I doubt it. MacLeod's personal issues (depression et al) have been known for some time, and perhaps factored into her being dropped from cabinet (as well as her poor showing last time around). That is, she had "voluntary last term in office" written all over her...

Even a Ford replacement's no guarantee of enduring PC rule even in the event that the Libs & NDP *don't* merge. Indeed, the irony is that the opposition could be *strengthened* in DoFo's absence--not out of PC ineptitude per se, but simply out of the likelihood that his replacement will (knock...

Note the quote in an above post: "When you toss in several years of taxpayer funded election campaign advertising exclusively for the OPC with restrictions on every other party, it would appear so." Essentially, that's the DoFo modus operandi: deny the opposition any oxygen, or gaslight it...

Keep in mind that today's TC lacks the NDP-black-hole Rosedale parts it had pre-'18--which was a big reason why it kept going Liberal. And in general when it comes to the Libs, it's simply because they were, post-Rae-implosion, the "left" default wherever the NDP didn't have a head start. So...

Citywide, but not in Davenport. If she wants to be a giant-killer, why not run against Mikey Ford.

And looking at that map, a lot of those seat projections are simply...straight projections, extrapolating directly from the previous results. Which is what gives this crude form of stats-based election projectioneering an overtone of the pseudo-scientific...

Come to think of it, I wonder if he's still teed off over how his father was robbed of a seat through provincial boundary changes in 1999. (Or just generally, "folks" who are "WTF?!? We're in a different riding now?!?" whenever redistribution arrives)

I don't think he understands population growth and population shifts, or how and why riding boundaries are "fluid" in a way that municipal boundaries aren't.

Yeah, ironically, new boundaries would have *helped* him, unless it's some kind of "Crombieburbia" phenomenon he fears. So, w/no change whatsoever, we might have, within a decade, monster electorates akin to some of those in outer Metro Toronto in the 1960s...

Well, as I've said, this is all ramping up to a "you can't save it because it's gone, lol" conclusion

Whatever the severity of the issues at hand, Doug Ford's "you'll fall off your chair" rhetoric re what ails the OSC is nothing more than carny talk. It's like a computer guy saying "you'll fall off your chair" re whatever viruses might be floating within your computer, regardless of the fact...

Doug's purple prose on the state of the OSC befits his architectural taste, if we take his new cottage as proof (and it *really* looks like it was designed by one of his son-in-laws or daughters' beaus: "who needs architects, you can do anything with CAD programming these days")

Except that we're dealing with a two-round system, versus a single-round FPTP system. And in France's system, it was the second round of voting that allowed such decisions to be made, based upon the results of the first round--either automatically in the case of the top 2 finishers, or by way...

And to repeat: the primary problem with said solution is that the main building is the part where the original Moriyama scheme has been most effaced, thanks to the 90s+ alterations (including the OmniMAX). And whether one likes it or not, this has played out as a heritage-centric argument with...

Compounding everything here: Raymond Moriyama's widow died a day after the closure https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/theglobeandmail/name/sachiko-moriyama-obituary?id=55456962

I adore seeing Foresters/MONY in their original splendour as well--before their recladding and/or condo conversion. I will say this, though: functionally speaking, the front building always felt like an overscaled, glorified ticket booth, so I can understand why *it* was the element earmarked...

And ironically, "the Main building up top" is the part which, thanks to its IMAX-centric 90s alterations, has the *least* Moriyama-era architectural integrity intact. IOW this is the OSC equivalent of regarding the Bud Stage as the only "incoming" part of Ontario Place with any as-is "value"...

And she's the provincial counterpart to Pierre Poilievre, yet.

And you know what my present hunch is? That the whole spin about how "nobody likes Brutalism" (needless to say, implicitly or explicitly advanced by bad actors on the right as well as the Heather Mallicks on the left) is a smokescreen. Because as I said, the real mass instinct might be more...

And I think that's where you'll find "horseshoe theory" on the part of the so-called "left" who opts to side with, or at least burnish the case for, DoFo's OSC scheme: some notion of "people don't like Brutalism". That is, they're already indisposed to the notion that there's any architecture...