{"id":18209,"date":"2025-02-26T13:56:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/jeromy-farkas-announces-2nd-run-for-calgary-mayor-calgary\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:56:01","slug":"jeromy-farkas-announces-2nd-run-for-calgary-mayor-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torontotribune.ca\/index.php\/2025\/02\/26\/jeromy-farkas-announces-2nd-run-for-calgary-mayor-calgary\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeromy Farkas announces 2nd run for Calgary mayor &#8211; Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Former city councillor <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/jeromy-farkas\">Jeromy Farkas<\/a> is again running to be Calgary\u2019s mayor in the fall municipal election.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the former city councillor\u2019s second run for mayor, after placing second to current Mayor Jyoti Gondek with 29 per cent of the total votes in the 2021 municipal election.<\/p>\n<p>Farkas launched his campaign early Wednesday morning on his website.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Global News, Farkas said he is running with a vision for the next 10 years as the city faces unprecedented population growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to give Calgarians something to vote for, not against,\u201d Farkas said. \u201cThis is not about the last four years, this is not about one person, this is about the next 10 years for Calgary. I strongly believe the next 10 years for Calgary is going to set us up for success or failure over the next century.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Farkas said his campaign will be socially and fiscally responsible, with a platform of building a plan for the city\u2019s growth, building housing, creating jobs, improving safety and trust in leadership.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h3>Get daily National news<\/h3>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He insinuated that city council is \u201cstuck\u201d and \u201cpicking petty fights,\u201d and that has contributed to a lack of trust in Calgary\u2019s municipal government.<\/p>\n<p>Farkas will be running as an independent candidate, and criticized political parties at the municipal level as entities that would \u201cincrease dysfunction.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Calgary<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI strongly believe that when Calgarians call up their representative, whether that\u2019s a city councillor or mayor, they deserve to know their elected official is working for them rather than the narrow interests of a political party,\u201d Farkas told Global News.<\/p>\n<p>Farkas served as Ward 11 councillor between 2017 and 2021 and was often criticized for being a contrarian on council, notably voting against the original arena deal, and calling for spending cuts and pay freezes.<\/p>\n<p>He was once <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/4771966\/jeromy-farkas-kicked-out-of-council-salary-change-vote\/\">removed from a city council meeting<\/a> for refusing to apologize for a social media post that city officials later deemed broke <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/4852331\/calgary-council-votes-to-freeze-pay-2019\/\">council\u2019s code of conduct.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<section id=\"content-dynamic-trending-stories\" class=\"l-inlineStories l-inlineStories--tile u-hide-tablet-landscape\" aria-label=\"Dynamic trending stories section\">\n<p>\n\t\t<span class=\"l-inlineStories__title c-heading c-heading--strikethrough\">Trending Now<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11033940\/dead-body-plane-couple-sit-next-mitchell-ring-jennifer-colin-qatar-airways\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-posts__media \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" data-src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/australian-couple-dead-body-qatar-airways.jpg?quality=85&amp;strip=all&amp;w=336&amp;h=224&amp;crop=1\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-posts__details\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-posts__headlineText\" title=\"A woman died midway through a flight. 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Where could Canadians see layoffs first?<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cI always stood up for financial responsibility, and I always supported public safety, and I helped make Calgary one of the best places on earth to be able to live in,\u201d Farkas said when asked about reflecting on his time on council. \u201cThat\u2019s what I want to be able to continue to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>But Farkas said he\u2019s grown over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Following the 2021 municipal election, Farkas embarked on a 4,270-kilometre journey on the Pacific Crest Trail, which raised more than $200,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters Calgary and Area.<\/p>\n<p>He then became CEO of the Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation, in which he advocated to protect the park from a government of Alberta upstream flood mitigation project on the Bow River, which will now be built near the Ghost River Dam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve learned leadership means owning your mistakes, it means attacking the problem and not the person, and it means not having to be the smartest person in the room,\u201d Farkas said. \u201cReal success comes from being able to build and lean on a team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far, Farkas joins previous 2021 mayoral race rivals Gondek and former councillor Jeff Davison in the 2025 mayoral campaign, as well as ex-police commission chair and Calgary lawyer Brian Thiessen.<\/p>\n<p>The municipal election is scheduled for Oct. 20.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script defer src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;appId=318812448281278&#038;version=v3.3\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11034173\/jeromy-farkas-run-calgary-mayor\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former city councillor Jeromy Farkas is again running to be Calgary\u2019s mayor in the fall municipal election. It\u2019s the former city councillor\u2019s second run for mayor, after placing second to current Mayor Jyoti Gondek with 29 per cent of the total votes in the 2021 municipal election. 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