RapidTransit
Active Member
Rumors has it that John Tory is planning to run for Mayor in Toronto. There's been field calls to gage people's opinion and thoughts.
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Amare
Senior Member
It's a rumour i'm not buying.
Let's keep that embarrassment of era in the past, he led Toronto into the crumble and decayed mess that is today. My mom asked me today what he did during his time as mayor, and I honestly couldnt name one thing asides from traffic wardens.
picard102
Senior Member
Can you list what any Mayor's accomplishment were?
Admiral Beez
Superstar
As a Dad of a young adult woman who hopes to work for the city, I cannot support a former mayor who trolls the staff room for tail. Tory exudes the creepy uncle vibe.
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DSCToronto
Superstar
I think that was a rumour about 8 weeks ago but he seems to have realised he is 'spoiled goods'.
evandyk
Senior Member
I can't imagine that all three of Tory, Mendecino and Brad² will run.
Jonny5
Senior Member
This is the politics equivalent of media covering the Maple Leafs right now, deep in the "could" season where anything and everything is "a source told me he thinks the Leafs could possibly consider doing this!", all for clicks.
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zang
Senior Member
You think any one of them have the humility to drop out if the other two are in the race?
Jonny5
Senior Member
Feature article on Tory in the Star this morning.
The read I get on it is that he feels at 71 years-old this is probably his final chance to be a politician again, and he has very little to lose by running.
www.thestar.com
The read I get on it is that he feels at 71 years-old this is probably his final chance to be a politician again, and he has very little to lose by running.
John Tory is weighing a comeback. Here’s what the fallout could be at Toronto City Hall — and when he’s expected to decide
Former Toronto mayor John Tory is weighing a political comeback, and insiders expect him to decide by the end of summer whether he will run for mayor in 2026.
www.thestar.com
Admiral Beez
Superstar
I’ve heard on CFRB radio yesterday that he’s still involved with the young woman he picked up in the city hall staff room. That’ll scupper his chances.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Feature article on Tory in the Star this morning.
The read I get on it is that he feels at 71 years-old this is probably his final chance to be a politician again, and he has very little to lose by running.
John Tory is weighing a comeback. Here’s what the fallout could be at Toronto City Hall — and when he’s expected to decide
Former Toronto mayor John Tory is weighing a political comeback, and insiders expect him to decide by the end of summer whether he will run for mayor in 2026.
Hasn't he served enough already? I couldn't quite say or remember for whom though.
AoD
flonicky
Senior Member
From what I recall, he served a lot of announcements. Announcement after announcement. Sometimes for things that had already been announced and often for things like Rail Deck Park that would never happen or lesser items that would remain stalled for years. Tory filled the holes left by austerity with ... announcements!
He could do a podcast or show on CFRB where he announces fantasy projects. The work would be enjoyable and he'd be just as effective as he was as mayor.
He could do a podcast or show on CFRB where he announces fantasy projects. The work would be enjoyable and he'd be just as effective as he was as mayor.
joembayles8182
New Member
Allegedly, those aren't the only holes he filled during his tenure.
He served a lot of announcements and he was certainly giving it his all. We, his constituents, didn't realize till later who he was giving it to.
Amare
Senior Member
He was far too busy doing romps in his office to notice that Toronto was decaying and crumbling apart.
Northern Light
Superstar
I have to say, as someone who has met and talked to the former Mayor, I always found him to be unfailingly polite and nice.
I also found him to have a good work ethic, and i don't mean his long hours in the office were recreational, he personally answered my emails at 6:30am sometimes.
John's flaws were not in the above area. With genuine respect for the person, he is and always has been a ditherer. He had the nickname Mr. Dithers long before he was Mayor.
He tended toward being indecisive, and always tended to err on the side of the status quo (Devil you know). I think his sympathy for those less privileged is real but he can't have empathy, because
he has never known a life without extreme affluence and influence.
If you were to discuss minimum wage with him, as I did, you could see him genuinely thinking about the challenge of getting by on 'x'. But in so doing he couldn't help but give equal weight to the impacts
of an increase on shareholders or government. That they should not be given, nor did they need to have equal weight in the discussion was, I think, beyond him. He saw that as being fair.
It was much the same on getting ideas through at City Hall, he was all in favour of more housing, more affordable housing, more transit, more library hours as long as the money fell from the heavens and didn't require
a property tax hike.
I don't want John back as Mayor, I think if he wanted to serve the public well in his latter years, he could do so best by promoting large-scale philanthropy among his very affluent friends, and contacts.
They are in a position to provide High Park a Conservancy, endow the Library to offer more hours, the Art Gallery to have free admission, every GTA hospital to have a PET Scanner, or U of T to have an tuition-free Medical School.
That would be a better use of his time.