Ontario mayor faces lone challenger – the brother he doesn’t speak to

Charles Steele, left, and Bill Steele, right. ‘[My brother] thinks he’s entitled to become mayor. And his arrogance was bothering me,’ said Charles Steele, the challenger. Photograph: Supplied

When Charles Steele stepped on to a debate stage last week, it was the first time since the election campaign began that he’d confronted his lone opponent in a bitterly contested race to become mayor of a small Canadian town.

The encounter also marked the first time he’d spoken to his brother Bill – the incumbent mayor – in more than 30 years.