Who is “Hurricane” Hazel, this centenarian who has been at the helm of Canada’s largest airport for 3 years?

Work is health. At least for Hazel McCallion. Far from sweetening strawberries from the top of its 101 springs, it’s just back for three more years at the helm of Toronto’s airport, the largest in the country. The information was monitored by our colleagues from RTL in columns guardian.

‘pragmatic populist’

Nicknamed “Hurricane Hazel,” this unparalleled woman lived several lives. A professional hockey player in her youth, she is famous in Canada for driving Mississauga, one of the country’s major economic centers, for more than 40 years.

“She was a pragmatic populist who had an amazing ability to take the pulse of the public,” Tom Urbaniak, a professor of political science at Cape Breton University and author of a book on McCallion, told the Guardian. “It’s a talent you never lose.”

He is still an advisor to the Prime Minister of Ontario

Until 2014, at the age of 93, Hazel McCallion resigned and retired from political life. But her sinking is undoubtedly a quiet retirement. In 2017, The inexhaustible unborn who already advises the Prime Minister of Ontario, is appointed to manage the Toronto airport.

Now 101 years old, she was confirmed in office for the next three years in early April. He was congratulated by Canadian Transport Minister Omar Al-Ghubra, praising his four decades of community service and his role as “steward and mentor to Canada’s largest airport”.

This isn’t the only job Hurricane Hazel still has. As the Guardian points out, Muammar, from He has a school, a library, a parade, a light rail project and a baseball team named after him, reappointed as Special Adviser to the University of Toronto. On this occasion, the school praised his “encyclopedic knowledge of politics”.