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Who gets your vote for Mayor of Toronto?

  • Ana Bailao

    Votes: 18 16.4%

  • Brad Bradford

    Votes: 3 2.7%

  • Olivia Chow

    Votes: 58 52.7%

  • Mitzie Hunter

    Votes: 2 1.8%

  • Josh Matlow

    Votes: 20 18.2%

  • Mark Saunders

    Votes: 4 3.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 5 4.5%
  • Total voters
    110
  • Poll closed .
W. K. Lis said:
... the Thunder Bay "name" referendum.
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This is getting a little off-topic and before I was old enough to know about it, but I recall my high school history teacher saying that the Conservative-leaning riding (York-Simcoe) may have unwittingly elected a Liberal, John Roberts, in the 1968 federal election. John Robarts was then the Conservative premier of Ontario, and at the time federal election ballots listed candidates only by their names, and not a party affiliation.
 
SubHuman said:
This is getting a little off-topic and before I was old enough to know about it, but I recall my high school history teacher saying that the Conservative-leaning riding (York-Simcoe) may have unwittingly elected a Liberal, John Roberts, in the 1968 federal election. John Robarts was then the Conservative premier of Ontario, and at the time federal election ballots listed candidates only by their names, and not a party affiliation.
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Similar to why Michael Douglas Aldo Ford Stirp changed his name to Michael Douglas Ford. Also why he won his city council seat, and why he is now a MPP. Name recognition.
 
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W. K. Lis said:
Similar to why Michael Douglas Aldo Ford Stirp changed his name to Michael Douglas Ford. Also why he won his city council seat, and why he is now a MPP. Name recognition.
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The PCPO under Ford ran Mike Harris Jr. (yes, son of *that* Mike Harris) against incumbent Michael Harris (no relation, turfed former PCPO caucus member) in Kitchener-Conostoga in 2018. I'm sure it's purely coincidental that Ford decided that Jr. should run in that riding. Completely coincidental.
 
I had an Olivia Chow canvasser at my door (I'm in Parkdale High Park). She seemed quite polished so I imagine she was a paid canvasser, but didn't ask. Anyone have any canvassers or leaflets at their door yet?
 
christiesplits said:
I had an Olivia Chow canvasser at my door (I'm in Parkdale High Park). She seemed quite polished so I imagine she was a paid canvasser, but didn't ask. Anyone have any canvassers or leaflets at their door yet?
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Saw a discarded Bailao leaflet at Donlands Station. The only physical evidence of an election I’ve seen.
 
I've seen a social-media-posted Chris Saccoccia election sign. If there's *anyone* I'd imagine illegally putting up signs early, it's him.
 
My current order of preference:

Matlow
Bailao
Chow

They're close together for me at this point, so we'll see how the campaign develops for me to solidify my backing of any one of them. One thing is certain however: I want a left wing mayor, and whoever is in the best position to deliver that on voting day is likely who I'll support. I'm exhausted of visionless, cheap conservatives holding Toronto back.
 
Bayer said:
Chow is proposing to build a busway in Scarborough on the RT corridor and to pay for it by cancelling the East Gardiner rehabilitation et replacing it with an at-grade boulevard between Cherry St. and the DVP.
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I question her financial assumptions here, absent further evidence.

I favour the boulevard option; I think the province should pay for a busway; and one should probably get done either way. Steve Munro did a piece the other day on the busway vs on-street bus plan for the SRT replacement and described staff's report/answers as misleading, and I would tend to concur.

But I still don't like what feels like stick-your-finger-in-the-air, by the seat of one's pants public policy.
 
Bayer said:
Chow is proposing to build a busway in Scarborough on the RT corridor and to pay for it by cancelling the East Gardiner rehabilitation et replacing it with an at-grade boulevard between Cherry St. and the DVP.
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Will be "vetoed" by Premier Doug Ford, because that would fall into his "vision" for the Greater Toronto Area.
 
I guess she didn't learn the last time she tried to make busses a key part of her transit policy. Busway or not.
 
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