grteOlivia Chow elected Toronto's next mayor in unexpectedly tight race | CBC News
StorksforlegsIm happy about this, but whoa! Ana Baileo, last week she was polling at 13.5%. That was a huge jump.
I am also quite surprised, everything I saw suggested Chow was going to walk away with it. I mean, she won still but I bet she’d like the polling to have been a bit more close to reality.
I think it was the polling. Once it came down to the wire, a lot of anyone-but-Chow voters backed the person most likely to beat her.
HoagieIt probably has to do with Tory’s last-minute endorsement. Any poll that included him had him winning by a country mile.
Suck it Doug Ford
NotSteve_Congrats Toronto! I'm jealous you guys got to actually vote in someone progressive (I'm from Ottawa and we recently voted to slightly lower property taxes over everything else)
neonfireShame Chloe Brown didn't win. I'm not Canadian, but I found her stuff online and it resonated.
Wow 37% of the vote is pretty impressive for the amount of candidates in the running. What was she running on?
sanity.
Okay, so with the important question resolved, I’m wondering how many votes the dog got.
MayI think just under 600?
Interesting. Either Toronto has a lot of dog lovers, or more people than I would have expected latched onto the dog as the ultimate protest vote.
Olivia Chow and Doug Ford bout to face off
I’m far from progressive, and I kind of hate all of her other policy positions - but her housing approaches are at least novel. We have to try something