Which Toronto mayoral candidates were at the AIDS Walk?

Toronto mayoral candidates George Smitherman, Joe Pantalone and Rocco Rossi had teams at Sunday’s AIDS Walk.

The walk is the biggest annual fundraiser for the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Organizers aimed to raise $330,000 this year. Find out more at aidswalktoronto.ca.

(image by Le-Ann Dolan, via ACT – check out more pics on ACT’s Facebook page)

According to their tweets, Sarah Thomson and Rob Ford’s campaign teams were at the Ukrainian festival in Bloor West Village.

In 2006, Ford opposed funding for AIDS service organizations in Toronto
on the basis that “If you are not doing needles and you are not gay,
you wouldn’t get AIDS probably.”

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