of councillors serving two terms only. She retired from city council in 2018 after representing Beach and East York residents for eight years.

Norm Kelly, who served Scarborough for 33 years municipally and who was an MP for one term, said he did some consulting with Hill+Knowlton in the months following his departure from city hall after he lost Ward 22 (Scarborough-Agincourt) to Councillor Jim Karygiannis.

Kelly has also been appointed senior fellow at the Global Cities Institute at the University of Toronto and executive adviser to the World Council on City Data.

He spent part of the past few months going through 175 boxes of paper he accumulated in office, winnowing it down to 20.

He’s closed the side-business he used to run, selling merchandise branded with slogans like “6Dad,” afterhe became an international internet sensation for defending Drake on Twitter in his dispute with American rapper Meek Mill. Kelly grew his Twitter following to more than 700,000 as a result.

These days he’s focused on family — he and his wife have five grandchildren — and to reading and gardening.

“I tell you I never knew that there were so many weeds in this world,” said Kelly.

In January, Neethan Shan took up the role of executive director of the Urban Alliance on Race Relations after losing Scarborough—Rouge Park by the slimmest of margins.

He misses being able to advocate at council for under-represented communities in Scarborough, and he feels that with larger wards and fewer councillors, these groups will be even less represented.

Shan won his seat under the 44-ward system