Rob Ford's future as mayor of Toronto to be decided today
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What was accomplished here was nothing. The Toronto City Council has wasted a bunch of taxpayer money, as usual, rather than doing what they were hired to do, serve the city and its people.
The Toronto Star is losing it's frustrated mind man. :lol:
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford survives, but needs to change: Editorial - thestar.com
What lessons has Rob Ford learned? - thestar.com
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford survives, but needs to change: Editorial - thestar.com
What lessons has Rob Ford learned? - thestar.com
I came home with $250. Already earmarked for a new tattoo gun.I'll take my share in $20s, thanks.
Excellent article written by Daniel Dale..
Six more years? Mayor Rob Ford remains vulnerable head-to-head, poll finds
After his legal triumph on Friday, Mayor Rob Ford confidently asserted that he will stay in office for “six more years” — but he remains vulnerable to a one-on-one challenge in next year’s election, a new poll suggests.
Ford lost hypothetical head-to-head races with three of his potential rivals in a Forum Research survey of 1,099 residents conducted on Friday evening.
NDP MP Olivia Chow and former Progressive Conservative leader John Tory both beat Ford by 12 points. Chow got 52 per cent to Ford’s 40 per cent, Tory 48 per cent to Ford’s 36 per cent.
Councillor Karen Stintz, the right-leaning chair of the TTC, beat Ford 49 per cent to 40 per cent. In a matchup between Ford and his most vociferous council critic, left-leaning Adam Vaughan, Ford won 45 per cent to 43 per cent, a statistical tie given the 3-point margin of error.
Forum, being cheeky, also tested a never-gonna-happen head-to-head matchup between Ford and Jose Canseco, the non-Canadian ex-con ex-steroid user ex-Blue Jay who says he wants to run. Ford won, but by a respectable-for-Canseco spread of 49 per cent to 31 per cent — suggesting either that any breathing Ford challenger would get at least 31 per cent or that at least 31 per cent of Torontonians have at least a mild sense of humour.
Ford also came out ahead, by slightly smaller margins, against two actually-possible challengers who have less name recognition than Chow, Tory, and Stintz. Ford beat right-leaning Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong 44 per cent to 30 per cent, left-leaning Councillor Shelley Carroll 45 per cent to 35 per cent.
Ford, ironically, may be helped by his apparent weakness. He has fared significantly better in hypothetical three-way and four-way races than in two-way races — and his unimpressive poll numbers may entice multiple credible challengers to enter the 2014 race. It appears unlikely, for example, that the left would cede the field to Ford and Stintz.
“As soon as you add the third person in, it’s just like the last election, when Joe Pantalone stayed in to the end. It splits the left, or centre-left, and that works to Rob Ford’s advantage,” said Forum president Lorne Bozinoff. He added: “Three can run — it’s how many are in at the end. Four can run, five can run, they can all run. But if someone wants to beat Ford, they’re better off if there’s only two at the end.”
Much can change before the city heads back to the polls. The next election is 21 months away.
Ford’s approval rating may have increased slightly after the Divisional Court ruled on Friday that he did not break conflict-of-interest law. Forty-five per cent approved of the job he is doing, 55 per cent disapproved — up from a 42-58 approval-disapproval split in Forum polls conducted in mid-December and late November, but identical to the 45-55 split in Forum’s mid-November poll.
The Friday poll suggests that residents have confidence in the judicial system. Fifty-three per cent approved of the Divisional Court’s decision, 44 per cent disapproved — even though the ruling overturned a Superior Court decision that residents also supported, by a margin of 58 per cent to 38 per cent, when polled about it in November.
When Ford was asked at his Friday press conference what he has learned from his legal ordeal, he responded, “What I’ve learned is there is so much support from people out there. A lot of them said, ‘I didn’t support you last time but you’ve proved me wrong.’” The
Six more years? Mayor Rob Ford remains vulnerable head-to-head, poll finds - thestar.com
Six more years? Mayor Rob Ford remains vulnerable head-to-head, poll finds
After his legal triumph on Friday, Mayor Rob Ford confidently asserted that he will stay in office for “six more years” — but he remains vulnerable to a one-on-one challenge in next year’s election, a new poll suggests.
Ford lost hypothetical head-to-head races with three of his potential rivals in a Forum Research survey of 1,099 residents conducted on Friday evening.
NDP MP Olivia Chow and former Progressive Conservative leader John Tory both beat Ford by 12 points. Chow got 52 per cent to Ford’s 40 per cent, Tory 48 per cent to Ford’s 36 per cent.
Councillor Karen Stintz, the right-leaning chair of the TTC, beat Ford 49 per cent to 40 per cent. In a matchup between Ford and his most vociferous council critic, left-leaning Adam Vaughan, Ford won 45 per cent to 43 per cent, a statistical tie given the 3-point margin of error.
Forum, being cheeky, also tested a never-gonna-happen head-to-head matchup between Ford and Jose Canseco, the non-Canadian ex-con ex-steroid user ex-Blue Jay who says he wants to run. Ford won, but by a respectable-for-Canseco spread of 49 per cent to 31 per cent — suggesting either that any breathing Ford challenger would get at least 31 per cent or that at least 31 per cent of Torontonians have at least a mild sense of humour.
Ford also came out ahead, by slightly smaller margins, against two actually-possible challengers who have less name recognition than Chow, Tory, and Stintz. Ford beat right-leaning Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong 44 per cent to 30 per cent, left-leaning Councillor Shelley Carroll 45 per cent to 35 per cent.
Ford, ironically, may be helped by his apparent weakness. He has fared significantly better in hypothetical three-way and four-way races than in two-way races — and his unimpressive poll numbers may entice multiple credible challengers to enter the 2014 race. It appears unlikely, for example, that the left would cede the field to Ford and Stintz.
“As soon as you add the third person in, it’s just like the last election, when Joe Pantalone stayed in to the end. It splits the left, or centre-left, and that works to Rob Ford’s advantage,” said Forum president Lorne Bozinoff. He added: “Three can run — it’s how many are in at the end. Four can run, five can run, they can all run. But if someone wants to beat Ford, they’re better off if there’s only two at the end.”
Much can change before the city heads back to the polls. The next election is 21 months away.
Ford’s approval rating may have increased slightly after the Divisional Court ruled on Friday that he did not break conflict-of-interest law. Forty-five per cent approved of the job he is doing, 55 per cent disapproved — up from a 42-58 approval-disapproval split in Forum polls conducted in mid-December and late November, but identical to the 45-55 split in Forum’s mid-November poll.
The Friday poll suggests that residents have confidence in the judicial system. Fifty-three per cent approved of the Divisional Court’s decision, 44 per cent disapproved — even though the ruling overturned a Superior Court decision that residents also supported, by a margin of 58 per cent to 38 per cent, when polled about it in November.
When Ford was asked at his Friday press conference what he has learned from his legal ordeal, he responded, “What I’ve learned is there is so much support from people out there. A lot of them said, ‘I didn’t support you last time but you’ve proved me wrong.’” The
Six more years? Mayor Rob Ford remains vulnerable head-to-head, poll finds - thestar.com
It took a lot of courage for him to reveal the true nature of the political landscape. Unlike Ford's "humble" speech about being in office for 6 more years.
But I see where you're coming from. It's clear he has an agenda by putting up numbers that favour a semi-intelligent PC candidate like John Tory. Meanwhile, the fair and unbiased Toronto Sun keeps peddling Sue Levy Op Eds which paint Ford as a hero. :roll:
Nah...it's just he and our buddy Royson are perpetually mad at Team Ford. I do hope you don't get that way too. ;-)