[citation needed] He was previously a Canadian management consultant, and political strategist[2][3] From 2013 until 2021, he hosted a 2-hour radio talk show, Sunday afternoons, on CFRB in Toronto.
[3] He was a key player in the election of the late Rob Ford as mayor of Toronto,[4] and Patrick Brown as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
[20] After returning to Canada from two years consulting in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the UN[21] and World Bank Group,[20] Towhey was hired by Toronto City Councillor Rob Ford to help on his mayoral campaign.
[22] When Ford was elected in October 2010, Towhey was appointed his Director of Strategy & Policy, a role in which he was widely referred to by city councillors as the mayor’s "Rasputin.
[31] Mark Bonokoski, a veteran Sun writer, noted that Towhey complained his criticism of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer was "boring" and encouraged the columnist to do better.