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Poll: Does Today’s Occupation Evacuation Help Heal G20 Wounds?

Until this morning, many worried that an Occupy Toronto evacuation would reignite G20 tensions. Have today’s events changed your views of policing in Toronto?

Yea or Nay: Dundas-Ryerson Subway Station?

For several months, city hall observers, transit riders, and public-space activists have been watching with great interest as the TTC, and the municipal government more generally, have been moving towards a less restrictive policy for selling the naming rights to public spaces. If the Ford administration has its way, park playgrounds, public arenas, and subway station names may all soon be up for grabs. The goal, of course, is to increase revenues without raising taxes, and the question is whether trading identity for cash is a bargain we want to strike.

Poll Position: With A Few Days to Go, Ford Takes A Lead

Rob Ford: 43.9%
George Smitherman: 35.6%
Joe Pantalone: 15.0%
all others: 5.5%

Poll Position: Close Mayoral Race Gets Closer

George Smitherman: 31%
Rob Ford: 30%
Joe Pantalone: 10%

Poll Position: Same Question, Same Results

Rob Ford: 33%
George Smitherman: 31%
Joe Pantalone: 13%
undecided: 20%

Poll Position: Completely Unsurprising Mayoral Poll Reveals Things We Already Knew

Rob Ford: 41%
George Smitherman: 40%
Joe Pantalone: 16%
other candidates: 3%

Poll Position: Smitherman Shores Up, With Pantalone Poised to Slip

Rob Ford: 43.9%
George Smitherman: 40.5%
Joe Pantalone: 15%

New Ipsos-Reid Poll Shows Smitherman Now Pulling Ahead of Ford

An Ipsos-Reid poll commissioned for Newstalk 1010, which was made public just moments ago, gives George Smitherman a slight lead over Rob Ford. Smitherman has the votes of 31% of respondents, according to Newstalk, while Rob Ford is close behind, with 30%. Pantalone and Rossi are far in back, with 11% and 4% respectively. Among [...]

Media Outlets Distance Themselves From Wednesday’s Mayoral Poll

Wednesday’s Pollstra Research poll, showing Rob Ford leading his mayoralty competitors by a wide margin, may not be credible. Shortly after the poll was first publicized, several active Twitterers, most notably Global’s Jackson Proskow, began to investigate Pollstra’s credentials, and found them wanting. (The company is only two years old, and lists a Hamilton P.O. [...]

A Look Back, At Advance Mayoral Polls Past

Some of the mayoral contenders—and all of the front-runners—before the Better Ballots debate on June 1. Photo by Shaun Merritt from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. Rob Ford is now polling alongside George Smitherman in the run-up to this year’s mayoral election (recent drug-related scandals notwithstanding). But how reliable are these polls? Torontoist has compiled a [...]

Polling Booth: The TTC Fare Increase

There is little to be pleased about following the announcement that TTC fares are going up (for most riders) to meet what seems to be a continuous shortfall for the notoriously underfunded Commission. To add fuel to the fire, token rationing is causing irritation at the ticket booth, with some stations running out of tokens [...]

Polling Booth: No Gabba Gabba

Effective Monday, October 26, it will be illegal to operate any handheld device while operating a vehicle in Ontario. Following years of studies demonstrating that holding a phone to your ear while driving shows a similar level of impairment as driving drunk [PDF], the province has banned any handheld electronic device that takes a driver’s [...]