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Aidan Chamandi

Aidan Chamandi

Senior city hall reporter at TorontoToday (Village Media), specializing in energy and housing coverage in Toronto.

Sep 16, 2026

3:09
Early May.
3:10
Early May, yeah.
3:11
So, you know, candidate registration opens May 1st.
3:13
Johnson was there pretty early and, you know, has been clearly knocking on doors a lot, posting a lot of videos.
3:19
And there didn't seem to be a big challenger up until... a week ago when Naderskin Smith entered the race.
3:26
And so he's represented that riding for over 10 years now and is very well known from his time.
3:33
Parliament, housing minister, running for the liberal leadership twice, both unsuccessfully and then the drama that came from the second more recent time around.

6 MINS LATER

10:05
little more than 100 yeah yeah
11:10
Aiden, how big of a factor do you think that is in this discussion?
11:14
Yeah, I think that's an enormous factor because Matt was talking about the polling for the candidates.
11:17
Matt has brought up another candidate.
11:19
But in the same way that Bradford and Chow seem to have kind of plateaued or set their base at around 40%, 50% kind of respectively, undecideds haven't changed in a long time, roughly around 25%.
11:33
And the longer that people go undecided, the more likely it is that they are not going to vote, which is good for the person who is in front right now, which is Chow.
11:41
But if undecideds haven't changed from that 25% in a long time, that could lead you to believe that they are not going to vote.
11:48
But then again, to what Mattis was saying, if they are going to break away from undecided, it will be in the last two months when the campaign really heats up.
15:19
Aidan, what are you seeing in terms of geography and where the candidates are targeting themselves?

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