Toronto municipal election

[the_siobhan]

Oh this is handy. I don't think I've seen a site that included school trustees before.

Candidate Tracker

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[armiphlage]

Ooooh!

[sabotabby]

Oh, thank you! That actually helps a lot with my choice of mayor. (I have one good candidate in my ward, and that's for councillor—zero good options for school trustee.)

[greylock]

I have questions.
School trusties are not cleaners?
And are elected?
By anyone?

Why?

They go from there.
(Like Mayors have power?)

[tetsab]

https://thelocal.to/school-trustee-election-tdsb/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-ottawa-strong-mayor-1.6597520

[greylock]

Thanks. So Mayors did work like they do here, but y'all have looked at Doug Ford and said "he needs moar powah"?

Seems like a bad idea.

The school trustee thing... I'm in the fence on. The article makes some good points but.. *looks at America* *waves away the smoke from the book burnings*.

[the_siobhan]

Doug Ford is our provincial Premier. Rob Ford was our Mayor. I have no doubt whatsoever that DF's decision to increase mayoral powers is specifically because those pesky city counsellors wouldn't let little brother do whatever he wanted while he was Mayor.

[greylock]

One of them died, right?
Provincial Canadian politics isn't my thing (and national, but I am apprised that Trudeau is THE WORST by the Fraser Institute).

[the_siobhan]

Yeah Rob Ford died of stomach cancer.

The Fraser Institute is an oligarch think tank. I'm no fan of Trudeau, but they are not people I'd take advice from.

[greylock]

TFI send me their emails through work, so I am familiar with the weight of their opinions.

[the_siobhan]

School trusties are not cleaners?

... no?

You're thinking of janitors maybe?

[greylock]

Somewhere, through America, I've glommed on to 'trustees' as 'janitors' (or, as we call them 'cleaners'), it is why I was confused

[the_siobhan]

Or custodian maybe - I think that title is for both cleaners and maintenance.