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Who will win the Toronto mayoral election? … latest poll results

Saunders is depicted as violent black man wielding Ice Picks, Chow still in the lead.

If Olivia Chow is elected Mayor then Toronto could be expelled to Communist China … so there’s that https://t.co/uLKPg5XftN

— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) May 9, 2023

Olivia Chow leads in the latest Toronto mayoral election polls

Olivia Chow is still the front-runner in three recent polls as more voters start to solidify their choice for the next mayor of Toronto.

A Liaison poll of 1,257 Torontonians has Chow on a small but steady uptick since the start of the race, reaching 18 per cent if the election were held today. Mark Saunders — who has pitted his right-leaning campaign against left-leaning Chow — is tied in second with Josh Matlow at 11 per cent. Matlow and Chow are expected to vie for the same pool of progressive votes.

Stupid reigns in TO. Please Lord Smite Toronto As You Did Sodom & Gomorrah!

According to the pollster’s survey of 1,056 people, Chow holds 22 per cent of the vote, followed by Ana Bailao and Josh Matlow at 11 per cent each.

Crucially, 30 per cent of polled respondents are still undecided on how they’ll vote on Election Day.

So far no one on the right appears to have much traction if the polls and media are to be trusted.

Everything will get worse if Chowcescu is elected. 

You think taxes, crime, homelessness and the war on the car and all your other freedoms are bad now?

Just wait until you’ve had a taste of Chow.

Residents and businesses in the heart of downtown Toronto are bracing for disruption as a years-long road closure begins.

Starting on Monday, May 1, a major portion of Queen Street will be closed to all traffic while construction takes place on a new subway station.

“It’s definitely a sense of anxiousness. There’s still a lot of uncertainty,” Meg Marshall, manager of the Queen Street West BIA, told Global News.

A busy downtown intersection is closing Monday for nearly half a decade as construction on Toronto’s newest subway line begins in earnest.

Starting May 1, Queen Street between Bay and Victoria Streets will be shut to cars for four and a half years in what will be one of the biggest disruption the city will face in the construction of the Ontario Line subway. Work on the line began last March, but will heat up this summer with the Queen Street closure and other projects.

The way Toronto is going I’m not sure they will need this line.

It felt this week like candidates in Toronto’s race to pick a new mayor started to use their elbows a little bit more.

Multiple candidates issued statements and tweets taking shots at their rivals.

Ana Bailao called former council colleague Josh Matlow, a “plagiarist,” accusing him of cribbing his platform from former candidate Gil Penalosa. Mark Saunders also took a swipe at Matlow, saying during an announcement “I usually chuckle when I hear candidates like Josh Matlow chastise people for using cars.”

Will we look back and say that this election marked the end of Toronto? I suspect so if a left leaning mayor is elected.

A new poll puts Olivia Chow in the lead among early contenders in the upcoming Toronto byelection to choose a new mayor.

The Mainstreet Research poll released Friday asked voters who they would choose if an election were held today. It found that among decided voters, 26 per cent said they would vote for Chow, while 21 per cent said they would vote for Ana Bailao, 14 per cent for Josh Matlow and 11 per cent for Mark Saunders.

Toronto mayoral candidate Anthony Furey says if elected, he’ll launch a $1-billion lawsuit against Metrolinx over the Eglinton Crosstown LRT delays.

“It’s been over a decade of this and the people of Toronto have politely accepted delay after delay, poor communication, gridlock and harm to businesses along a major street,” Furey said in a statement Friday.

Seven months after Metrolinx announced the Eglinton Crosstown LRT would once again fail to meet its target date, the public knows virtually nothing about how the project is going or when the line will finally open.

Asked by the Star this week when the light rail transit line, which has been under construction since 2011 and was once expected to be complete in 2020, might be done, Metrolinx said it did not have new details to offer, and put the blame on Crosslinx Transit Solutions (CTS), the construction consortium building the project.

A black hole.

John Tory, who vacated Toronto’s mayor’s office in February after admitting an extramarital affair with a staffer, faced almost comically little resistance in twice winning re-election. His second-place opponents managed 24 per cent and 18 per cent in 2018 and 2022, respectively. But now, just six months later, everyone and his sister is running in for mayor in the June 26 by-election, including several familiar names. The more the merrier: this city could use all the fresh blood and ideas it can find. In practice, alas, it’s a tepid mess — both in form and in content.

A new poll by Keep Toronto Moving, a grassroots organization looking at transportation solutions, finds 63% of Torontonians want the next mayor to evaluate bike lanes with 84% wanting that to happen every two to three years.

Another 64% of Torontonians agree that dedicated bike lanes should be moved off major roadways to have less of an impact on congestion and local businesses.

Bike lane outside my condo, rarely used any season.