Rob Burton was born on c 1946 and is a Canadian businessman, journalist and politician.
11 Facts About Rob Burton
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Rob Burton was elected in the municipal election of 2006, having failed to unseat Ann Mulvale in 2003.
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Rob Burton was re-elected to office in the 2010,2014 and 2018 municipal elections.
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Rob Burton graduated from the University of New Mexico with a degree in history and economics before receiving a Master's of Science in Journalism from Columbia University.
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Rob Burton was recruited shortly after by CBC to help establish their new consumer rights programme Marketplace.
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Rob Burton worked as a journalist and television producer until 1988, when he led the creation of the youth-focused television station YTV.
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Rob Burton ran again in 2006, managing to unseat Mulvale by a nearly 2000-vote margin.
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Rob Burton is a vocal critic of Ontario's development industry, describing large developers as a 'cartel' in 2017, after suggestions that developers wanted to ease planning restrictions and greenspace protections to improve housing affordability.
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In 2015, Rob Burton apologized for a series of tweets comparing Stephen Harper's use of veterans in the Canadian Corps of Commissionaires to Mussolini's Blackshirts and Hitler's Brownshirts.
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Rob Burton has served as the Chair of the Halton Police Services Board since 2014.
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Rob Burton won re-election in October 2022 by a narrow margin.