It's totally subjective as well. What is this based on? It's just one design/planning opinion made into an across the board policy. I can kind of understand where they're coming from in theory, but it has had many negative results in builds around the city.

Bradford is really giving "christ, what an asshole" vibes with this "captured by the NDP activist agenda" stuff. Pairing this way of talking with the peace sign in his name adds an extra layer lol. Peace, except for when I'm being a jerk. I am worried though that Chow diving right into the...

My worry is that Hunter running for personal career reasons without any chance to win will unnecessarily split away votes from other progressive candidates who are running to win. Hopefully we don't end up with a small % vote difference between a progressive or conservative mayor — in particular...

Definitely. Gotta be careful about it. If Saunders remains back further in the race that's one thing, but if he starts to become the default conservative option and grows beyond the low-10s in % that will completely change things. The variability in the polling is making it hard to get a sense...

People give the candidates a lot of shit (myself included) and to a large extent they deserve it. And while I do feel kind of in despair about the state of the city and our public representation and discourse, the possibility of either Chow, Bailão, or maybe Matlow as likely mayor is I have to...

Of all the candidates I feel like Matlow might have the most chance for debate boost (although hardly anyone watches mayoral debates) or for people to start to grow to know him over the course of the campaign. At this point he doesn't have that much city-wide public profile, but he's a pretty...

Polls are all over the place. Bailao's a contender to win or... at 5%??

I'd really love to see this space activated with a restaurant or similar usage with a patio,. I wish the townhouse development on the rest of the block was never built like it is. There should be retail/commercial/services/community spaces at ground level here and the design putting all the...

This is truly despicable nonsense: Does Mark Saunders have anything to campaign on besides fear and dishonest rhetoric? What are his plans for the city? Mark is really making a good case for why people don't trust cops.

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Neoliberals forgetting that public operation of society is even possible. /s I guess he just didn't pay attention to the details of what he's responding to condescendingly would be the charitable interpretation here. Or he's just taking a dishonest cheap shot and he knows there's a difference...

For vital transit and housing that's a totally different situation than a secret private sweetheart deal for the business buddies from an international corporation for a new completely unnecessary spa proposal on public land that destroys ecosystems and isn't well considered. A badly designed...

Yeah I agree with this. Right now the field is crowded and confusing with most of the candidates lacking widespread recognition. If Chow waits a bit to enter she gets to have her own news cycle about her entering the race, and maybe that + a strong launch offers her an opportunity to define...

Yeah that's possible, but it feels potentially unrealistic to me in two aspects: will Matlow become the standard-bearer for the "left" and will Saunders become the primary candidate on the "right"? I'm not sure I'd bet on either. On that subject of who is the conservative candidate, it's been...

I'm not sure he sees Matlow as the biggest threat to win, but I think it's highlighting Matlow because of Matlow's opposition to ever-increasing police funding combined with Matlow being a councillor, so Saunder's campaign paints him as one of the "insiders" (even though Matlow hasn't been on...

Mark Saunders begins his campaign by pretending he's not one of the "insiders" he's railing against (former chief of police, recent PC candidate, randomly being a special advisor making big $$$ on Ontario Place consulting for some reason, being the favoured mayoral candidate of the premier) and...

Bailao's is great. Direct. Gets in three significant major issues of the city adds to her image of being serious. Bradford's is adding onto the feeling that Bradford's campaign is all about branding Bradford as suddenly a man of action or whatever. Just sounds like an empty slogan if there's no...

This is much more in line with the kind of situation I was expecting vs. the previous poll that had Saunders so high and Bailao so low. Saunders being lower here is good for the city and good for the election I think. If Saunders is a threat to winning we'll just get stuck in strategic lesser...

The gutters around me are so full of garbage and natural detritus composting into dirt. There's now basically a permanent layer covering the sides of roads, especially on the side with parked cars for which the city seems to have no plan or intention of ever cleaning I guess. This is just the...

So basically we elect someone willing to raise taxes and other revenues or Doug will kick us down an austerity pit and the low tax mayor will stand there watching.