This thread from Bailão started off good, I thought wow is she going to meaningfully reckon with the state of our finances and service levels. But then no, the last tweet reveals that it's all based on her campaign's ridiculous hope (uncertain to unlikely at best) to upload the highways that...

I feel like the reaction to Chow is perhaps a little more negative that she deserves, but I also understand it. I found her mayoral campaign to be very disappointing and do have a feeling of her being yesterday's candidate. And also worry about what her policy would be. But also at the same...

Maybe I'm overblowing this as an issue in my first reaction to it, but it seems to me that staff being directed by the Mayor's office to only provide information transparency requested by councillors if it paints things in a good light is very bad and compromises the entire apparatus of City...

Kinda a big boy for this part of the Entertainment District isn't it? I wonder if we'll be seeing more buildings in the area burst above the tabletop with new or revised proposals. Putting aside issues of quality of execution which plague this area in general (and the city), some more variation...

So does Saunders keep making Ontario Place "advising" money through the campaign or? I hope some journalists ask him on the campaign trail what he's been doing for this potentially pretty significant amount of money.

Not Matlow's biggest fan, but to me this is something to put on the resume as an asset. Nunziata has always been a terrible choice for speaker and I respect Matlow for recognizing that and not just voting yes for whatever appointments of the worst councillors on council that Tory put forward...

Looking forward to this one and hopeful that its approach to street-level turns out well! And with Rol San safely ensconced in a new location all is well. (Until that also becomes a development site.)

I've been in total despair about this Ontario Place situation knowing we had no leadership that could meaningfully stand up against it since John Tory seemed to not care at all and not even comment on it. But with a new mayor the dynamic here could change. Of course Toronto doesn't have much...

I think they have different purposes. The by-election thread would be better served I think to stay focused on discussion of the election and subjects connected to the election, whereas these "X Mayor's Toronto" threads often contain discussion of other city issues/events and aspects of the...

It all may be besides the point though because that patty video is just brutal and combined with his overt heel turn of cynical dishonesty against Bravo shows he has tremendously bad political instincts and he's done nothing but make himself unlikable in these past days. I don't see him becoming...

This is quite the piece of information and seems like walking right into a minefield to me and would be a problem for him setting policy around changes to development practices. How could he keep these things separate? Developers at Doug's table at the wedding, etc. is already an issue in the...

So Ainslie, Crawford, Fletcher, and Thompson voted with Holyday to prioritize funds away from transportation safety and towards special leaf collection for some very special homeowners? Unbelievable. These councillors act openly hostile to the public interest and safety in favour of a special...

Fully agreed, that along with his absolute negligence on road safety infrastructure are my two big issues with him, but his message above is still appreciated at this time and true.

I've had some frustration with Perks as the years have gone on, but wow is this ever straight facts and well expressed: Elsewhere Holyday, who our extremely full of good judgement Mayor thought was deserving of being a Deputy Mayor, is continuing his mission to be the worst possible person —...

Councillor Bravo has what seems like a pretty reasonable proposal to set up spaces for those that need shelter by not increasing the police budget as significantly and doing a pretty good job dealing with these shocked pikachu councillors. This podcast is going to be a bit of a headache for...

Reflecting on how John Tory resists working with responsible, reasonable progressive councillors (despite claiming he's Mr. Moderate) but spent years, terms, playing nice with and indulging Holyday, putting him in positions, and even making him a Deputy Mayor for I'm not sure what — for doing...

1) People and especially our leaders should have standards of not working with and giving powerful influence on our society to overtly and deliberately awful, toxic people. I guess you don't agree, but that's how I think people should try to be in society. Ethical standards for our society's...

Just wanted to note the sad alignment of Ana Bailão with Nick Kouvalis: https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2023/02/14/doug-fords-advisers-know-who-theyd-like-to-replace-john-tory.html Bailão was my councillor and she got some good stuff done for the city despite some issues I had...

John Tory's mission to restore normalcy to City Hall is going well.

I'm seeing reports that Freeland has not said this. Haven't seen the original clip from Power and Politics yet.