Parkdale—High Park

Um, that's where you start to look to.

Now, if you're, if you're on the Bradford campaign, what you're looking for is to over-index in North York, Scarborough, uh, north Etobicoke, to offset, uh, how, how little he would normally traditionally do in, um, Spadina-Fort York, Parkdale-High Park, uh, Beaches-East York.

That's traditionally, and then of course the Yonge Street corridor becomes battleground.

He needs to super over-index because she is going to do naturally better in those areas.

What we saw in the by-election was him not even winning that.

You also saw yesterday, uh, the new MP for Beaches-East York, Tanvir, uh, coming out and doing a, uh, an endorsement piece with Olivia yesterday.

So, they're looking at this, but as these polls tighten up, uh, the- As people start to move from un- truly undecided or, "Eh, maybe I'll vote for the, a fringe candidate," maybe we're gonna tighten this up a bit more, um, Brad's campaign needs to look at what is happening in those outer suburbs, what is happening in North York, and can they over-index enough to offset Parkdale-High Park.

Amanda, with your time on Tory's campaign, when you're looking at these last couple of weeks of an election, how important is geography? Like, will we get signals about how the campaigns are doing based on where we find those candidates? Will we see one candidate more in Scarborough and the other more in downtown, depending on where those votes seem to be landing?

One person, Diana Chan McNally, who was identified as a harm reduction expert by the CBC, called the move a deadly mistake.

She's now running to be a Toronto City Councilor in Parkdale High Park.

So if you're in Parkdale High Park, you might ask her what she has to say now.

One of the people who also weighed in on this as an opposition leader was NDP leader Merritt Stiles.

And she said, when Doug Ford made that announcement, that the government was putting ideology ahead of saving lives.

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But you can't, like, this is where, like, I actually just think we should have parties by now, because what happens instead is, like, stuff like this, where, like, you have, uh, Vanessa Raponi running in Parkdale-High Park, who's using, like, literally the same hex code of her purple as Olivia Chow in a way to, like, subtly try to trick people into th- maybe not trick, but, like, try to [laughs] make people think that there is a connection.

But there's no connection.

Mm.

Anywhere that doesn't vote conservative, doesn't go between conservative and another party, it just decimated us.

And I know that that was the case in Parkdale High Park where you live, Tom,

and

many other places of the country, particularly the urban ridings, right? And so that was something we were hearing on the doors all the time.

Jason Agnew, News Talk 1010's show host, and especially the trivia show.

Karim Bardesi, Liberal MP for Barentayke on Parkdale-High Park.

Christine Wood, former Ontario ministerial staffer, now the founder of Strata Communications.

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It's not necessarily, it's not necessarily, there is a pretty big divide in income.

I would say it's quite similar to the writing of Parkdale High Park over on the West side of the city.

And yeah, I lived there before, so I am familiar and campaigned there quite a bit when I lived on the west side a bunch of years ago.

So I'm familiar with that and I can kind of draw parallels.