Calgary Grit

Category: 2010 Toronto Muncipal Election

  • 2010 Person of the Year

    As 2010 winds down, it’s time to pick a Calgary Grit Person of the Year for the 7th consecutive year. The criteria is simple – a person who made an impact on the Canadian political scene in 2010 (ruling out obvious choices like the PM, or lame picks like “you“). But this was a tough […]

  • Where you live

    The City of Toronto has released the poll-by-poll election night numbers and the result is no surprise – if you live in pre-amalgamation Toronto or on a subway line, you likely voted for Smitherman. If you’re a surburban type who drives a Ford, you likely voted Ford. The Torontoist has the map: And BlogTO looks […]

  • The Rob Ford Phenomenon

    I’m not sure a thorough post-mortem is required for yesterday’s election in Toronto. Much has been written about Rob Ford in recent weeks and it’s fairly easy to understand what happened. It was simply a case of Ford being the right person with the right message at the right time. Politics is usually as simple […]

  • Ontario Votes Live Blog

    11:15 pm: Sorry for the delay in status updates. Us elitists can get sidetracked from important tasks like blogging, when filled with rage (and fine wine). As for the results…well, Ford ran a good campaign. I’ll have more on that tomorrow. For now, I think it’s important for progressive Torontonians to keep things in perspective. […]

  • What’s the matter with Calgary?

    Dear Calgary, You used to be cool. You were the conservative rebel without a cause. You welcomed George Bush and Sarah Palin with open arms. You could always be counted on for a good pro-Iraq war rally. Ann Coulter called you “the good Canadians”. The man who embodied this Calgary image was Ralph Klein. He […]

  • Sarah Thomson’s Martha Moment

    In 2006, Martha Hall Findlay was the only woman in an 8 candidate field. She was a political outsider who earned high praise from the media for her performance during the campaign, despite lackluster levels of support. And when she threw her support behind Stephane Dion in Montreal, it gave Dion the momentum he would […]

  • Right Turn

    Polls out today show fiscal conservatives ahead in Calgary and Toronto. Calgary (Leger, n=500 phone) Ric McIver 43% (profile)Barb Higgins 28%Naheed Nenshi 8% (profile)Kent Hehr 4.1% (profile)Bob Hawkesworth 3.9%Craig Burrows 3.6%Joe Connely 2.9%Wayne Stewart 1.8%Alnoor Kassam 1.4%Oscar Fech 1.2%Bonnie Devine 0.8%Paul Hughes 0.8%John Lord 0.4% Kassam and Hughes are actually out of the race. Likely […]

  • Party Like It’s 1999

    Of all the things to hold against Rob Ford, this is probably the least of them: Mayoral candidate Rob Ford had a 1999 marijuana possession charge against him dropped, the Toronto Sun reports. The newspaper says he was pulled over on vacation in Florida and was found with a joint in his back pocket on […]

  • Let’s Get Municipal

    Calgary: Calgary is still buzzing over Barb Higgins’ entry into the Mayoral race, and there are reports she has hired Liberal strategist Don Lovett as her campaign manager. On the policy side, frontrunner Ric McIver has released his vision for Calgary, and Higgins has responded with her “policy framework“. Both are bland, unoriginal, and short […]

  • Toronto Votes 2010: Adam Giambrone’s Star Wars Kid Candidacy

    We’re still a long way away from e-day, but Toronto’s mayoral race is starting to take shape. According to the city’s website, there are 24 declared candidates – alas, Ange Maniccia has withdrawn, failling to generate a significant amount of Maniccia-Mania in the first day of his/her candidacy. Relax Ange, we all have moments like […]

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