Who are these people? They supposedly worked for a Toronto police board member’s companies [Video]

Until recently, a black-and-white photo of a woman holding her face in her hands was used to depict Mary Ellen Steinam — also known as Ellen Steinam — across social media and on the website of a marketing company founded by Toronto Police Service Board member Nadine Spencer. 

Steinam worked as chief operating officer of Spencer’s company BrandEQ for more than a decade, according to her LinkedIn page. Her profile said she was based in New York and had previously held other prominent marketing jobs at Nestle and Saatchi & Saatchi as far back as 1994. 

On Facebook and X, she shared posts and photos of Spencer — cheering on her boss and BrandEQ. 

But despite Steinam’s online presence, it’s unclear if she actually exists.

A search of the LexisNexis database, which combs through 84 billion public records, found no record of anyone with either variation of Steinam’s name living …