Suck it Doug Ford
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Wow 37% of the vote is pretty impressive for the amount of candidates in the running. What was she running on?
Edit: All I can find is affordable housing. Smart and timely platform.
sanity.
A rare concept in today's age
Congrats Toronto! I'm jealous you guys got to actually vote in someone progressive (I'm from Ottawa and we recently voted to slightly lower property taxes over everything else)
Careful what you wish for. We voted in a progressive Gondek in Calgary and she and council sold us out to the Flames owners and otherwise has been mostly focused on virtue signalling instead of improving the city.
Im happy about this, but holy crap! Ana Baileo, last week she was polling at 13.5%. That was a huge jump.
I am also quite surprised, everything I saw suggested Chow was going to walk away with it. Which, I mean, she won still but I bet she'd like the results to be a bit closer to the polling.
I think it was the polling. Once it came down to the wire, a lot of anyone-but-Chow voters backed the person most likely to beat her.
It probably has to do with Tory's last-minute endorsement. Any poll that included him had him winning by a country mile.
It probably has to do with Tory's last-minute endorsement. Any poll that included him had him winning by a country mile.
Okay, so with the important question resolved, I'm wondering how many votes the dog got.
I think just under 600?
Interesting. Either Toronto has a lot of dog lovers, or more people than I would have expected latched onto the dog as the ultimate protest vote.
Congrats Toronto!
I have been confused by Calgary's mayor. She seemed the most progressive but ended up putting her one vote in (along with the rest of council) to cut a lot of social programs, virtue signals on the very far left, but gives into conservative crony lobbyists for things like buying an arena for someone else.
I wish election promises were legally binding.
It's always good to remember though, the mayor is more of a figure head. They can be a tie breaker in a vote but other than that they are simply higher profile than the other council members and have only one vote on council. Nothing can be changed without councils approval. The mayor's biggest power is to promote the city to attract more businesses, workers and tourists.
Olivia Chow and Doug Ford bout to face off
I'm far from progressive, and I kind of hate all of her other policy positions - but her housing approaches are at least novel. We have to try something
Shame Chloe Brown didn't win. I'm not Canadian, but I found her stuff online and it resonated.
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