Toronto City Hall

If you are thinking about getting married, maybe hoping you might be getting married, I have some news for you.

As of December 31st this year, you can no longer get married at Toronto City Hall.

Now, I saw this on our sister station, CP24, as a big headline.

And I thought to myself, is it really a big deal? Do you care that you can no longer get married for the foreseeable future at City Hall? Give me a shout.

I'm also not someone who's now going to get married for a second time, at least not that I'm aware of.

And so maybe second marriages, you want to take a look at City Hall.

Maybe the Toronto sign and Toronto City Hall has some place of importance in your life.

I don't know.

It's not just any episode, it's our last episode.

Toronto, you have voted and Olivia Chow is staying at City Hall.

Today we're going to unpack what Toronto decided, what that decision means, what earned Olivia Chow another term, why couldn't Brad Bradford close the deal and And beyond the mayor's office, which council races tell us something about where the city is headed? And maybe if we have time, a couple of notes on surrounding area upsets.

Amanda Galbraith, Kim Wright, you've given so much of your time over the last six weeks, all of your insights.

It's Toronto's highest municipal turnout since 2014 when it was 54%.

And she nearly doubled her vote total.

So some really interesting numbers, Kim, what do you take from those numbers? What did it say about the message that Toronto was sending? the mayor to City Hall.

Yeah, what it showed to me was the conversation that the Bradford campaign was trying to start around privatization of water just wasn't sitting well with Torontonians.

When I started to ask my question, one man I didn't recognize tried to stop me from talking, but Chow didn't dodge the question.

It was interesting because just moments before, there was another identified man telling myself and other media photographers not to stand in front of the main city hall doors to capture pictures and video of Chao walking out of the media scrum.

Odd, since under Chao's leadership these past few years, if we were ingesting fentanyl in the same location, there would be no intervention.

Was this a show of extra swagger from Chao's insiders as a result of the massive victory? There will be time to ask about the rats, needles, and homeless.

That's not to say he's unprepared for the work ahead.

Wong Tam, in endorsing Stokutz for the job in August, promised he can do the job.

He told The Sun midday on Tuesday that he had yet to speak with Mayor Olivia Chow, so he's not sure what role she sees for him in City Hall.

Stokutz prioritizing public spaces, tenant rights.

My opinion has now changed 180 degrees.

I think it's time to introduce party politics at Toronto City Hall, at every municipal City Hall that wants them.

It should no longer be illegal, as it is now, to run on a party platform.

in Ontario at the municipal level.

If you can't raise $2,000, you will – just don't waste your time.

Anyway, that's what I'm thinking.

Political parties at Toronto City Hall.

Let's take some of your reaction, and then I'll tell you why I think that we should have them.

And boy, did it take a long time to get those results.

The thinking is that because everything is tabulated instantly when the polls close and then all that stuff goes to sort of central command at Toronto City Hall.

But there were still some wards where they kept polls open because there were long lineups.

and I guess the executive decision was made, or maybe this is standard operating procedure, that no results would be released until such a time as all of the polls were closed.