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Having a Toronto campus won't offer the drinking age of 18 which I thought was part of McGill's attraction for Ontario students.

Just noticed that Fusaro's at Richmond and Sherbourne has closed.

Huh? John Tory was a part of these negotiations between the city and the province? I can maybe understand that he might be giving advice to the province under the circumstances, but what does it mean to say that Tory is taking advice since he has no current political role? Or is this about when...

Any takeaways for those without access to linkedin?

The mayor says her office is making sure the city will cover the cost of the damage. https://bird.makeup/users/mayoroliviachow/statuses/1710651788079038599

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2023/10/05/foi-report-finds-no-proof-of-work-from-mark-saunders-as-ontario-place-special-advisor/ FOI finds no evidence that Mark Saunders provided any tangible special advice.

The integrity commissioner has found that Tory did break ethics rules. I am not surprised that there are no further consequences to recommend since he has already resigned as mayor, but I was a bit confused that apparently they give him credit for having reported the issue himself. They can't...

Holyday's motion failed (11/11 tie) because some councillors didn't want it referred to the province without a bit about ranked ballots. (Perks wanted to amend this motion and Holyday said get yer own.)

One in five residents strikes me as a high estimate. https://mastodon.social/@GraphicMatt/110742817192055381

Ranked ballots do not necessarily require that you rank every single candidate. And the idea that the city of Toronto might do so reminds me of the Saki story "Hermann the Irascible" where they "cleverly" punish suffragists by granting women the vote but also making their (only women's, not...

I figure if we knew which candidate he thinks lost votes to the fringe (or discouraged voter turnout), we would be reassured that Holyday's motivation is as wrongheaded as we are used to.

Stephen Holyday is bringing a motion to ask the province to raise the bar slightly so that not everyone and his dog can get on the ballot for mayor. It doesn't seem unreasonable to require more than 25 signatures...

Olivia Chow was on CBC radio this morning. I don't recall that she said anything especially revelatory but here is the interview. https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-57/clip/15997711

This is a minor minor nitpick and certainly not at the top of the list for priorities for the new mayor. But the way they divide the bills is not so that you pay exactly 1/3 of the 50% for each payment, but instead the first two payments are rounded to the same even dollar amount and the third...

Are any of the strong mayor powers designed to prevent council from rising up and punishing the mayor for, say, lying about a crack tape? Or could what happened to Rob Ford in November of 2013 still happen?

I think the 102nd person is the one who tried to register their dog but in actual fact (according to Matt Elliott?) was told that they couldn't actually register a dog so the human registered as a human but promoted it as the dog's campaign.

And yet people have been predicting that it was likely to happen and that the Bailão campaign would have been working on extracting the endorsement. What baffles me is that he has the effrontery to say that she will fix things without mentioning who left them (rather abruptly) in the condition...

Just had a robocall from John Tory urging me to vote for Ana Bailão because he is confident she will fix the city's finances.

I'm still mad that Tory ran in 2022, so it is exciting enough to see a bunch of candidates who are not Tory and also to have hope of a more progressive Mayor to finish out the term. And assuming Chow is elected, Josh Matlow will still be on council and can ideally have some influence where he...

Obviously I can't know whether a survey is randomizing the order for different recipients, but I can say that the poll calls I have received did not present the candidates alphabetically and in different questions presented the candidates in different orders. And in the last two calls Ana...