Dorothy Thomas, née Mikos was a Canadian politician who served on the Toronto City Council from 1972 to 1976 and from 1980 to 1985.
[1] As a resident of The Beaches, she became an activist in the campaign against the Scarborough Expressway,[1] and ran for municipal office in the 1972 election, defeating incumbent councillor Tom Wardle.
[1] She was one of several progressive reform candidates, including Elizabeth Eayrs, Michael Goldrick, Colin Vaughan, Dan Heap, Karl Jaffary, Reid Scott, John Sewell and Anne Johnston, who were elected alongside mayor David Crombie.
[2] Thomas and council colleague Dale Martin made national headlines in 1985 when, while attending a Federation of Canadian Municipalities conference in Calgary, they got into a war of words with Calgary mayor Ralph Klein about how ugly and poorly planned they perceived the city to be;[3] Thomas was also quoted as calling Calgary City Hall an "abomination".
[1] In 1996, she coauthored a report investigating problems with the city's process for licensing taxis.