UAW overwhelmingly votes to strike!
#UAW #Union
#VoteTo Strike
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/uaw-workers-overwhelmingly-vote-authorize-strikes-gm-ford-stellantis-rcna101808

"Chow agrees with Cruise" is a subhead that made me laugh out loud.

https://www.cp24.com/news/what-s-up-with-the-traffic-in-toronto-tom-cruise-asks-in-recent-interview-chow-responds-1.6469296

#Toronto #ONpoli #Canada #VoteTO

As I thought, in the #Toronto mayor's by-election #OliviaChow won over 60,000 votes to Ana Bailao's just over 19,000 votes in the advanced polls.

On E-day, Bailao won about 216,000 votes to Chow's just under 209,000 votes.

The John Tory endorsement, and the massive robocalling didn't matter. A big chunk of Chow's votes were already in the ballot box.

For those at the Chow victory party, the advanced poll results were counted after the E-day poll results.

#topoli #voteto

Toronto elected its first mayor who rides a bike to work since the 1980s.
#biketooter #topoli #voteto

Back in Toronto after 10 days in Vancouver. What did I miss?

#toronto #vancouver #voteTO #nature #ocean

#Toronto Mayor election results

Chow, Olivia 269,372
Bailão, Ana 235,175
Saunders, Mark 62,167
Furey, Anthony 35,899
Matlow, Josh 35,572
Hunter, Mitzie 21,229
Brown, Chloe 18,831
Bradford, Brad 9,254
Saccoccia, Chris 8,001
Perruzza, Anthony 3,025
Gong, Xiao Hua 2,983
Sanders, Lyall 2,775
Mammoliti, Giorgio 1,105

Other candidates less than 1,000 votes.
#voteto #topoli

Thank you #Toronto Mastodon peeps! #topoli #voteto This is a victory against corporate politics in this town! And Doug Ford can get stuffed!

a most awesome story from mayoral by-election voting day - a friend of mine qualified to vote by presenting a letter of invitation from Cancer Care Ontario to do a poop test 😆😂🤣 #voteTO

Today is the #TorontoMayor election day! Here are the responses from several candidates to a #Toronto Alliance for Safe & Active Streets questionnaire. More and better cycling and pedestrian infrastructure is one way the city could improve after it's nearly 15 years of austerity. While many candidates gave similar answers, a few stand out as particularly bad. Saunders didn't even bother to take part. #TOpoli #voteTO #TOElections #ElectionToronto

https://safeandactivestreets.cycleto.ca/candidate_responses_2023?

I spoke too soon. Of course Mainstreet is still feeding the Bailão narrative. Their final poll has Chow at 36% and Bailão at 30%.

So, the odds of a win is now 81% for Chow and 19% for Bailão. Well, I'm volunteering to get out the vote for Chow tomorrow. Hopefully she'll win and we can see some change.

https://338canada.com/toronto/

PS, if you're planning to vote for Matlow, well, consider voting for Chow instead. Each have a very similar outlook, and Matlow simply cannot win.

#TOpoli #VoteTO

Well, 338 now reports that the odds of Chow winning are 93% and the odds of Bailão winning are 7%. The rest have less than 1% chance.

https://338canada.com/toronto/

#TOpoli #VoteTO

I’m both excited for the prospect of a progressive Toronto mayor for the first time in over a decade, yet cynical that we’ll get the kind of change we need in the 3 years she’ll have to make a difference while enduring character assassination from the right and centre between now and 2026. #TOpoli #voteTO

I’m both excited for the prospect of a progressive Toronto mayor in over a decade, and yet highly cynical that we’ll get the kind of change we need in the 3 years she’ll have to make a difference while enduring character assassination from right and centre between now and 2026. #TOpoli #voteTO

@markgrieveson Brad Bradford is essentially a right-wing Liberal, but for whatever reason, thought it was a smart idea to bring Jeff Ballingall and the ultra-reactionary "Ontario Proud" folks in to run his campaign. His mother Valerie Bradford is the federal Liberal MP for Kitchener South.

Bradford's home ward isn't that right-wing. And after this campaign, they can't stand him anymore. #OliviaChow signs are all over his home ward.

#voteto #topoli #Toronto

Last week thousands of Brad Bradford's city council constituents were without water and Bradford was invisible. Too busy campaigning for mayor.

He could have played local "hero". Instead he played local "zero".

#Toronto #topoli #voteto

https://www.blogto.com/city/2023/06/tens-thousands-toronto-residents-without-water-outage/

It has been interesting watching Brad Bradford's campaign for #Toronto mayor self-destruct. Earlier polls had him at over 10% at times. Newer polls show him with less than 5% support.

He will most likely do very poorly even in his "home" city council ward of Beaches-East York. It has been so bad that he will not likely be re-elected to city council in 2026. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if he steps down.

#voteto #topoli

The John Tory endorsement and Nick Kouvalis pouring a pile of money into last ditch robocalling is having an effect, but doesn't appear to be enough to catch #OliviaChow

#Toronto #voteto #topoli

Forum Research poll - Toronto Mayor - June 25th release:

Chow 29% (-3)
Bailao 20% (+7)
Saunders 15% (no change)
Furey 11% (-3)
Matlow 8% (-1)
Hunter 5% (-1)
Bradford 3% (-1)
Sample size 1037, Margin of Error +/- 3%

(All polls are at the bottom of the Wikipedia page)

#voteto #topoli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Toronto_mayoral_by-election

Mainstreet Research #Toronto Mayor poll - June 25th release

Chow 34% (+4)
Bailao 25% (+5)
Saunders 11% (-1)
Furey 10% (-3)
Matlow 7% (-2)
Hunter 5% (no change)
Brown 2% (no change)
Bradford 1% (-1)
Other 5% (no change)

Sample size 940, Margin of Error +/- 3.2%

#voteto #topoli

https://twitter.com/MainStResearch/status/1672922594192900099

A graphic put out by Matt Elliot ranking voter turnout in the advanced polls by #Toronto ward.

The highest advance poll voter turnout? In Toronto Danforth ward where support for #OliviaChow would tend to be quite high.

Other wards with higher advanced poll voter turnout would also lean towards #Olivia Chow.

#voteto #topoli

https://twitter.com/GraphicMatt/status/1671928437416550400