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Main components of the campaigns:

• Housing: Cost as well as type and distribution
• Transportation: transit, traffic, active transport
• Crime: Policing, drug policy, funding
• Social Justice: reform, climate action, racism With added factors of:
• Personal: cool things about them or notable past
• Vibes: general description of how I feel about them

The Candidates

Bahira Abdulsalam

• City Planning: hit on the main points but very vague
  • Net zero planning but missing true model
  • Smart cities but doesnt address getting there w/out megacorp overlords
  • sustainable transportation and medium density development maybe? a bit vague
• Social Goals: structural racism to be addressed because it hurts the economy. Playing both sides so she comes out on top here
• Personal: lots of talk about institutional racism, correct but marketworld doesnt like
• Vibes: Extremely good, got that motherly warmth but tough because engineer who stands for something
  • not the best public speaker, not the worst

6/10

Emmanuel Acquaye

“I am tired of ranting on TikTok, so I am running for the Mayor of Toronto”

• City Planning:
  • government owned temporary housing to help with homelessness
• Social Goals:
  • doesnt like how the police interact with people
• Personal:
• Vibes: immaculate
  • not a politician, you know politicians
  • “I got sick and tired of the homeless population as wel as the TTC services”
  • MAYOR ALERT!!! youtube video
  • second video already apologizing for lack of uploads
  • draws on a whiteboard and points at it

The best 3/10 great vibes and young but nothing really in terms of a real platform

Blake Acton

• City Planning:
  • Free TTC
  • More affordable housing
  • removal of bike lanes to make things safer for cyclists?
  • policing: wants to do a review with no intention of defunding
• Social Goals: says he supports LGBTQ
• Personal:
• Vibes: about as good as you get for a middle aged white guy corporate culture warrior type

3/10 has a platform but it misses the mark on anything and comes out as just watered down reactionary while trying not to say anything too bad

Sharif Ahmed

Taxi owner-operator, heart of Scarbs

• City Planning:
  • Traffic control officers at intersections during rush hour (?)
  • No property tax increase on seniors
  • wants developers and construction companies to pay for going over budget
    • sounds good, doesnt pan out the way you want it to
• Social Goals:
  • name drops love for LGBTQ, disability, faith and no faith
• Personal:
• Vibes: intermediate

2/10 Seems like a good guy, his policies just dont seem to carry much weight

Asadul Alam

“ALL SPORTS TEAMS WIN”

https://www.asadul-alam.com/toronto-mayor-election/ whole table of issues –> impact –> budget –> source that is just empty

• City Planning:
  • city wide wifi
  • climate control bus stops
  • “zero waste (or get fined)”
  • “cell phone on TTC” like service on subway?
• Social Goals:
  • no bullying
  • no drugs
• Personal:
  • website is pretty weird
• Vibes: seems like a highschooler runnning for school government

3/10

Gru Jesse Allan

Gru for mayor also website looks so dope

• City Planning:
  • paying corporations to do city work is a waste
  • gardiner gone and replace with boulevard
  • raise vacancy tax rate
  • reduce profiteering in housing development
• Social Goals:
  • fund communities, defund police
  • demilitarize police and focus on crisis response teams
  • actually evidence based, lines up with Ruth Wilson Gilmore
  • solving homelessness actually seems like a good plan
• Personal:
  • ex homeless bike courier
  • some website design choices could use refining
• Vibes: I love this guy

9/10

Atef Aly

I could not find anything meaningful about this candidate

Dionysios Apostolopoulos

I could not find anything meaningful about this candidate

Darren Atkinson

9 for the 6ix Platform

• City Planning:
  • use existing dwellings as affordable housing
  • ban airbnb and new taxes on foreign development
  • TTC gets more road space
• Social Goals:
  • loans for retiring in place at home
  • meaningful indigenous reconciliation through letting them make parks
  • revive live music in Toronto
• Personal:
  • politcal cartoon
  • soundcloud song that kind of slaps
  • campaign platform link dead
• Vibes: Its never been more real this guy is hysterical

4/10 funny and I like some ideas but overall missing the bedrock

Jamie Atkinson

Honey, I shrunk the beurcracy.

Too many people complaining about not having enought houses. Thats a math problem. You know whats good at math? Computers

• City Planning:
  • private consulting, just name drops a bunch of random tech companies
  • elevated bike lanes
  • adaptive cruise control on all cars in 2-7 years
    • more cars move people faster
• Social Goals:
  • steamlining services to shrink bureaucracy
  • everything uses the uber model but remote work
• Personal:
  • used over 900 software programs in lifetime
• Vibes: someone gave a tech bro a website and said make a mayor platform
  • all images are AI generated and weird

2/10

Ana Bailão

• City Planning:
  • make the province pay for the DVP and 401
• Social Goals:
  • uh
• Personal:
  • this person may not actually exist, major psy-op vibes
• Vibes: Everything reads like clickbait
  • fearmongering taxes then saying nothing
  • 15 second video clips that suck

0/10

Jose Baking

Cant find anything

Ben Bankas

Comedian running as a joke but forgot to be funny

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
  • anti woke
  • woke policy makes it worse and we've been too woke
• Personal:
  • says noone wants to vote for a cop
  • a bunch of no-names
  • sad that people dont get his humour in the PC world
  • rebel news
• Vibes: Jesus this sucks

0/10

Claudette Beals

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
  • police reform
  • climate justice
  • prison reform
  • restructuring city council for better representation
  • mental healthcare
• Personal:
  • daughter had seizure and police threw her off balcony, we remember this story
  • reactionary anti-saunders
• Vibes: OK

3/10

Glen Benway

• City Planning:
  • anti bike lane
    • fundementally does not understand traffic and induced demand
  • Helping TTC
    • only through mass surveillance and doing nothing else?
  • Scrapping vacant property tax because some people may not have internet?
• Social Goals:
  • reducing homelessness but with no plan, just complaining about it
    • just keeping more of them in shelters
    • no structural analysis
• Personal:
  • risk consultant lmao
• Vibes: if you own multiple investment properties and want to see less homeless people (not have less homeless people, just not see them around) this is your guy

1/10

Eliazar Bonilla

Cant really find anything

Brad Bradford

Could be replaced by Johnny Sins and not many would notice

• City Planning:
  • finish the gardiner faster by making construction 24/7
  • complains about a 10 lane bottleneck LMAO we dont need more lanes bro
  • wants to accelerate 1 housing development plot for housing
• Social Goals:
  • the last thing toronto wants is activists
• Personal:
  • no real platform, I had to read like 8 articles
  • city planner
  • says he enjoys craft beer
• Vibes: nothing stands out, just some dude like what if we did the same construction but faster

5/10

Chloe Brown

The Edmonton City Plan of Toronto Mayors

• City Planning:
  • housing first inspired by real actions of other cities
  • better wages and emergency response
  • top tier city planning
  • urban farming
  • community owned housing
  • ISP cooperatives
  • worker coops
• Social Goals:
  • night time economy is absolute kino
  • internet mesh networks (noahpilled)
• Personal:
• Vibes: So good. The best Ive seen by far

10/10

Brian Buffey

only exists in facebook posts of his signs and complaining about trudeau

• City Planning:
  • nothing
• Social Goals:
  • nothing really
• Personal:
  • wont take a salary
• Vibes: facebook culture warrior

0/10

Celina Caesar-Chavannes

• City Planning:
  • housing cooperatives
  • general improvements to TTC
• Social Goals:
  • mental health response capacity
  • more involvement of indigenous and black led organizations
• Personal:
  • Seems like social justice advocate first, which is cool, but I would like to see a bit more on core city planning (unless I missed it)
• Vibes: I like her, website looks a bit medical sometimes though

6/10

Mason Carrie

wants to build a giant gundam

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
• Personal:
• Vibes: execute this weeb immediately

0/10

Roland Chan

• City Planning:
  • bike lanes even in winter
  • snow ploughs shouldnt build up snow in front of driveways
• Social Goals:
  • more police especially on TTC
  • more investment in poor communities
  • food before feelings
• Personal:
  • facts dont care about your feelings type
• Vibes: mild ick

2/10

Matti Charlton

site looks like the printhouse

• City Planning:
  • taxing undeveloped properties more
  • higher taxes on multiple property owners
• Social Goals:
  • harm reduction for drugs
  • more indie music
• Personal:
  • autistic queer transgender
• Vibes: fine, just kind of a general queer mayor without too much more

3/10

Danny Chavalier Romero

didnt see anything

Olivia Chow

I like how the popups work on her website

• City Planning:
  • publically owned rental housing
  • build houses ready for the climate crisis (LMAO)
  • more transit infrastructure
  • luxury homes tax
  • triple tax on housing speculation
  • no traffic policy
• Social Goals:
  • community crisis teams instead of just police
  • better library hours
  • empowering arts and festivals
• Personal:
  • wont use strong mayor tactics
    • libs failing to control the narrative
• Vibes: Average, seems like a reasonable front runner

7/10

Logan Choy

(truth) opposition has to work for God I'm just happy to be his servant I love my job helping people

The truth about Logan Choy the mayor his eyes are beautify lol blessed Torontonians

has a youtube channel and the audio quality is non existent on what I saw

0/10

Kevin Clarke

couldnt really find anything

Sarah Climenhaga

still trying to get rid of vaccine mandates

• City Planning:
  • drop TTC fares for seniors then everyone
  • working together for housing!!1!
• Social Goals:
  • eliminate paperwork for city enhancing activities
  • Not relying on the police force, getting to root causes
  • more resident participation in decisions
• Personal:
  • antivaxxer
• Vibes: Ron Dunn but a white woman antivaxxer

2/10

Gordon Cohen

talks about just kinda making things better together because hes a good businessman

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
• Personal:
  • real estate developer
• Vibes: minimum donation is 100 dollars

0/10

Paul Collins

The crypto bank specialist

• City Planning:
  • $1 TTC running more frequently and 24 hours
  • subway out to the zoo
  • TTC more expensive to those outside the city
  • people who take trains get the TTC for free
  • keep the science center where it is and just build another water park there
• Social Goals:
  • police marches
  • we love raccoons
• Personal:
  • author
• Vibes: all good spare police marches

5/10

Frank D'amico

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
• Personal:
  • Catholic School Board Trustee
  • so much more!
• Vibes: seems to want to win on just being him with no platform

1/10

Frank D'Angelo

ADS ON GOVERNMENT WEBSITES

• City Planning:
  • Tolls on main arteries
    • what about the now busier sidestreets
    • tolls during peak hours
    • charge more for parking
• more bike lanes
  • make sure they work in winter
• Wants TTC to pay for itself
  • this is a horrible idea and is not the point of a service
• Create green zones where climate change is the number 1 priority
• more affordable housing
• sell off excess government land
• bringing ads to government websites
• Social Goals:
  • We waste too much money on consultants and reports
    • capitalist realism and winners take all pilled?
  • police as the default social solution
    • guess not, but he still wants to train them for mental health or something
  • Lottary for the homeless or something? holy based
  • youth empowerment zones
    • stop kids from joining gangs
    • in areas of high crime
    • i love the term “youths”
• Personal:
  • not a politician, but a concerned citizen
• Vibes: most based so far

palpations/10

Rob Davis

Running with decades of experience alone

• City Planning:
  • landlords need to supply air conditioning
• Social Goals:
  • school officers should stop violence
• Personal:
  • Vice chairman of TTC
• Vibes: ??? you do the TTC talk about the fucking TTC

1/10

Phillip D'Cruze

Visual platform hype machine

• City Planning:
  • fines to landlords who dont repair houses
  • 20% reduction in rent and cant change for 3 years
  • use empty land for housing
  • firing high positioned TTC employees
  • replacing gas stations with bike stations
• Social Goals:
  • distribute wasted food
  • more youth involvement with government
• Personal:
  • knows the basics of 52 languages?
• Vibes: lovely

3/10

Samson Deb

Has toronto's next mayor in his linkedin bio

does not have a website

0/10

Habiba Desai

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
  • high-school students looking to learn about civilized guerilla warfare using non-violent techniques of drama and music
    • coopting revolution to make it nonviolent
• Personal:
  • just generally grew up and got into politics
• Vibes: I am so angry

0/10

Cory Deville

Can we Throat Punch in Politics, or is that toxic in 2023?

• City Planning:
  • 0 TTC fare
    • cites math but its laughably bad, calls the math drunk
• Social Goals:
  • non-violent police de-escalation unit
  • promotion of fitness and minimum living standard to reduce healthcare burden
• Personal:
• Vibes: looks like a sigma grindsetter

3/10

Simryn Fenby

cant find aything

Monica Forrester

no website but does have reports

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
• Personal:
  • 2-spirit trans
  • queer events
• Vibes: apperently good, I wouldnt know that much

1/10

Anthony Furey

• City Planning:
  • removal of bike lanes
  • ending land transfer tax
• Social Goals:
  • more police
  • ending safe injection / drug use
  • getting homeless out of parks
• Personal:
  • Big with Jordan Peterson
• Vibes: might be the worst platform I have ever seen. It is ALL actively bad. Like actively hostile to humans on every front. I want to call it a joke but the funniest part is that its not. The reality of such a shit platform existing and getting votes is funnier than any joke I could make about it. If your goal is to maximize suffering, this is your choice

0/10

Scott Furnival

could not find a website

Isabella Gamk

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
  • Active protester in the skreets for homessness
• Personal:
  • Trans converted at 56
• Vibes: dont have much to run off of but she seems like a real one

1/10

Feng Gao

• City Planning:
  • free TTC
• Social Goals:
  • No Election. More erections. Sexy @ work. Juicy in bed. Keep in Touchi, Power 2 Pussy / P2P.
• Personal:
  • thinks olivia chow is a terrorist
• Vibes: terrifying (funny)

0/10

Xiao Hua Gong

had the first signs on the streets

• City Planning:
  • free TTC for old and young
  • $1000 less in taxes per property
• Social Goals:
  • lunch subsidies
  • more police in schools and TTC
    • police as a blanket solution
  • huge on web3
• Personal:
• Vibes: atrocious

0/10

Adil Goraya

• City Planning:
  • All neighborhoods in toronto will need to have some affordable housing
  • tax on ulta-luxury housing
• Social Goals:
  • tough on crime
• Personal:
  • lawyer
  • does it for his daughter
• Vibes: not notable

3/10

Brian Graff

• City Planning:
  • end waterfront privatization
  • stop some transit developments
  • replace the city plan (ok)
  • review existing bike lanes (sigh)
• Social Goals:
  • Full employment, closer to job guarantee
  • more economic equality
• Personal:
  • reading list includes Ha-Joon Chang, Picketty, Micheal Hudson, and much more
• Vibes: cool economics head, I have a couple books for his ass
  • very HTML website

6/10

Ari Grosman

• City Planning:
  • bike guy
  • designated bus lanes on all 3+ lane streets
  • increase vacant home tax
  • more high rises faster
• Social Goals:
  • better phychologist school programs
  • pro lgbtq
• Personal:
  • needs a website
• Vibes: seems good but inexperienced

5/10

James Guglielmin

cant find anything

David Gulyas

• City Planning:
  • collective housing
  • improved public spaces
  • right to work
  • more public beauty and entertainment
• Social Goals:
  • anti corporate colonization
  • government being bad means corporations can convince us they are better (which they arent)
• Personal:
  • open lefty
  • Just wants more lefty representation
• Vibes: Chill guy, get his ass to theory night

5/10 nothing bad just not there to win

Thomas Hall

cant find anything meaningful

Peter Handjis

https://electpeterhandjismayoroftoronto.ca/

• City Planning:
  • not just repair but upgrade infrastructure
  • snack shack and cafe spaces to be rented in city parks
• Social Goals:
  • subsidies for low income
  • More laws for safety in high risk jobs
  • help with addiction services
• Personal:
  • tall ghoulish picture for empowering businesses
• Vibes: idk man just doesnt feel thorough

5/10

Heather He

website down

Toby Heaps

• City Planning:
  • dog friendly city parks
  • less salt usage in winter
  • expand public transit hours
  • cooperative home ownership
    • benefits and fast tracking for this model
    • forcing developers to finish building on time regardless of market forces
• Social Goals:
  • one time pet licensing
  • raising taxes on massive corporations to help small business
• Personal:
  • Running with their dog Molly
    • doggos make politics more human
• Vibes: a little too reddit core for me

6/10

Monowar Hossain

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
  • homelessness should not exist
  • more space for music
  • no more property taxes, wants to consult to slim budget
• Personal:
• Vibes: oh no just someone who wants to make cuts and have it magically solve broad issues

1/10

Mitzie Hunter

Hell, its about time

• City Planning:
  • publicly owned housing
  • better subway hours
  • more greenspace
  • better washroom availability
• Social Goals:
  • More opportunity for responsible drinking in parks
  • has fully costed budget
  • childcare
• Personal:
  • everything is a 3 point plan
  • too many articles it sucks
  • 26 dollar minimum donation
• Vibes: she seems like a good frontrunner

8/10

Sheila Igodan

As a mayor, l will ensure I m on time and at work every day.

• City Planning:
  • better parking systems and more active transport
• Social Goals:
  • auto insurance?
    • aims for insurance transparency but that will never happen unless its public. The industry exists on opacity
  • more fitness programs in parks
• Personal:
  • entrepreneur (eyeroll)
• Vibes: fine ideas just not enough of them

6/10

Daniel Irmya

Cant find anything

Syed Jaffery

• City Planning:
  • accessability
• Social Goals:
  • subsidies for tuition
  • when asked about racism talks about mental health
• Personal:
  • People's party
  • peanut shaped head
  • biomed
• Vibes: weird in the way where he says one good thing then nothing else and is peoples party

1/10

Michael Jensen

didnt see anything

Patricia Johnston

“This bill is nasty” – her third quote, no bill specified`

• City Planning:
  • affordable housing
• Social Goals:
  • almost mentions class, says affordable housing is being taken from us
• Personal:
  • getting fairly old by the looks of it
• Vibes: great vibes honestly

2/10

Walayat Khan

didnt see anything

Serge Korovitsyn

• City Planning:
  • uber and lyft will solve transit issues
  • reduce property tax
  • look into expanding island airport
  • thinks we should have more companies to compete to reduce hydro prices
• Social Goals:
  • all city contracts will be published for public viewing
  • all union negotiations made public
  • no welfare checks, replace with emergency solution center(?)
  • all people should be able to live in their community. Not about money, about people (?)
  • everything should accept crypto
  • private education
  • more sports for kids
• Personal:
  • Libertarian party
  • Born in Soviet Union
    • how far he has fallen
• Vibes: Seems kind of nice but just doesnt understand the reality of his views

3/10

Michael Lamoureux

• City Planning:
  • More subways
  • more parks
  • says mixed use housing is only good for 40 years?
  • does say we need to stop tax cuts for developers
  • city should sell off all commuity housing and unused space to go to paying rent
    • This kills the city does it not
  • we need to build underground subways
    • no fares but charge way more for parking to pay for it
  • Cap roads at 2 (maybe 3) lanes per side and use the rest for bike infrastructure
    • admits he has no clue what to do with 401 (weak)
  • Higher taxes on investment property
• Social Goals:
  • wants there to stop being more people (LMAO)
  • says about 20% of people cant afford a house?
  • using cruise ships for extra housing if needed
  • just getting mental health issues in houses
  • City budget needs to be drastically reduced to core function
  • decreasing taxes if people go green for climate change
  • stop and search for guns (this will totally not hurt minorities)
  • reduce pigeon and raccoon populations
  • getting rid of graffiti
  • no drinking in parks (1984)
• Personal:
  • This guy wrote a whole lot and made it sound like a huge opinion piece sometimes. Kinda cool I like informal but I feel like it could be made more concrete
• Vibes: Austerity me harder

4/10

Kris Langenfeld

Hello folks people dont want to think about what government is doing

• City Planning:
  • replace luxury building with affordability (but only 5%, dont we already have this?)
  • reel yellow belt from 4 units back to 3
  • retrofit old warehouses to house homeless
  • traffic is getting worse... (doesnt say his plans)
  • Peg property tax to inflation (this is an idea I have never thought of)
• Social Goals:
  • improve accessibility
  • wants opinions to be heard
  • I can fix her (the system)
  • social programs to reduce crime
  • not only relying on police as bandaid for all
  • Add guards to TTC
• Personal:
  • not a politician
  • not like the others
  • wants to fix it all then get out
• Vibes: I can fix her attitude is lovely

5/10

Rick Lee

“It's like a bucket list thing” $200 deposit got random people to sign “I want to be a Wikipedia entry”

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
• Personal:
• Vibes: you cant hate on someone for living their best life

2/10

Mark LeLiever

Get toronto moving (but get rid of bike lanesd)

• City Planning:
  • removing bikelanes downtown to help traffic
• Social Goals:
  • property tax freeze
• Personal:
  • not a politician
• Vibes: moving but no bike lanes is so fucking dumb

0/10

John Letonja

http://johnletonja.ca/

You open his site to a grainy photo of him in a van? with bad lighting KINO

has his home address on his site

“I am here to respect taxpayers and fix all issues by overhauling city hall and get rid of the red tape on all infrastructures without delay saving taxpayers money and not wasting taxpayers money and definitely making new money to pay for Toronto needs without taxing taxpayers”

“Now for our Economy and housing I am going use vacant land in city parks and open spaces for more farming growth for the people so we the people can have free food all the time even in winter just save your vegetable seeds or any seeds that you have when shopping for groceries and plant them on your yard or in your apartment or in your home at least you will be happy to see something grow and eat fresh food or give your seeds to Toronto to plant food so we can  give it to the food banks so people that can't afford food can have free food”

• City Planning:
  • “cutting red tape” and building as fast as possible
    • build as many cheap units as humanly possible, no unused properties
  • filling potholes with garbage (I think?)
  • use vacant land for farming
  • no tax raise for investment housing or developers
  • put a cover ofer Scarborough RT if weather causes issues
  • fuck the gardiner it is expensive and an eyesore
  • synchronize all lights and immediate towing of any breakdowns
• Social Goals:
  • making a new sport called fastball
    • toronto owns the team
    • keeps on this for a while and says to text him if you want at 647-785-5055
    • I think this is a scam?
  • Make a Toronto 50/50 lottery ticket
  • Free food all the time
    • also tax breaks for grocery stores who give out almost bad food
  • Therapy and social services instead of relying on hospitals
  • “hangman attitude” on crime
  • wants cops to have constant facial recognition and distance electromagnetic scanners
  • cops can carry tranq guns
  • let people just do arts stuff anyehere with no permit
• Personal:
  • not a rich man and knows how to live on a budget
  • thanks people for voring for him as point 11 of 15
  • if you think of any other issues, call or text him personally
• Vibes: Heaven and Hell

2/10

Norman MacLeod

cant find anything

Giorgio Mammoliti

Families before politics

• City Planning:
  • affordable housing
    • public private partnerships (starting to age out but still the dominant practice)
    • rent assistance
  • eliminate bike lanes
• Social Goals:
  • closing shelters and moving to permanent housing solutions
  • root causes as crime prevention
  • addresses cybercrime
  • no real alternative to police outlined
  • Law enforcement on TTC
  • welfare reform: hand-ups not hand outs
    • training for those on welfare
    • streamline process to make it more accessible
  • Abolish property taxes for seniors
• Personal: city councilor for 30 years
• Vibes: Career city councilor vibes

4/10

Steve Mann

• City Planning:
  • free public transit
• Social Goals:
  • stronger privacy rights
    • open source as standard
• open source as standard – savings!
  • tuition free university (can he even do that)
  • introduce analog currency (?!)
• Personal:
  • professor who does a lot with wearable tech
• Vibes: cool tech I want to chill with him, what the city doin

3/10

Cleveland Marshall

couldnt find anything

Josh Matlow

• City Planning:
  • more transit funding
    • lower fares too
  • LRT in Scarbs
  • more active transit
  • move gardiner to ground level
  • more bike lanes to improve traffic
  • protect greenbelt with indigenous leadership
• Social Goals:
  • open up schools in evenings as community spaces
  • more library hours
  • more investment into arts and festivals
  • more taxes on owners to pay for more services
• Personal:
  • uses facts and evidence and is a doer
• Vibes: most normal

7/10

Faizul Mohee

• City Planning:
  • lots of electric car infrastructure
• Social Goals:
  • reduce property tax by 10%
  • more police
  • lots of cuts everywhere
  • stop the bad violence!
• Personal:
  • not a politician
  • needs a website, stop relying on massive twitter posts with too many scattered words
• Vibes: get farther than twitter, at least addresses a bunch of things

2/10

Bob Murphy

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
  • pro union
  • wants to fix ODSP
• Personal: Wants to bring back the spirit of Jack Layton!
• Vibes: like a culture warrier but NDP, just twitter yelling

1/10

Michael Nicula

Campaign of new ideas! first idea is law and order

• City Planning:
  • affordable housing is useless, let the market decide
  • expand transit for traffic and climate
  • free transit downtown
• Social Goals:
  • Law and order
    • city cant do it alone because liberties, so wants to bring in OPP and RCMP
  • we need austerity
  • why cant people afford anything???
• Personal:
• Vibes: Heavy fascism vibes from this one

1/10

Jamil Nowwarah

cant find anything

Anthony Perruzza

plan of a thousand news posts

• City Planning:
  • 1000/mo homes
  • no property tax or rent increases
• Social Goals:
  • free afterschool programs
• Personal:
  • started as a carpenter, jesus reborn?
• Vibes: I dont want to read a thousand articles to decipher a campaign

3/10

John Ransome

cant find anything

D!onne Renee

• City Planning:
  • free TTC
  • better transit
  • increase green space and aesthetics
  • more extensive preplanning before doing things
  • cooperative housing
  • vertical farming
  • dutch road design
• Social Goals:
  • End racism
  • structural accessability
• Personal:
  • cheese yet addictive song she does alone in a video
• Vibes: shes got the spirit

6/10

Willie Reodica

The “Booming” Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville needs a New Mayor. A good one!

• think this is old

Walter Rubino

• City Planning:
  • free TTC with increased service
  • tolls for non residents
• Social Goals:
  • more arts and cultural funding
  • marijuana patios
  • alcohol in parks
• Personal:
  • does not like Doug Ford
• Vibes: sounds like a guy who just wants some slight social changes

2/10

Chris Saccoccia

• City Planning:
  • high density development
    • emergency measures to do so
  • rent to own pubic private partnerships
    • is this not just a worse public housing/mortgage thing?
  • Expand public transit and make it cheaper
    • more subways using pubic-private partnerships
    • private investment to make subways
• Social Goals: – anti government
• Personal:
  • proudly not a politician
  • serves truth
  • they try to silence him
  • culture warrior
    • antimask, antivax, covid denial
  • bennet has an article and a tweet
• Vibes: Just gives me off vibes. Like shark tank but greasier

1/10

Lyall Sanders

• City Planning:
  • affordable housing
  • transit safety and affordability
• Social Goals:
  • school safety
  • reduce property tax
• Personal:
  • teacher
  • metis
• Vibes: seems like an alright guy, just has no details on his platform

1/10

Mark Saunders

• City Planning:
  • anti bike lane
• Social Goals:
  • strong safety net (does not elaborate)
  • says policing isnt the solution but also grills anyone wanting to defund police
    • also says more TTC cops, but does say train them in mental health and accessability
    • Prevent loitering on TTC (!?)
    • more cameras at all transit stops
• Personal:
  • generally just talks about how scary it is out there a lot
  • former police chief
• Vibes: cop doing cop things

0/10

Rocco Schipano

couldnt find anything

Robert Shusterman

cant find anything

Knia Singh

• City Planning:
  • TTC
    • you must be in a decent state to ride the TTC
    • positive messaging as well as instructions on how to react to assault on intercom
    • fare increases
    • wants to do 1 person train operation but also have more people for redundancy?
    • Is this whole plan his or is this just a copy of TTC documents
• Social Goals:
  • addressing class division
  • identify cause of violence, immediately looks to gangs (california did this one...)
  • mental health counselling for PTSD
  • 24 hour crisis hotline
• Personal: noone is reading a 90+ page document of TTC numbers and you cant rely on that to take you anywhere
• Vibes: cmon man

2/10

Partap Dua Singh

• City Planning:
  • 100,000 green housing units within 6 months
  • more public washrooms
  • free TTC
• Social Goals:
  • dismantle and replace toronto police
  • direct democracy government
  • addressing inequality
• Personal: a bit bold to redo democracy in 3 years but I like it
• Vibes: ambitious, i like that

3/10

Raksheni Sivaneswaran

cant find anything

Erwin Sniedzins

• City Planning:
  • wifi on TTC
    • badges to those who do the right thing in tough situations
  • public private partnerships to develop housing on unused land
  • replace LRT with busses
  • congestion fees at peak hours!!!
  • better separated bike infrastructure near highways
• Social Goals:
  • reduce property taxes
  • provide off-grid education resources to parents?
  • says government needs to take blame when contractors go over budget and behind on time
• Personal: video looks like those AI Reagan says something videos
• Vibes: cold war

4/10

Sandeep Srivastava

People lost their jobs, no jobs, medical health issues, got kicked out from landlord, no money to rent apartments

• City Planning:
  • dedicated bike infrastructure
  • reach net zero by 2040
  • widening all major roads
  • more subways
• Social Goals:
  • public daycare
  • property taxes below inflation
  • cut red tape to get toronto back to work (?we never stopped)
  • 4 year tax freeze
• Personal:
• Vibes: wants to build everything everywhere for everyone and eliminate all income to do it
  • fuck off

0/10

Meir Straus

Meir is definitely a real man and NOT three raccoons in a trench coat.

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
  • address issues including:
    • raccoons
    • weed smell
    • god
    • labour
    • street preachers
    • hipsters
    • use of the word muck
  • Says that it is too expensive for some people to live, so he will make it too expensive for all people to live
• Personal:
  • 18 years old, named Meir
  • Rhino Party Prime Minister (of high school club)
  • starts video starting with definition of city
    • called 18 year old bozo
    • says mayors should be of greater size and importance than a regular person
  • The video slaps
• Vibes: funny

0/10

Weizhen Tang

Who want to be mayor of Toronto who care Toronto most

• I could not navigate anything
• only goals I saw were signing up
• all else mandarin

Mitcchell Toye

• City Planning:
  • public housing
  • rent to own
• Social Goals:
  • land back
  • get rid of slum lords on indigenous land
  • UBI support
  • support for disabled
  • go after greedflation
  • raise corporate taxes
  • address media fearmongering
  • direct democracy
• Personal:
  • has a bunch of writing prompts under
• Vibes: looks clean, could have more aesthetics

2/10

Reginald Tull

• City Planning:
  • work with nonprofits to make affordable housing
  • ferry service to take traffic off of gardiner
  • toll for people driving into toronto
  • better bike lanes
    • banning ebikes from bike lanes???
  • expand ttc
    • more TTC coppers
  • open things up for more tow truck companies
  • greener parks?
• Social Goals:
  • hold landlords accountable for bad conditions
  • more jail for firearms
    • job training in jail
  • more police in streets
  • peg city workers wages to inflation
  • 2 more festivals
• Personal: lots of pictures
• Vibes: seems like a happy guy

2/10 lots of ideas but many are just weird?

Jeffery Tunney

Mr. Tunney’s hands came from a set of great grandparents that everyone in Toronto, prior to 1980, had a glass of milk in anywhere of the cities’ restaurants.

Once I am in office, my team will begin its work by going over the budget, stripping the budget

• City Planning:
  • better city and park cleaning
• Social Goals:
  • awareness and naloxone for addiction
  • call center for those using dating apps in case someone goes missing?
  • no property tax increase
• Personal: very brief, just kind of talks around everything
• Vibes: not great, doesnt feel very personable from the site

1/10

Kiri Vadivelu

• City Planning:
  • more publicly owned housing
    • give city first right of refusal
  • free public transit
    • expanded
  • expand active transport
  • parks over parking lots
• Social Goals:
  • repeal no camping bylaw
  • vacancy tax
  • public land ownership registry
  • fix schools
  • food for all
    • public grocery stores
  • defund, disarm police
    • spend money on ways to make people not turn to crime in first place
  • economic democracy
• Personal:
  • socialist
  • website is bad on the eyes
  • his chart of socialist vs incumbent vs wannabees sucks
• Vibes: like its too ambitious but a lot of this stuff would really challenge how some things work so I have to give credit where it's due for thinking outside the box. He touches on everything, has a solid plan with research for it all, and overall did a great job bringing a real plan together.

8/10

Jack Weenen

cant find anything

Yuanqian Wei

cant find anything

Jody Williams

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
  • seems to just be an activist for environment and healthcare
• Personal:
  • every item in the store is just called im a product lmao
  • megaphone picture goes hard
  • wants to address things and raise awareness. If you are the mayor, you are in the spot to do things and have a plan
• Vibes: good vibes, just not mayor vibes
  • unsure if this person exists

0/10

John Winter

• City Planning:
• Social Goals:
  • lowest tax rates possible
  • increase funding for libraries, education, childcare
  • work towards net zero
  • maximum prices for landlords
  • replace police with expanded TTC security
    • defunding the police
• Personal:
  • philanthropist
  • Harvard 5 times at the start of the article
  • take no salary
• Vibes: A little pretentious off the bat but seems to care beyond that

2/10 no city planning

Nathalie Xian Yi Yan

5+ hours of video with minimal written policy spare policy for Hamilton where she was against LRT

• City planning
• social goals
  • bring back traditional chinese medicine
• Personal:
  • lived 30 years in china 30 years here
  • cried when talking about poverty and wanting to give back it was adorable
  • struggles with english communication which is OK personally but tough when running a government position
• Vibes: I really like her, she seems to genuinely care so much
  • 5.8 hours. If everyone did this it would be over 600 hours. I guess she didnt know how many people would run but I cant do all of this im so sorry Ive spent over 3 days dawn to dusk reading these platforms

1/10

Winner: Chloe Brown (Mitzie Hunter is the Shrey Pick)

Second: Gru

Third: Kiri Vadivelu