Howard Moscoe, a veteran Toronto city councillor and the first amalgamated chair of the Toronto Transit Commission, died at age 86. He began as a high school art teacher in North York, later leading teachers’ organizations and serving as a governor with the Ontario Teachers’ Federation. He ran for provincial office three times as a New Democratic Party candidate. He entered city politics in 1978 and retired in 2010 after 32 years, representing the western half of the Eglinton-Lawrence ward. His accomplishments included support for rent-geared-to-income housing, opposition to apartheid, human rights efforts in Nigeria, and advocacy for LGBTQIA+ issues at the TTC. He chaired the city’s licensing and standards committee and became TTC chair in 1998, focusing on transit infrastructure and ridership growth.
"Chow said Moscoe’s key passion was building a vibrant public transit infrastructure and promoting ridership growth. She added that he read virtually every City Council and TTC report and had an encyclopaedic memory of their content, bringing it to Council and TTC meetings. She also said he advocated for WheelTrans and taxi drivers and supported giving the province control of the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway."
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