Election 2026: Olivia Chow and the post-election safety file
The mayor may have won the vibes-vs-crime debate, but 400,000 Torontonians believed the crime and chaos candidate
By John LorincLost in the aftermath of Olivia Chow’s shock-and-awe victory last week — in which she beat Brad Bradford by almost 130,000 votes and prevailed in almost every part of the city — is a sense of what the 400,000 Torontonians who voted against her were saying. It is, of course, a mug’s game to try to prise out meaning from so many ballots, but I’d like to offer a theory: in this election, the actual ballot question had to do with safety, and its presence or absence in the... Read more
