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Agree with your assessment. Morneau wins on the strength of the Trudeau brand, not as a Bay St. guy from Moore Park married to a McCain. I believe that Morneau wanted to run in DVW initially, but Rob Oliphant wanted his old seat back.

Further to the point, remember which Liberals represented Danforth and Trinity-Spadina then - Dennis Mills and Tony Ianno. Both were terrible fits for the "creative class" professional demographic of the Annex and Riverdale.

Another thing - Justin Trudeau is more "woke" than Chretien or Martin were (or Mulcair for that matter, whose style appealed neither to the "creative class" types in the Annex or the old blue collar union vote in places like Sudbury).

Meanwhile, the gentrification moving politics more toward the liberal center argument holds up more in the East End (more homeowner-dominated). Nowadays Beaches is basically a Liberal riding that goes NDP during swings, it used to be in the top tier.

Parkdale-High Park and Davenport, the epicenters of creative class hipsterdom in Toronto, have definitely shifted leftward over the past 15-20 years. On the other hand, some NDPers I know blame "gentrification" for the losses of Peggy Nash, Andrew Cash and Craig Scott in 2015 (i.e. these...

For some reason, the "municipal left" does better in the west end. This even was the case with a North Toronto liberal rather than a west end socdem pol holding the progressive banner.

Sure seems to be a lot of ONDP '18/John Tory '18 voters in the east end.

Not surprisingly, western University-Rosedale, southern Davenport and eastern Parkdale-High Park did not vote for Tory.

Poll-by-poll results should be out soon. I suspect there will be a pretty contiguous "non-John Tory zone" running from roughly Kensington Market to Roncesvalles - i.e. where Olivia Chow won.

Maybe it's time to start a "ridiculous comments and claims made by MPPs" thread?

With fewer councillors and no Mammoliti, I suspect this won't be as active a thread as before.

John Tory is our Michael Bloomberg basically.

Was right about this though.

Way off. Almost embarrasingly so.

Re: Robinson/Burnside - if I was voting in DVW, I probably would have left the councillor blank.

Not only is Mike Colle a "relative of the incumbent" he was also the MPP for the area comprised of the exact same boundaries - and he only narrowly lost in June.

Interesting to see Pasternak behind, I would have thought he had an advantage given the mega-ward boundaries seemingly favor him. If Pasternak and Matlow both lose, there won't be a single Jewish city councillor in Toronto - when's the last time that was the case? Not that I think that's a...

That was very evident in the provincial election.

Who is going to be the "Rosedale candidate" in University-Rosedale? Anyone have a look at the signage there?