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I sometimes stare out of the window and wonder idly what a Rossi mayoralty would look like. Then I catch myself doing it, and shudder.

Look up. Look way up ^^^^^ :)

The silence from the Chow campaign suggests they are not giving these polls the dignity and oxygen of a response. There's still three months to go.

Frankie Graves, Toronto needs you!

The man himself (Dimitri who ran the poll) emailed me back, and said that only landlines were used in his poll. He is of the mind that you can get perfectly accurate results that way. Uh huh.

I have sent an email to Dimitri asking if he only used landlines. If he did, then this that last Forum poll, redux.

http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/toronto2014election/2014/07/31/conservative_pollster_has_tory_ahead_in_toronto_mayoral_race_ford_back_in_third.html Two polls which aren't worth the paper they're written on don't matter that much. I think this is an attempt to create momentum behind Tory...

If even the Sun has dismissed the idea (like whacking cyclists, hate enlarging council bureaucracy), then DMW is playing to the crowd, as this would easily get shot down in council. This, from the towering genius who wanted to rename Union station, and chose to go to war over pink umbrellas. Yeesh.

Whenever that is uttered, people often edit things out like the Orangemen riots, the Christie Pits riot, the bathhouse raids, to mention only a few lowlights from the city's history. 'Toronto the Good' is an image, a marketing ploy, almost. Yes, there is much to celebrate in Toronto, but also a...

That was very good. Of course the papers who publish these polls aren't too interested in criticism of said polls. You mean such-and-so paper isn't a journal of record? Cripes!

I hope that Soknacki, in the event that he does not win, is consulted in some capacity by whoever wins. That brain power needs to be harnessed for the good of the city.

I can see Prue possibly running for a council seat, but not for anything else. I venture to say he has very low name recognition outside of East York. The Forum poll that caused all this talk of Chow "faltering" comes from the same pollster that declared the recent Ontario election too close...

Boystown? I've never heard it called that before. Looking online, I see it used in connection with Church and Wellesley, but it's not that common. You say Boystown to me, and I think of Chicago. I think potential confusion is why Church and Wellesley/The Gay Village are much more commonly used...

Informer? If only someone would.

The former. Two other TBMs are digging east toward Yonge.

They are. They wouldn't look out of place in Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis'. The Russian LRT looks more 'Blade Runner'.

From Chow's response to the Toronto Taxpayers Coalition questionnaire: 3) What is your stance on introducing new dedicated taxes to pay for transit expansion in this City? I'd welcome provincial or federal moves to dedicate some of the taxes our city pays for our pressing needs, which we share...

The $8 Billion has always been controlled by the province. The city was welcome to provide its input, but the province has always had the final say. It is not like a big pile of cash that the city could spend on anything it liked.

Soknacki would make a fine councillor and also a thoughtful voice on council. But I feel he's over-reaching by running for mayor. Along with good ideas and a reasonable viewpoint on most things, people look for someone who makes them like them, and makes them feel better for liking them...

In a word, yes. Thinking of yourself as progressive means you can cast yourself in the same cast as Gandhi, Mandela, MLK, Harvey Milk, and so on, who all make us feel good about ourselves for liking. Being a conservative these days involves either being a faux-progressive or an unrepentant...