The main burnt bridge that comes to mind is that he came out of the box early and endorsed Bailao for the mayoralty (before Chow entered the race)

The "dry goods" was the Golden Lion from 1867; and as you can see from the photo, 39-43 King E was the Toronto studio of Notman & Fraser ("Photographers To The Queen", as per the facade), so a pretty "illustrious" location (and it explains the glassy upper floors). It was demolished for the...

I did see a posting of her at Salsa on St Clair. So many festivals, so little time--or so *much* time, as these festivals aren't single-day events. Hard to see her, as mayor-elect, *not* going to a festival in a ward that just elected her--so, patience (I'd hope)

One thing that puzzled me is how Lyall Sanders wound up in the top tier of the bottom tier (i.e. next after Gong, and 2 1/2 times the next one down, Mammo)--the most "obvious" explanation has been a Sanders/Saunders confusion; yet I can't say that Saunders had enough support to back up that...

Well, yeah; many of them have been reconstituted into the open-air theatre at Guild Inn. (First time I ever saw an actual demolition photo of the old bank, though)

It's sort of like, people who tell those who post such statistical data, "Olivia Chow won, period, and that's all that matters", miss the point of election statistics completely

However, I *will* say that I noticed via Twitter a whole bunch of people defensively *responding* to a matter-of-fact, statistical-reportage "Bailao won on e-day, Chow won in the advance" post as if it *were* bait for the anti-Chow "advance voting is fake" crowd. Which suggests that there's a...

A mushy-middler like Bailao doesn't inspire it the way that a Ford-endorsed firebrand might. Which is why the main "rigged election" rhetoric is coming from Chris Sky way at the bottom--maybe he *really* wants the brownie points for finishing ahead of Bradford...

Which contradicts my earlier speculation that Bailao might have done better in the advance than all those non-Mainstreet pollsters suggested.

Well, let's put it straight. I was being sarcastic in suggesting a redo of the election. (The last significant example within the GTA that comes to mind was York North in 1990, which Maurizio Bevilacqua won by a landslide for the Libs after a disputed, teeter-totter knife-edge Lib vs PC result...

Well, Trump's asked for one; so, why not Gong. And he can present a petition from a whole bunch of school children: "We Want Gong!". And just to make it simple and economical, just make it Chow vs Gong, nobody else...

Kevin Clarke with funny money, more like. For all one knows, if he's up to demanding a recount, he's up to demanding the whole election be re-run.

Judging from his popularity with the kids, probably a million-billion-zillion to one. In that popular-with-the-kids light, Gong was truly the Roofi of the byelection.

Let's not forget that said delivery-deficiency also plagued Saunders--he was way too softspoken for the big he-man law-and-order guy DoFo tried to portray him as. Which only reinforced notions of him as a weak puppet. Incidentally, I haven't seen Mitzie Hunter discussed so much in these...

But while I can see the *generic* centre/right coalescing, I can *also* see Doug Ford offering his own monkey-wrench candidate anyway, a la Saunders. For you see, those first two names *could* galvanize a big tent--but unlike the very last name in that list, they wouldn't be "Doug's choice"...

Though I have to say that there has been a bit of a high-operating between-the-cracks stealth-subversive "McLuhanist" element to Etobicoke over the years--the home of Elwy Yost, the place where Barry Duncan pioneered media studies and media literacy education in the 70s, subsequently the home of...

Eeesh. I shoulda known this kind of tinpot thing would happen. Squash him like a bug, but fast. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/06/27/fringe-toronto-mayoral-candidate-gong-demands-recount/ And, just as I feared, he's a hit with the meme-a-riffic kiddies...

I like to refer to her as "Tennessee Tuxedo". Y'know, CCC ;-)

But *mayorally*, it has *already* been "most left" for several elections running. It just that on a *council* level, it projected the illusion of being "centre" due to Ana's incumbency and all-but-acclamation in '18 (which *lots* of people have read *way too much* into). Toronto-Danforth...

But also, beyond all of that, an impediment to "freedom". That is, they think of it as a plot to *literally* tether everyone to within a 15 minute radius and punish them if they stray beyond. Why do they think that? Because the Internets told them, and because they're stupid, that's why.