2014 Municipal Election: Toronto Mayoral Race

[pman]

I suggest that if suburban opinion is monolithic about anything (I don't think they are) one of the topics would be their amusement at the ranting and derision heaped on them by the "downtown" crowd because they don't choose to live downtown. Different strokes for different folks.

At least in my case the ranting and derision don't have anything to do with the fact that these suburban mouth-breathers don't live downtown. I'm happy for them to live in whatever approximations of Dallas or Phoenix they want. But I object strongly to the way they use their majority on council to impose an auto-centric form on central Toronto, while raising our property taxes to build subways to completely inappropriate locations because suburban identity politics always trump rational transit planning in this town.

 

[BurlOak]

So maybe Ford did save $1B.
http://ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/bl...ive-on-rob-fords-billion-dollar-savings-claim

Which mayoralty candidate will will come up with the slogan:
"Ford may have saved $1B, but he has also shown the he cannot work with the idiots on Council. We need someone like me who can work with these idiots since I am sure most of them will be re-elected."

 

[DKsan]

Toronto Life: Sarah Thomson releases another subway-themed music video, and it is glorious and awkward

I...I know the "White Kanye" who raps in that song. He's waiting for the rage to die down before he reactivates his FB.

 

[typezed]

So maybe Ford did save $1B.
http://ww2.nationalpost.com/m/wp/bl...ive-on-rob-fords-billion-dollar-savings-claim

But look at how The Sun - of all places - presents the findings:

Rob Ford’s $1-billion savings claim not accurate: City manager

There is no "maybe". It's a lie, based on ignorance and delusion as much as anything, but still a lie.

 

[denfromoakvillemilton]

At least in my case the ranting and derision don't have anything to do with the fact that these suburban mouth-breathers don't live downtown. I'm happy for them to live in whatever approximations of Dallas or Phoenix they want. But I object strongly to the way they use their majority on council to impose an auto-centric form on central Toronto, while raising our property taxes to build subways to completely inappropriate locations because suburban identity politics always trump rational transit planning in this town.

The subways are because of wanting to raise property values.

 

[adma]

The 'St. Clair Disaster' that isn't -- except where on street parking mucks it up

...or more conspicuously, where the bridge btw/Old Weston & Keele mucks it up. (Even if that's slated to be remedied. Someday.)

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

...or more conspicuously, where the bridge btw/Old Weston & Keele mucks it up. (Even if that's slated to be remedied. Someday.)

Someday doesn't seem all too far away. The plan has already gone through council, hasn't it?

 

[Greg Banks]

Someday doesn't seem all too far away. The plan has already gone through council, hasn't it?

There has nothing come to Council floor as yet however at EYCC a motion 2012EY15.10 was approved "request for Road Madification - St Clair Ave W and Old Weston Road specifically to do with operational improvements, bridge and road widening...I haven't seen anything on the various agendas since....

 

[canmark]

Karen Stintz tweet sounds more like Ford rhetoric ("war on taxpayers"). Today, I proposed a war on congestion, while @oliviachow proposed a war on taxpayers. #TOpoli #karen4mayor

Meanwhile John Tory is going to build the Relief Line "now" (how?). Chow has confirmed she will not get the relief line done until 2031. I will get it done now. Full statement: [url]http://bit.ly/1ixoMD6 #TOpoli[/URL]

 

[salsa]

Karen Stintz tweet sounds more like Ford rhetoric ("war on taxpayers"). Today, I proposed a war on congestion, while @oliviachow proposed a war on taxpayers. #TOpoli #karen4mayor

Yeah lets not forget who was responsible for wasting $1B on the Scarborough subway. Toronto taxpayers will be paying for many years to come so that Karen Stintz could have a shot at running for mayor, and the best she can come up with are a bunch of copycat Ford sound bytes, a sunflower, and "I'm a soccer mom with a mortgage, just like you". I guess money doesn't always buy good campaigns.

 

[Silence&Motion]

Meanwhile John Tory is going to build the Relief Line "now" (how?). Chow has confirmed she will not get the relief line done until 2031. I will get it done now. Full statement: [url]http://bit.ly/1ixoMD6 #TOpoli[/URL]

This comment reminds us why Tory is a perpetual political loser. He should realize that Ford already has the gullible idiot vote locked up. Next he'll promise to build the DRL without ever having to raise taxes... oh wait.

 

[edmundoconnor]

And the excitement builds...

JProskowGlobal 9:04am via Twitter for iPhone
Release: "Sarah Thomson is set to make a major announcement which may affect the course of the mayoral race."

Major announcement?

reporterdonpeat 10:07am via iOS
Sarah Thomson wants all new developments to contain 10% affordable housing units.

Thomson couldn't spell out why she's a footnote in this race more clearly.

 

[PinkLucy]

Karen Stintz has unveiled her transit strategy, and Torontoist doesn't like it very much: http://torontoist.com/2014/04/the-karen-stintz-transit-shell-game/

 

[salsa]

Karen Stintz has unveiled her transit strategy, and Torontoist doesn't like it very much: http://torontoist.com/2014/04/the-karen-stintz-transit-shell-game/

And neither do I. As expected, her idea that subways can be built without any tax increases doesn't work. One thing I learned since Ford got elected, is that ANYONE who says "I'm a fiscal conservative" should be avoided like the plague. Fucking hell.

 

[edmundoconnor]

Oh dear.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/0...ith-twister-chow-waits-for-laughter-to-begin/

As to the second point on the flyer, the Tory campaign is absolutely wrong. A Stintz campaign staffer thought it was funny to say that Chow mispronounces Scarborough as 'Scrabble' (while referring to it as both British and a card game. It is neither). If they're aiming for the people who follow every twist and turn of this campaign, they've shot themselves in the foot.

The only one I see twisting themselves into knots is Tory himself. He hasn't explained *how* he would get it built faster than his opponents would.