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CLAM DOWN posted:Tbf I don't know a single thing about John Tory other than he's probably a tory based on his name He might as well be their namesake because he is the textbook definition.
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Oct 23, 2018 02:30
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Oct 23, 2018 02:31
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Oct 23, 2018 02:45
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Mike Harris, noted for getting kicked out of the CPC for sexual harassment, is elected a regional councillor. Way to go KW, you can't stop electing this piece of poo poo.
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Oct 23, 2018 02:51
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Mad Hamish posted:Oh God, here's hoping. Sgro is a loathsome turd and I read somewhere today that he s dating Donna Skelly. Repugnant! Good news, Eisenberger won and the councilor votes were mainly pro-LRT. Hamilton will join the 21st century
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Oct 23, 2018 03:12
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At least we didn't elect the fascist school board trustee. Jason Erb can gently caress himself. Auschwitz had movie theatres and swimming pools gently caress offfffff.
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Very happy with the Hamilton results so far. Decidedly pro-LRT, and my preferred candidate for Ward 3 looks like she'll win.
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enki42 posted:Very happy with the Hamilton results so far. Decidedly pro-LRT, and my preferred candidate for Ward 3 looks like she'll win. I'm in Ward 7 and I got Esther Paul. She came by the house a few weeks ago and I shouted her off the property after she complained that the LRT would do nothing for people up the Mountain so it was a waste and then started taking up the Conservative Party. Our previous councillor was the execrable Donna Skelly (heh, my phone corrected that as Smelly), so I suppose this is the status quo for me. I'm happy to see that we still have a good mayor and got several new people on Council. Also congrats Toronto for narrowly not electing a literal neo-nazi.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Tbf I don't know a single thing about John Tory other than he's probably a tory based on his name He was the head of the PCPO for a while before he stepped on his own dick and lost both the general election and his own riding. He's a perennial loser who found his ideal home in Toronto municipal politics.
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Oct 23, 2018 03:33
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Mad Hamish posted:I'm in Ward 7 and I got Esther Paul. She came by the house a few weeks ago and I shouted her off the property after she complained that the LRT would do nothing for people up the Mountain so it was a waste and then started taking up the Conservative Party. They just re-elected a mayor who employs people who are sympathetic to Nazis instead.
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Sashimi posted:Why would the mayor of Brampton be at an airport in Mississauga? 
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Whoo boy, got quite the shock at the polls when I saw Paul loving Fromm's name on the ballot. Thankfully (sadly?) there only seems to be 700 nazis in Hamilton and he bombed at the polls. I thought he had been kicked out of Canada for denying the holocaust but I guess I got him confused with another fascist poo poo-bird.
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For what its worth our brain damaged crack smoking dead mayor probably brings in a greater than zero amount of tourism.
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Fojar38 posted:For what its worth our brain damaged crack smoking dead mayor probably brings in a greater than zero amount of tourism. Maybe Toronto should just lean into this and turn the mayor into an entirely powerless ceremonial position. Like the Queen. Have the city council do all the actual work, and for mayor we'll just elect the biggest clown we can find, as we tend to do already.
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WilliamAnderson posted:Online voting was a dumb idea and I hate all the municipalities that hosed the dog on it. I want the small minority of people who thought that online voting wasn't a completely terrible loving idea to come in here so we can tell them what loving idiots they are and make fun of them for our own amusement.
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Fojar38 posted:For what its worth our brain damaged crack smoking dead mayor probably brings in a greater than zero amount of tourism. Hazel McCallion is the best example of why we need term limits. For heaven's sake, let someone else do the job for a while, instead of you owning the thing for two generations.
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Maybe Toronto should just lean into this and turn the mayor into an entirely powerless ceremonial position. Like the Queen. Have the city council do all the actual work, and for mayor we'll just elect the biggest clown we can find, as we tend to do already. That's just gonna lead to disappointment when Chuckles loses in a landslide to Mikey Ford
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Maybe Toronto should just lean into this and turn the mayor into an entirely powerless ceremonial position. Like the Queen. Have the city council do all the actual work, and for mayor we'll just elect the biggest clown we can find, as we tend to do already. I hate to break it to you, but city council doesn't get to make that decision. Queens Park does.
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infernal machines posted:I hate to break it to you, but city council doesn't get to make that decision. Queens Park does. There was some stuff the council did to limit Doug Ford's ability to do things. The Star posted:Councillors decided by a 37-5 vote to cut the mayor’s budget and by a 36-6 vote to transfer many of Ford’s deputies and much of his budget to Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly. The Dark One fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Oct 23, 2018 |
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Oh right, although that was ostensibly a one-off emergency thing, it would have to be voted on each term in that form.
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Arivia posted:I hope these election results also give Eisenberger the ability to spike area rating like the trash it is. It needs to go to stop chicken and egg NIMBY transit poo poo. Area rating needs to die. People kick and scream about how they don't want THEIR taxes to pay for public transit as they don't use it, but somehow when I kick and scream about how I don't want MY taxes to pay for stupid goddamned Tiger-Cats bullshit I'm being unreasonable. Amalgamation was a mistake and sometimes I wish we could cut Flamborough loose, for all I grew up out there. Of course, Bratina campaigned on that, and look at where it got us.
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So I guess in mild surprise, for ward 14, Chris Budo came in a close-to-second third place with almost 20% of the vote. Budo is the 22-year-old son of a guy who owns a laundromat on the Danforth. My dad said that when they came to his door, Chris kind of stood in the back while the dad did the talking. It seems like his parents spent a poo poo ton of money on the campaign: his signs were everywhere, and notably had four colours instead of the usual two. I wonder if he disappears or takes another crack next time. I imagine his prospects would be a fair bit poorer without Fletcher and Fragedakis splitting the NDP vote.
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PT6A posted:Maybe just picking a random school board candidate is a lovely idea and you should either do your research or reject/spoil the ballot, regardless of whether you have kids that will be personally affected. It was very much like any other on-line survey, with bigger text. The "Next" button was grey and unresponsive until I made a choice. H floresiensis posted:Our election in Sudbury won't end until tomorrow due to some computer issues. We are completely online this year. Any other municipality experiencing the same? By the time I was posting here last night about my downfall-of-civilization random-school-board-choice vote, my fiance was at the polling station and the computer system had gone tits-up. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/sudbury-online-voting-problems-1.4873869 So she can vote today, and it might even work! Risky Bisquick posted:My wife and I voted in municipal, and when we didn’t know who to vote we voted for the best sounding name, mostly women. Take that politics We talked about this last night, and my fiance and I agreed that voting an all-women slate is a reasonable response to knowing nothing about a set of candidates. By voting for a woman, you're reducing the overall probability that the resulting government will include so many rapists. So that's something. yellowcar posted:Mike Harris, noted for getting kicked out of the CPC for sexual harassment, is elected a regional councillor.
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ExecuDork posted:We talked about this last night, and my fiance and I agreed that voting an all-women slate is a reasonable response to knowing nothing about a set of candidates. By voting for a woman, you're reducing the overall probability that the resulting government will include so many rapists. So that's something. I mean that's true but this rule could also get people voting for Faith Goldy the actual neo-nazi.
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ExecuDork posted:Wait, THE Mike Harris who was premier of Ontario, way back when? Or a different Mike Harris? I thought it was Michael "Mike Harris" Harris of the radio program "Michael Harris Live".
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CLAM DOWN posted:Tbf I don't know a single thing about John Tory other than he's probably a tory based on his name I'd make a joke about this, but it really is a testament to how forgettable he really was as OPC leader.
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ExecuDork posted:Wait, THE Mike Harris who was premier of Ontario, way back when? Or a different Mike Harris? Well now, you see there's also Mike Harris Jr., son if the infamous Mike Harris, and there's Michael Harris, of no relation. They're all in KW.
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Sounds like the Federal Carbon tax being imposed on the oppressed people of Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick will just be a straight carbon tax with a federal tax credit on your income tax returns at the end of the year.
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Oct 23, 2018 16:24
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Mad Hamish posted:Area rating needs to die. Tell them that their tax dollars going to public transit is being spent to keep other people off the roads, so actually they are using it when they drive around in their lifted F-150s and enjoy less traffic.
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vyelkin posted:Tell them that their tax dollars going to public transit is being spent to keep other people off the roads, so actually they are using it when they drive around in their lifted F-150s and enjoy less traffic. That argument never worked in my personal experience. These people aren't guided by logic 
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bunnyofdoom posted:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-open-for-business-bill-148-repeal-1.4874351 I hope Doug Ford and all of his supporters suffer greatly in the years ahead. I know they won't but I hope they do anyway
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Tighclops posted:I hope Doug Ford and all of his supporters suffer greatly in the years ahead. I know they won't but I hope they do anyway Don't worry, all the debt they'll incur while stripping away social services will be deflected by saying "but Wynne!" She's the liberal equivalent of Bob Rae in their eyes because unlike McGuinty (who should probably get more of the blame anyways) she's gay and a woman, two things cons tend to hate.
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