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Unsure of how much longer I’ll stick around here. I’ve also made the jump over to blue sky. mattybing.bsky.social
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Campaigns, especially municipal ones, are seemingly endless days of hard work, long hours, awesome highs and inevitable lows.
Congrats to @oliviachow and her team, but also to everyone on every team this election who gave everything they had to their campaigns. #TOpoli
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I asked Bradford if he'd consider provincial or federal politics now. He answered, "No, I'm a city hall guy. I'm an urban planner. I've always been interested in the city. It's my love and my passion, and it's been my life's work."
Hearing from campaign spokespeople there are long lines at polling stations in both Regent Park and Scarborough, it's created a log jam for Toronto results. No confirmation if it's due to increased demand or earlier issues with tech. #TOpoli
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I'm sure this will be said by many tonight, but let's get it started..
Putting a Leafs game on a streaming platform that costs $34.99/mo is an absolute joke.
It's a slap in the face for those who support this team.
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Remember to read the candidates full names…
Love this @CTVSean story about political names that might have voters pulling a double take ctvnews.ca/toronto/video/202…
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To do the math here you first have to fix a basic error: Bradford’s 2026 figure includes the rate budget (garbage, water, parking) but his 2011 figure does not.
Real numbers: $9.4 billion in 2011; $16.6 billion in 2026.
Now account for ~800K population growth and ~40% inflation
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Bradford’s ex-boss at city hall
This is demonstrably false.
As Chief Planner, I conducted a rigorous line-by-line review of the department’s budget every year. I was required to. The same practice continues across City divisions: expenditures are scrutinized and justified in detailed, publicly available budget briefing notes.
Why make a claim that the public record so clearly disproves?
This is the problem with Bradford: he just makes things up, even when the facts are readily available.
Does he simply assume no one will bother to check?
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Over the weekend, the Bradford campaign challenged the media to do this "scavenger hunt" to uncover supposed places where Olivia Chow frittered away the provincial New Deal money.
Challenge accepted.
From my newsletter this week, here’s what I found.
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My @TorontoStar column this week: so far, we’ve heard a lot of talk in this election about transit affordability and transit policing.
But I think what most riders really want to hear about is something else entirely: better transit service.
thestar.com/opinion/contribu…
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NEW: A local group says that new data from the City of Toronto proves that a moratorium on automated speed enforcement cameras could be leading to a massive spike in the number of drivers breaking the speed limit on a key road. #ToPoli
globalnews.ca/news/12061769/…
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NEW: Ontario Premier Doug Ford went to the very edge of endorsing incumbent Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow, praising her leadership at city hall in the middle of a municipal election campaign. #ToPoli #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/12061518/…
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NEW: Premier Doug Ford effectively endorses Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow.
He speaks of the relationship - both personal and financial - and says voters should “read between the lines.”
#onpoli
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"My father Michael Massaroli...you do my dad's legacy and the legacy of all these victims no honor by using this tragedy to spread hate. We have seen a medley of people come up today, of all races, all religions, all creeds and this tragedy is just that, it's a tragedy. I've had to grow up and spend the past 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers and sisters, to hate on people who don't look like them. That's wrong. That does no honor to the victims here...please stop."
Full video here: youtube.com/live/Wkl0vAMmU0I…
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NEW: Over the past 4 years, Ontario's homeless population has grown by 23% to nearly 82,000.
That's according to the Financial Accountability Officer, using Ontario's own figures counting the "known population experiencing homelessness."
The number of people without a home is projected to grow by another 15.8 per cent to nearly 89,000 over the next 3 years.
#onpoli
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Watching 13 # Leafs games got more expensive for non-Rogers subscribers in Canada.
thehockeynews.com/nhl/toront…
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“Yet Toronto’s official crime‑severity ranking is nowhere near the bottom of the national list, creating what researchers call Canada’s largest reputational penalty — a mismatch between how safe a city is and how safe people believe it to be.”
New poll finds Toronto viewed as one of Canada's least safe cities. toronto.citynews.ca/2026/09/…
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NEW: A Toronto city councillor asked city staff to look into cancelling the Progressive Conservatives’ annual FordFest event, internal communications suggest, and raised concerns about a public park being used for political campaigning. #OnPoli #ToPoli
globalnews.ca/news/12044936/…
