James McLeod

I am the unknown item in the bagging area.

Just one man's opinion, but I am a little bit disappointed that Olivia Chow has not been able to build a movement that gets people excited. I'm glad that people rejected Bradford, but it's hard to get excited for Chow's vision, or even clearly describe what it is.

Huh. This feels very, very similar to Google front-running the SpaceX IPO with an $80b sale of equity in June. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It really seems like American voters would've been ok with quite a bit of shameless corruption on the part of Trump and his cronies, if they'd kept gas prices low. But cartoonishly extreme corruption and a pointless war in the middle east is a bit too far for the median American voter.

Ooof.

Gil Penalosa endorsed both Brad Bradford and Bonnie Crombie.

I wonder how Geddy Lee is feeling this morning.

Sad Sadford.

Ooof.

Olivia Chow now has a strong mandate to pursue Toronto separatism.

With more than 520,000 votes earned and a few polls still left to count, Olivia Chow will be elected with the largest raw vote total of any mayor since Toronto’s amalgamation in 1998. (Many more people in the city since Mel Lastman’s days, of course.)

Brad Bradford's campaign was ultimately undone because his name sounds like a tertiary Hey Arnold character

Brad Bradford strikes out. Well done, Toronto.

Brad Bradford will have more time to spend with his baseball bat.

Andrea Horwath is really getting thumped in Hamilton.

Steven Del Duca has received 81% of the vote in his campaign to be re-elected as mayor of Vaughan, which has really gotta hurt if you're Bonnie Crombie.

A bunch of twitter guys are going to get really weird with it.

Nunziata polling third in Ward 5, huh.

"Trending" is not a thing. The result is locked in. They are just counting ballots in an arbitrary order. Any sense of momentum or trajectory is trying to impose narrative onto statistical noise.

And now it gets stressful.

Maybe Toronto doesn't actually need a government...?

If I get to the bottom of this mug of NeoCitran, I am going to bed and I'll find out who's mayor of Toronto in the morning.

It's ok. Take your time reporting the votes, guys. We know it takes time. It's not like we saw you scanning the ballots in real time when we were at the polling station earlier today.

I, for one, am excited to learn that Mississauga has politics.

Maybe this makes me a bad journalist but I’m coming around to the idea that we should just tell everyone the results once everything is counted the next day

Ontario breaking with the longstanding tradition of giving party leaders a mayoralty as a consolation prize, after they fail miserably at the provincial level.

Quick reminder: As of right now, the result of the election is locked in. Politicians don't "pull ahead" or "catch up." It's just the arbitrary way that the ballots are counted and reported.

This sounds fake.

I dont know if it's because they love republicans and want them to win but holy crap is this an embarrassment. the equivalent of reckless disregard in terms of journalism fuck ups. Just the simplest damn googling.

Anything that happens after 8:30pm is biased against me, an early bedtime person.

Just tell me who's won the election so I can go to bed.

I don't understand why people hate ska music. It's fun. It's got horns. What's not to like?

Lotta people have fond memories of Walter Koenig from his role in Star Trek, but I will always remember him as one of the most evil motherfuckers ever to appear on a television screen.

Advertising is the economic engine of the internet, and both Canada and Europe are grappling with the same problem. Now might be the right time to think about ways that we can build sovereign alternatives to American adtech. canadianshieldinstitute.ca/updates/cana...

Pain and discomfort are entirely subjective experiences. It's impossible to truly know what somebody else is feeling.

lol reminder that betting markets are extremely accurate measures of conventional wisdom

Song of the day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFPL...

I think I've watched The Irishman (2019) at least 20 times.

What are you going to do with the extra hour next weekend?

Do you think David Eby has friends who are lighting him up in the group chat today? Related: Which Canadian premier do you think is in the liveliest group chat? (It's Wab Kinew.)

If anybody asks, my Halloween costume is Brad Bradford.

In fairness, there was really no way to anticipate this.

Still thinking about "You Can See Everything"

Lost a rap battle so bad he got punched through into emo.