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of Ward 32 Beaches-East York. While there, she helped forge the centrist coalition that reversed Rob Ford's proposed budget cuts to the tune of $ 19 million, ultimately breaking the mayor's majority hold in council and restoring funding for ice rinks, pools, community grants, homeless shelters, leaf
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