayor of Mississauga, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>Crombie wrote to supporters in a message obtained by The Canadian Press that she intends to register as a mayoral candidate on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>She will be up against incumbent mayor Carolyn Parrish, as well as other candidates that include city councillors Alvin Tedjo and Dipika Damerla.<\/p>\n<p>Crombie served as Mississauga\u2019s mayor for a decade before leaving midway through her third term in 2024 to lead the Ontario Liberals.<\/p>\n<p>She stepped down from that role early this year following lukewarm support in a vote at the party\u2019s 2025 annual general meeting, after a snap provincial election that saw Crombie fail to win a seat in the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Crombie first entered politics at age 47 after a long business career and has also served as a Liberal MP and Mississauga city councillor.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a short stint leading the Ontario Liberals, Bonnie Crombie is looking to get her old job back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":800516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-800515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800515","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=800515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/800516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}