Who is coolest man in Toronto? Just ask Drake.

By Adela Talbot, BA'08, MA'11

Follow @norm on Twitter and you’ll find out he’s a defender of Toronto; Drake’s self-proclaimed guardian angel; Mrs. Kelly’s favourite son; and not related to American R&B singer R. Kelly. He also really wants to know why some of you keep calling him ‘dad.’

But this is only a social sampling of @norm, the personal Twitter account of Western alumnus and City of Toronto Councilor Norm Kelly. There’s so much more than this to know about the man who last year, at the height of the city’s highly publicized Rob Ford saga, acted as deputy mayor.

Let’s start with that Twitter presence.