Voters in Hampstead were heading to the polls on Sunday in what was shaping up as a feisty rematch between firebrand incumbent Jeremy Levi and former mayor Bill Steinberg after a sometimes ugly campaign during which the two men traded accusations of corruption and misspending against each other.

Levi, a 41-year-old accountant by profession and the father of six young children, beat Steinberg by only 222 votes in 2021, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Steinberg, who had been mayor for 16 years, was unseated following his attempts two years earlier to push through a controversial 10-storey luxury highrise on Côte St-Luc Rd. that would have boosted tax revenues but would also have led to the demolition of two apartment buildings offering more modest rents.

In September, Steinberg ann

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