Toronto police are appealing for the public’s help in locating the husband of a high-profile Torontonian missing since this morning.
Forty-year-old Christopher Peloso, who is married to former provincial cabinet minister George Smitherman, was last seen Sunday morning at approximately 11 a.m. in the Bloor Street West and Lansdowne Avenue area.
Police are concerned for his safety.
“Freedom from depression has been elusive for Christopher and once again he is missing and we fear for his safety,” Smitherman wrote in a tweet sent out around 7:30 p.m.
Police say a foot search for Peloso is currently underway and a command post has been sent up on Wallace Avenue, near Lansdowne Avenue.
He is described as white, five-foot-eight, 140 pounds, with thinning light-brown hair, and a two-inch scar on his left temple.
He was last seen wearing a dark-blue bomber jacket, grey or blue denim pants and black dress boots.
In September, Peloso was found near railway tracks in the Lansdowne Avenue and Dupont Road area after disappearing two days earlier.
Peloso and Smitherman married in 2007.
Smitherman, a former deputy premier and health minister, was Ontario’s first openly gay MPP.
He quit provincial politics in 2010 and ran for mayor of Toronto, but finished second to Rob Ford.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-11000 or Crime Stoppers at 416-222-TIPS (8477).
