{"id":15517,"date":"2010-11-05T19:07:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T23:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=15517"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:37:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:37:07","slug":"torontos-rebelmayor-was-lurking-in-the-spacing-henhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2010\/11\/05\/torontos-rebelmayor-was-lurking-in-the-spacing-henhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto’s Rebelmayor was lurking in the Spacing henhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re on twitter and you follow Toronto politics you’ve probably already heard the news: our Senior Editor Shawn Micallef<\/a> was the person behind the anonymous satirical twitter account @rebelmayor<\/a>. It was a surprise to all of us, as Shawn didn’t tell anybody in the Spacing office. For those that weren’t following along on Twitter here’s the deal: Toronto’s first mayor and the guy behing the Rebellion of 1837, William Lyon Mackenzie, returned from the 1800s and ran for mayor in 2010. Since last November, @rebelmayor has been tweeting his way around Toronto on what has ultimately been a losing “write-in” campaign. Read the Globe and Mail<\/a> and Torontoist<\/a> stories on Shawn & Rebelmayor for the low down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re on twitter and you follow Toronto politics you’ve probably already heard the news: our Senior Editor Shawn Micallef was the person behind the anonymous satirical twitter account @rebelmayor. It was a surprise to all of us, as Shawn didn’t tell anybody in the Spacing office. 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