All I know is that the bill for the election should be sent to Tory and his secret lover. As for the candidates, Toronto will get a mayor it deserves.
Toronto Mayoral Candidates
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My hope is that we don't get a lefty who will turn Toronto into another Chicago and/or Seattle and/or L.A. and/or San Francisco and/or Portland.
Your rightie mayors and councilors have already achieved your fear since they have been the ones in power and the ones calling the shots since 2010.
Bailao and Bradford are in the pockets of developers now, while Saunders always has been.
All three, were Tory lap puppies too.
Makes the choice much easier now. seeing that Bailao, Bradford and Saunders are comprised by their ties with developers and will not really be serving the people of Toronto unequivocally.
We've had right wingers for more then a decade and we all agree the city is worse now.
Time for a change.
Everytime i Hear Rob Davis being interviewed i'm kinda liking him more .
Seems to be level headed
www.robdavis.ca
Seems to be level headed
Rob Davis for Mayor
Safer. Cleaner. Kinder. Find out why thousands of Toronto residents think we can build A Better Toronto for All.
www.robdavis.ca
"Safer. Cleaner. Kinder"?Everytime i Hear Rob Davis being interviewed i'm kinda liking him more .
Seems to be level headed
Rob Davis for Mayor
Safer. Cleaner. Kinder. Find out why thousands of Toronto residents think we can build A Better Toronto for All.
How? With what resources? Who will pay?
Heard a report on the radio that said the amount of votes needed to win was in the neighbourhood of only 150000 given the split and typical low voter turnout.
Don't worry Toronto, Olivia Chow to the rescue. (Sarcasm)
Which Toronto mayoral candidates are targeting developers for donations? | The Star
"Some prominent Toronto mayoral candidates, including city council’s current housing and planning chair, are holding campaign events aimed at raising money from developers.
Mayoral candidates asking deep-pocketed homebuilders for campaign donations is not new. However, political observers say large-scale events hosted for municipal candidates by developers — common in provincial politics — have until now been a rarity.
Coun. Brad Bradford, the housing chair, is appearing Monday evening at a dinner hosted by Al Libfeld, co-founder and president of Pickering-based Tribute Communities, which has multiple condominium projects in Toronto.
Invitees are told that, for donations ranging from $1,100 to $2,500, they’ll have a chance to asked Bradford about “his vision for solving problems that need fixing in Toronto,” and learn how they can support his campaign for the June 26 byelection.
Ana Bailão, a former city councillor and city housing advocate who briefly worked for developer Dream Unlimited before resigning to run in the race to replace John Tory as mayor, is having a developer-focused fundraiser on May 10.
An invitation to share cocktails at Acqua Dolce Supper Club at Exhibition Place, obtained by the Star, states the minimum donation is $1,000 and the maximum is $2,500, a portion of which is rebated by the city under election donation rules.
The event will be hosted by Fred Dominelli, a former city councillor and wealthy landowner, and Matt Young, chief executive of Republic Developments which, according to its website, has seven condo projects ongoing in Toronto.
Mark Saunders, the former police chief also running for mayor, held a fundraiser last Wednesday at Posticino restaurant on the Queensway in Etobicoke.
While not a developer-only event, some people from the industry attended including Tony Miele, a development consultant and chair of the Ontario Progressive Conservative party’s fundraising arm.
Two other prominent mayoral candidates, Coun. Josh Matlow and Liberal MPP Mitzie Hunter, said they will not hold developer-focused events.
In a 2021 report, housing advocacy group ACORN said 34 per cent of campaign contributions in Toronto’s 2018 civic election came from people with ties to the development industry, and “many important decisions on the right to housing are being influenced by these donors, to the detriment of regular people.”
Alejandra Ruiz Vargas, an ACORN organizer, said Friday that mayoral candidates holding developer-focused events “is totally concerning. The worry is how much influence developers have on council members, we believe we can already see it in how they vote on things like affordable housing.”
46 candidates . Onlhy 3 of can get 10% of the vote today. 40 or more who cannot get 3% of the vote today. This shows you what total idiots the average politician is - running for the office of Mayer when they have less than 1/1 million chance of winning. What could their friends and significant other possibly think - obviously they are totally dishonest in not telling them that they are FOOLS for running.
Can you imagine the chaos if Josh IQlow were actually to win!? However, far more likely is the scenario where a bunch of right and centre-right candidates drop out at the last minute to prevent that.
