John Sewell
BIO
Biography

John Sewell is a lawyer by training, but has spent most of his working life involved in different aspects of local politics: Toronto city councillor 1969-84, Mayor of Toronto 1978-80; community organizer and activist 1966-present; urban affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail 1984-6; chair of the Toronto public housing authority 1986-8; chair of the (Royal) Commission on Planning and Development Reform in Ontario 1991-3; advisor to East London city council, South Africa, 1994-9; advisor on the re-establishment of local government in Malawi 2000 - 1; urban affairs columnist for Toronto's NOW Weekly 1988-99, and for eye weekly, 1999-2007; an organizer of fight against the megacity in Toronto, 1996 - 7; member of Charter City Toronto; co-ordinator of Toronto Police Accountability Coalition (www.tpac.ca); author of a dozen books about city politics; frequent speaker on local politics and land use planning issues. Awarded Order of Canada, 2005. 

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PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Crisis in Canada's Policing
Publisher
James Lorimer
Year
2021
Title
How We Changed Toronto: 1969 to 1980
Publisher
James Lorimer
Year
2015
Title
The Shape of the Suburbs
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
2009
Title
Mackenzie, a political biography of William Lyon Mackenzie
Publisher
James Lorimer
Year
2002
Title
Houses and Homes, Housing for Canadians
Publisher
James Lorimer
Year
1994
Title
The Shape of the City, Toronto Struggles with Modern Planning
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
1993
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Order of Canada
Year
2005
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