Jennifer Keesmaat

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Jennifer Keesmaat (April 19, 1970) is a Canadian urban planner who was chief city planner at the City of Toronto from 2012 to 2017. After leaving municipal government, Keesmaat became CEO of Collecdev-Markee. She ran in the 2018 Toronto mayoral election, receiving 23.6 per cent of the vote and placing second to incumbent John Tory. On August 28, 2017, she announced that she would resign from her position as chief planner, effective September 29 of the same year, and subsequently accepted a teaching position at the University of Toronto. In March 2018, Keesmaat became the CEO of the Creative Housing Society, an independent non-profit group dedicated to creation of affordable housing projects. She was named the ninth most influential person in Toronto by Toronto Life in 2014, and the 41st most important person in Canada by Maclean's in 2013. On July 27, 2018, Keesmaat announced her candidacy for mayor of Toronto in the 2018 mayoral election. She placed second to incumbent mayor John Tory...

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