By all accounts, the realtionship between Jack Layton and his (similarly-successful) wife Olivia Chow was a true love affair. Despite their high profile, they lived (with Olivia's mom!) in a modest home in Toronto's leafy and lively core. They practiced what they preached by riding a bike everywhere, having solar panels on the roof, a thick urban garden, and a mural of 2 doves on the exterior ---- symbolizing world peace or their own peaceful world??
Their neighbourhood bordered a university campus, old China Town, and the city hall district: a perfect reflection of their influences and constituents and intellect. We stopped at the house, half expecting Jack to step out and offer spring rolls and summer laughs. Instead it is another of many shrines to a man already dearly missed.
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