{"id":833044,"date":"2026-07-29T05:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833044\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T05:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:59:10","slug":"former-harper-cabinet-minister-chris-alexander-to-run-for-mayor-of-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/833044\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Harper cabinet minister Chris Alexander to run for mayor of Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785304750_231_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Leadership candidate Chris Alexander speaks during the Conservative Party French language leadership debate, Tuesday, January 17, 2017 in Quebec City. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Jacques Boissinot<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 28, 2026 | 10:06 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Former Conservative cabinet minister and ambassador to Afghanistan Chris Alexander is set to enter the race to become Toronto\u2019s next mayor.<\/p>\n<p>A campaign spokesman says Alexander will officially register his campaign Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The former member of Parliament for Ajax-Pickering says in a news release announcing his candidacy that Toronto gave him everything, but has been unnecessarily \u201cstanding still.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alexander\u2019s campaign touches on several points such as bettering the city\u2019s economy, transit system, housing and infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leadership candidate Chris Alexander speaks during the Conservative Party French language leadership debate, Tuesday, January 17, 2017 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-833044","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\/833044","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=833044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}