Yes you're right. I should have said "now that he has said he was going to resign." But this kind of technicality doesn't change the ethical question for me. He said he was going to resign due to bad judgement. To break that is to me profoundly dishonest and dishonourable. And will undermine...

Freeland encouraging Tory to unresign is really wrong to me (same with Ford but I expect it from him)... maybe she's used to realpolitik with international leaders, but encouraging the mayor of Toronto to go back on his word and cling to power after he already said he was resigning due to bad...

Fair point. I worded that strongly declaring it like that and maybe I am exhibiting those tendencies. But if Gil really thinks streetcars belong in a museum and that would impact his policy in a way that would move us away from streetcars and doesn't show that he can engage with the issue and...

It's not "infighting" and a "purity test" to have meaningful disagreements and questions about his policy on major infrastructure issues. And if Gil wants to be mayor he needs to approach policy seriously and not just with hot take tweets and fired from the hip opinions. Someone can't expect to...

Yeah there really was no candidate from the traditional Toronto left organizers last election. Penelosa is more of a free agent who is progressive and appeals to similar voters, but he's not of the city's left establishment or a candidate who was running with the NDP organizing structure behind...

Since I'm pushing this streetcar/Penalosa issue pretty hard, I wanted to share that I found this pro-streetcar tweet from him in the past few days which advocates for improving how they work with the street, which is great and a very positive indication! I think Gil just needs to get ahead of...

RE: Tory staying on through the budget meeting on Wednesday, would it be possible for councillors to deny quorum? This could be explosive. If Tory starts vetoing things and using his strong mayor powers after he has himself already said he's resigning (due to bad judgement) that's going to be...

Gil also didn't run a serious campaign last time. He didn't have a campaign apparatus, no signs, and spent most of his time jogging around and posting tweets. That's not a viable way to get to the Mayor's office. Last time that was fine because everyone knew he wouldn't win including Gil himself...

Some threads I found of HousingNowTO trying to engage substantively with Gil on his housing policy and funding:

Many and this could be one of them. I'm not saying let's not discuss issues related to the election or issues people want to see as an election issue, I just think we're just getting off into the weeds here on this topic in a way that doesn't really relate to the election and could benefit from...

Can we get a separate thread for specifics of the discussion of speed cameras and speed tickets and associated topics? This is a major election for Toronto with lots to talk about and half the posts in this thread it seems are diversions on speeds cameras and road speed (important topics, but...

Ben Spurr on Twitter: I've thought that Bravo might have mayoral aspirations at some point after a term or more as a councillor, but this would certainly be an accelerated schedule. She crushed the Davenport race — would she be able to build a city-wide voting base, or run up the score in...

This is pure speculation but I've been thinking that Layton's life plan was to take some time off with the family before entering back into politics and running for Mayor or another office at a better time (both for him and politically) and while he wished he could have taken that route this...

UT should add a "Days since last Jesse Ketchum shadowing post" counter on the top of the website.

The City setting height peaks like that seems somewhat arbitrary and aesthetic to me. I mean why not have a height peak here if it doesn't impact parks or other aspects of the public realm or other nearby areas in a negative way? There's already skyscrapers on either side and for blocks all...

Would be fun to see a narrow spire here that casts minimal shadow but surpasses the height of The One... 😄 Though I doubt that will happen, something in the range between 1Bloor East and The One seems pretty possible.

This building's construction and seeing its presence on the skyline while walking around to me really underlines the absurdity of the fact that Crossways were the only tall buildings in the area until now. This is on top of multiple transit lines at a major interchange and we haven't built...

I 100 years people are going to be like "Interesting fact: the base of this building is not actually a historic warehouse turned into a facade as was common practice at the time, but rather a surprisingly well designed and constructed new build from Toronto's early-21st century building boom."

Looking at the site context massing diagram in the post above, I really don't see why this is too tall or not contextually appropriate besides the City says the words it's too tall and not contextually appropriate. But that paragraph doesn't have any actual reasons in it — it just says it's too...

To be fair the reason people want the height increase isn't because of the public wants to be or would be in the penthouse. People want cool tall buildings that can be seen from all across the city and appreciated in that way from many places by many people as a dramatic peak on the skyline...