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2025 44th Ontario general election (Feb 27, 2025)

guavadelic said:
Just screams that the Liberals weren't ready for this early election even though there has been media speculation since early fall at least.
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Yup. People have even known what the date was since November, since Lisa MacLeod let it slip that February 28 would be her last day in politics.

 
For those who aren't aware what's going on in Don Valley North:
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Accomplishments:
Bill 163: Food Day Canada in Ontario (August)
Bill 183: Chinese Heritage Month in Ontario (February)
Bill 34: Anti-Asian Racism Education Month (ON/May)
Bill 250: Recovery Month in Ontario (Sepetember)

Vincent Ke has been trying to masquerade as a Conservative, despite running as an Independent.

He uses a blue background for his signs, like Sue Liu (the actual Conservative) for her signs, but without the PC logo. All his signs boldly feature "Re-Elect", despite him not being affiliated with the party. Then he dares to use Doug Ford's image for his flyers. That really sickened me.

Methinks somebody is pissed that Don Valley North has gone to the Conservatives, otherwise this trickery wouldn't be necessary.

Sounds like a stolen election from Liu by splitting the Conservative vote, through confusion...
 
Mind_the_gap said:
For those who aren't aware what's going on in Don Valley North:
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Accomplishments:
Bill 163: Food Day Canada in Ontario (August)
Bill 183: Chinese Heritage Month in Ontario (February)
Bill 34: Anti-Asian Racism Education Month (ON/May)
Bill 250: Recovery Month in Ontario (Sepetember)

Vincent Ke has been trying to masquerade as a Conservative, despite running as an Independent.

He uses a blue background for his signs, like Sue Liu (the actual Conservative) for her signs, but without the PC logo. All his signs boldly feature "Re-Elect", despite him not being affiliated with the party. Then he dares to use Doug Ford's image for his flyers. That really sickened me.

Methinks somebody is pissed that Don Valley North has gone to the Conservatives, otherwise this trickery wouldn't be necessary.

Sounds like a stolen election from Liu by splitting the Conservative vote, through confusion...
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Aside from the use of Doug Ford, he was the MPP prior to dissolution, so Re-Elect would not be wrong. An as an independent, he can use whatever colours he wants. I wouldn't label this as a stolen election, that seems extreme.
 
picard102 said:
What about the idiocy of assuming that you wouldn't be able to still have granular data? There is nothing stopping politicians from legislating that virtual polling is still broken up into sub polls.
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But as per my point, the size and scale of the subpolls is another matter. Or, I'd rather have someplace like, say, Mount Forest or Tavistock broken up into multiple polls of, maybe, around 100 votes each (and ones that are identifiable on a polling map) than subsumed into one big, dumb, urban/rural "megapoll" with a four-digit electorate. (And thee's the difference btw /"up to 2014" and "since 2018"--or. if you want, btw/federal and provincial.)
 

5,000 affordable homes at risk: Ford government rolled back mandates for dozens of Toronto properties on election call eve​

5,000 affordable homes at risk: Ford government rolled back mandates for dozens of Toronto properties on election call eve

"We just lost the potential for 5,000 units of affordable housing in a housing crisis for no apparent reason," one city councillor said. "This is a very big setback for
www.thestar.com

When the City of Toronto allowed landowners to build housing on nearly 70 workplace-designated land parcels, it mandated that a set percentage must be built as affordable housing. But when the change was sent to the Ontario government for approval, the affordability requirements were made optional.

A series of decisions signed on Jan. 27 and published Jan. 28 — the same day PC leader Doug Ford requested a dissolution of the legislature and sparked an early election — replaced city wording stating that developments “will secure” a certain amount of affordable housing with new phrasing that says builders will instead be “encouraged to include” a certain number of affordable homes.

The alterations have raised alarm at the municipal level, with city staff estimating that roughly 5,000 expected affordable homes — including rentals and owned units — could be at risk. “The previously secured number of affordable units that would be built on these lands may no longer be secured,” staff said, listing nearly 70 addresses in 18 areas impacted by the change.
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The chair of city hall’s housing committee, Parkdale-High Park Coun. Gord Perks, was caught off guard by the change. “We just lost the potential for 5,000 units of affordable housing in a housing crisis for no apparent reason,” he said. “This is a very big setback for our affordable housing plans.”

When land designated for workplaces is converted to allow housing, it immediately becomes more valuable, Perks said. “We want a good chunk of that profit reinvested for social purposes and building affordable housing,” he said. “Then suddenly, out of nowhere, the province took a whole bunch of them and just said we’re removing that public benefit.”

The property conversions city hall had put to the province for approval include parts of Golden Mile — a stretch of Eglinton Avenue in Scarborough lined with strip malls and parking lots, expected to see dozens of new towers in the decades ahead — as well as the site of a garden centre and restaurant near Scarborough City Centre and land with an existing shopping market in Liberty Village.

The affordable housing provisions included, for example, a site where any new condos would have to contain at least five per cent affordable rentals, or seven per cent affordable owned units, with the affordability provision in place for at least 99 years. The amount of space required to be set aside could also rise with time — for example, a site where the affordable rental quota would rise by 1.5 per cent per year if certain application milestones weren’t reached.
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christiesplits said:

5,000 affordable homes at risk: Ford government rolled back mandates for dozens of Toronto properties on election call eve​

5,000 affordable homes at risk: Ford government rolled back mandates for dozens of Toronto properties on election call eve

"We just lost the potential for 5,000 units of affordable housing in a housing crisis for no apparent reason," one city councillor said. "This is a very big setback for
www.thestar.com
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Quelle surprise. I expect no less from this government.

AoD
 
adma said:
But as per my point, the size and scale of the subpolls is another matter. Or, I'd rather have someplace like, say, Mount Forest or Tavistock broken up into multiple polls of, maybe, around 100 votes each (and ones that are identifiable on a polling map) than subsumed into one big, dumb, urban/rural "megapoll" with a four-digit electorate. (And thee's the difference btw /"up to 2014" and "since 2018"--or. if you want, btw/federal and provincial.)
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Okay, but no one is saying that's not possible.
 
Happy Election Day.

Here is 338.com's final projection:

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Polls close at 9 PM.

Two Toronto ridings to keep an eye on are York South-Weston and Humber River-Black Creek, which appear to be three-way races, a rarity in Toronto.
 
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