Outside of Politics
Chow was an artist before becoming a politician and still paints occasionally. She studied fine arts at the Ontario College of Art and philosophy and religion at the University of Toronto. In 1979, she graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in fine art from the University of Guelph.
Chow championed the novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood in the 2005 edition of Canada Reads.
In 2005, she revealed that she had undergone surgery for thyroid cancer in 2004. She decided to speak out in order to raise awareness of the disease.
on August the 20th 2012 she unveiled a statue dedicated to her husband Jack Layton, tributes to him were written in English, Chinese and French. The statue is located in Harbour Square Park East.
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“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)