Ila Bossons, former Chair of the Annex Resident\u2019s Association, died December 7 at the age of 83. Bossons served as a Metro and Toronto city councillor from 1988-2000, serving four terms through the turbulent period of Toronto\u2019s amalgamation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Metro Councillor Bossons represented Midtown, an area that included the Annex, but extended North to Eglinton. She was concerned with enhancing the city\u2019s liveability, and known as a progressive who was independent of the unofficial NDP coalition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
An early advocate of recycling and bike lanes on Bloor Street, Bossons worked with the Toronto Conservation Authority to enhance protection of the city\u2019s ravines. She also campaigned for provincial permission to let the city install cameras to catch people running red-lights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ila Bossons voted against Toronto\u2019s 1996 bid to host the Summer Olympics. Again in 2000, she was one of only two councillors who voted against approving Toronto\u2019s bid to host the 2008 Olympics, along with Michael Walker of North Toronto. At the time, bid chair David Crombie called the 54-2 vote a \u201cringing endorsement,\u201d though Toronto ultimately lost to Beijing. Bossons argued the money would have been better spent on schools, housing and hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ila Bossons was born in Germany in 1937. She attended schools in Munich, Madrid, Pittsburgh and New York. She leaves John, her husband of 56 years, her son Miles, and her brother Walter Haeberle. A full obituary will appear in an upcoming issue of the Gleaner<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2014Nicole Stoffman\/Gleaner News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ila Bossons, former Chair of the Annex Resident\u2019s Association, died December 7 at the age of 83. Bossons served as a Metro and Toronto city councillor from 1988-2000, serving four terms through the turbulent period of Toronto\u2019s amalgamation. Metro Councillor Bossons represented Midtown, an area that included the Annex, but extended North to Eglinton. She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1101,3],"tags":[697,3806,2009,4207,4224,421,3774],"class_list":["post-8988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annex-2","category-news","tag-annex-gleaner","tag-annex-residents-association-ara","tag-ara","tag-dec-2020","tag-ila-bossons","tag-ndp","tag-nicole-stoffman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gleanernews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gleanernews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gleanernews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gleanernews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gleanernews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gleanernews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8989,"href":"https:\/\/gleanernews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8988\/revisions\/8989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gleanernews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gleanernews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gleanernews.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}