Olivia Chow is the great organizer of the left. Can she be a unifying mayor?
Bob Gallagher’s voice catches telling the story, because even now, three decades later, the memory of the Metro council vote to grant health-care benefits to the same-sex partners of city employees is emotional.
Gallagher had a personal stake in the vote. He was then councillor Olivia Chow’s chief of staff and his partner had AIDS.
