2026 Toronto Mayoral Race

[txlseries4]

I know this isn't specifically about the Mayoral election, but the University-Rosedale race could be an interesting one to watch with a challenger, Gabe Blanc, announcing today he will run for the Ward 11 seat where I've read Saxe has indicated intent to run again. It's hard to tell how Saxe will fare in the fall... Even though she has an incumbent advantage, she only just squeaked out a win by 123 votes in 2022.

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[adma]

I know this isn't specifically about the Mayoral election, but the University-Rosedale race could be an interesting one to watch with a challenger, Gabe Blanc, announcing today he will run for the Ward 11 seat where I've read Saxe has indicated intent to run again. It's hard to tell how Saxe will fare in the fall... Even though she has an incumbent advantage, she only just squeaked out a win by 123 votes in 2022.

There was a reason for that bare win; it was an open seat following Mike Layton's retirement, and she was a Green who upset the NDP standard-bearer who otherwise ought to have been the shoe-in to succeed Layton.

 

[christiesplits]

There was a reason for that bare win; it was an open seat following Mike Layton's retirement, and she was a Green who upset the NDP standard-bearer who otherwise ought to have been the shoe-in to succeed Layton.

In the coming weeks, a candidate with a lot of NDP machinery behind them will announce they are running in University-Rosedale. Norm DiPasquale, who finished a close second to Saxe in 2022, is not expected to run this time.

 

[Northern Light]

In the coming weeks, a candidate with a lot of NDP machinery behind them will announce they are running in University-Rosedale. Norm DiPasquale, who finished a close second to Saxe in 2022, is not expected to run this time.

The NDP machine has been very exclusionary towards Saxe, in a way that I would go so far as to call petty.

Very unfortunate.

Sure, she has her quirks, but she's frankly among the very best on Council both in caring/passion and in being smart.

She's dug up tons of dormant funds, in the many millions of dollars that staff had long forgotten they had and used them to improve her ward. She's a been a champion of transit and of reducing parking.
She's also among the most efficiency-oriented members of Council. She wants value for money, but she's quite prepared to spend to achieve, just not see money circle the bowl.

If she wants another term, she deserves it.

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The NDP should spend more time on turfing the most useless, hypocritical, anti-transit, anti-bike, pro parking, carpetbagger on Council...... Paula Fletcher.....then putting forward a good candidate in Beaches East York and another in Scarborough South West so we can get some good stuff done.

 

[Mihairokov]

The NDP should spend more time on turfing the most useless, hypocritical, anti-transit, anti-bike, pro parking, carpetbagger on Council...... Paula Fletcher.....then putting forward a good candidate in Beaches East York and another in Scarborough South West so we can get some good stuff done.

Didn't Saxe try to squash parts of the RapidTO bus lanes on Bathurst?

 

[Northern Light]

Didn't Saxe try to squash parts of the RapidTO bus lanes on Bathurst?

No, they were at risk of being defeated and she got most of it implemented in her ward. What came partially off the table was the northerly section in Matlow's ward, and in the section just north of Bloor, some minor concessions were made.......... for now.

 

[Tuscani01]

In the coming weeks, a candidate with a lot of NDP machinery behind them will announce they are running in University-Rosedale. Norm DiPasquale, who finished a close second to Saxe in 2022, is not expected to run this time.

Robin Buxton Potts?

 

[adma]

Robin Buxton Potts?

As the daughter of a former Liberal MPP, that might involve her switching affiliation.

Somehow, despite whatever NDP machine, I can picture Saxe relatively "entrenched" among the big-tent aging-boomer promiscuous-progressives, as a successor to the Nadine Nowlan and Ila Bossons sorts of yesteryear. And as for Paula Fletcher, remember that she's *already* NDP-affiliated, so it's likelier that she'd endure a scare from the left a la Perks in '22...