“Toronto – Canada’s version of a Democrat run city”

Former NDP MP Olivia Chow is entering the final weeks of Toronto’s mayoral campaign the undisputed front-runner, according to a Forum Research poll for the Toronto Star.

“Chow’s lead remains untouchable,” after seven weeks of the 12-week campaign, said Forum president Lorne Bozinoff. “Other candidates have yet to connect strongly with voters.”

Despite her two per cent dip from a Forum poll a week earlier, support for Chow remains nearly triple that of her nearest rivals, according to the new poll.

Bear in mind that the last go round Chow’s “unassailable” lead crashed and burned as Toronto woke up to the communist horror the city faced.

The Star touted polls that had George Smitherman, perhaps the most vile candidate ever, running neck and neck with Rob Ford who won by a huge margin.

Still this is not a good sign, the right simply is not going to get behind Saunder’s just because he is Doug Ford’s choice. He was colourless as Police Chief and remains unknowable and face it the right has grown suspicious of Doug Ford.

I fully expect Toronto to be worse off in all things should Chow be elected, communism doesn’t work, never has.

Recently, on a Star This Matters podcast panel of columnists, I asked my colleague Shawn Micallef to sum up the state of this election in one sentence: “Broken city, gotta fix it,” he said.

We on the panel nodded, and I bet a bunch of you are as well. The list of accumulating problems is well-known and feels sky-high: the rent is too damn high, the roads are jammed and potholed, transit service is being cut, stuff like garbage bins and street bollards are falling apart, fear of crime is way up, homeless people are sleeping in parks because there’s no room in shelters, and the price of food is through the roof. Just for starters. Early park restroom openings aside, the picture hasn’t gotten any rosier since I asked during the fall election campaign “Toronto, can’t we do better?”

If this comes true Toronto is Toast …

Most Torontonians want a progressive mayor, opinion surveys suggest

Torontonians appear eager to elect a progressive mayor after 13 years of rule from the political centre and right, according to multiple opinion polls.

While results from different firms have varied since April, they all show the most left-leaning prominent candidates — former NDP MP Olivia Chow and City Councillor Josh Matlow — with combined support significantly higher than that of rivals on the political right.

Olivia Chow remains the front-runner in the race for Toronto mayor, but another candidate is gaining support, according to a new poll.

A Mainstreet Research survey released on Friday finds that Chow is still the top choice among decided voters to take on the city’s top job, with 30 per cent support.

She is followed by Ana Bailao with 21 per cent support, up six percentage points from last week’s poll.

I hope for all our sake that people are waking up to the fact that Chow is a stupid commie unworthy of public office. In her first go round Chow saw her early “overwhelming” poll leads dry up faster than the handiwipes at the Velvet Touch.

The irony was so rich, it would be lost on most people who serve and work at City Hall.

There was mayoral candidate Anthony Furey set up at Nathan Phillips Square, ready to make a campaign announcement that he, if elected, would hire more police to help combat the city’s violent street crime when the hammer and rules came down.

This is a perfect snapshot of Toronto. If Chowcescu wins it will get much worse.

Toronto mayoral candidate Anthony Furey has promised to hire 500 new police officers to help protect scared citizens in what has become a very dangerous city.

“People are telling me they are scared to come downtown to a show or a game or have their kids ride the TTC,” Furey said Tuesday. “It can’t stay like this.”

If something doesn’t happen soon, Olivia Chow will be the next mayor of Toronto. Two polls that came out Monday morning showing Chow with more than 30% of voter support mirror other ones putting her well out in front of her competitors.

Saunders is uninspiring. Furey would be fine but he has little traction assuming the polls are “reliable.”

Candidates concentrate fire on front-runner Chow in first major debate of Toronto mayoral race

Olivia Chow found herself the target of most of the firepower in the first major debate of the Toronto mayoral race Monday.

The debate, hosted by the Daily Bread Food Bank and moderated by journalist Maggie John, focused on affordability, food insecurity and poverty.

How does a foodbank host a debate?

I may vote for Kevin.

Man jumps on stage during Toronto mayor debate, screaming and yelling, rips down the curtain as he’s dragged away.

Does this city have a mental health and crime problem? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/L6fGOkbNCG

— ƒανєℓα ∂ωєℓℓα 🔊👏🤤 (@favela_dwella) May 16, 2023

San Francisco Here We Come!

The Toronto mayoral by-election may either be the best thing to happen to the city in ages, or the worst. The city appears to be at a crossroads and in desperate need of a change in direction.

Decades of steady growth and improvements in nearly all areas launched Toronto into a rarefied tier of world cities. Then, the pandemic. Toronto came out the other side not just worse for wear, but in a cacophony of crises: housing affordability, transit, a downtown core in economic decline.

It doesn’t help that Ford is “not endorsing” a candidate few seem to want:

After pledging to stay out of Toronto mayor election, Doug Ford jumps in (again)

Premier Doug Ford has yet again weighed in on the Toronto mayoral race, despite previously saying he was staying out of the election.

Ford delivered his most pointed endorsement to date for the candidacy of Mark Saunders, the former Toronto police chief and failed 2022 provincial Progressive Conservative candidate.

“We need someone that has experience dealing with crime,” Ford said Friday when asked about the city’s mayoral byelection during an unrelated news conference in Oshawa.

I remember packing my best approximation of business casual outfits, but I don’t recall my last breath of the crisp, outdoor air. I didn’t think to savour it.

In October 2012, the Star sent me to live in the PATH for two weeks to see what kind of life I could lead in the underground retail world that supported Toronto’s office towers.

Every morning, the pantsuit army showed up in endless GO train waves, flowing north as a pack, unimpeded through food courts, shops and marble lobbies, up elevators, into drop-ceilinged offices. I learned to walk with the currents. I existed in a corporate haze.

This does not bode well for Toronto, and the article makes no mention of the insane cost of shelter as a barrier preventing recovery to pre-pandemic levels. No People No Path.

Toronto is so screwed … Here’s why Toronto’s bloated race for mayor is bad for democracy

Democracy is a good thing.

But too much of a good thing can be bad news.

Torontonians are waking up to an election campaign overrun by more than 100 candidates running for mayor after Friday’s final deadline for nominations.

The more the merrier? Sadly, this 102-ring circus risks turning a serious race into a bad joke at the ballot box.

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!