14 Facts About Tony O'Donohue

Anthony Edward O'Donohue was a former municipal politician in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Tony O'Donohue moved to Toronto in 1956 to pursue his profession as a municipal engineer designing urban services such as roads, water supply, sewage treatment, storm water run-off and waste management.

Tony O'Donohue was elected as a Toronto City Council alderman in the 1966 municipal election.

Tony O'Donohue ran for Toronto mayor in 1972, losing to David Crombie, and again in 1978 to John Sewell.

Tony O'Donohue was the true pioneer of environmental issues in municipal politics in Canada.

Tony O'Donohue made it a key issue many years before the public considered it important.

Tony O'Donohue was returned to City Council following a by-election after the death of City Councillor George Ben in 1980.

Tony O'Donohue spent the next 14 years working to address the many energy and environmental problems facing urban areas.

Tony O'Donohue argued that the city paid millions of dollars to make sufficient beds available for the homeless and there was no need for anyone to lie or sleep on the sidewalks.

Since leaving politics, Tony O'Donohue operated his own company until 2004, Environmental Probe Ltd.

Tony O'Donohue made news in 2002 as a result of his legal challenge to the Act of Settlement barring Roman Catholics from the throne of Canada.

Tony O'Donohue filed an application to the Ontario Superior Court, O'Donohue v Her Majesty The Queen, calling on the court to strike down the discriminatory sections of the act as being in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Tony O'Donohue's case was dismissed in 2003 and his appeal was denied.

Tony O'Donohue convinced City Council to apply to the province for special legislation to set up the Toronto Atmospheric Fund.