As it was foretold, and because the Liberals and NDP sucked so much, Ford won Thursday's election with 40% of the popular vote, awarding him an even bigger majority in the legislature.
I missed Dianne Saxe’s post-campaign party last night because I was headed out of town on a train for a birthday party in Belleville. She took 16% of the vote in University-Rosedale, which shows how hard she worked. The Green in my riding got 5%, twice what they won in 2018.
Mike Shreiner, the head of the provincial Green Party, was re-elected to his seat in Guelph.
The standout factoid from this post-pandemic election is that voter turnout was 43.5%. So, more than half of the voting population (who'd heard for weeks that Ford would win a majority) was either unconcerned with the outcome, or happy with the way things are.
That's Right. The Pandemic is Over.
Filmore's (the local strip club) has been slated for demolition, so I'm using other pandemic bellweathers.
One is Union Station, deserted in May 2020 and 2021, and bustling in May 2022.
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| Union Station May 14 2020 |
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| Union Station May 14 2021 |
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| Union Station May 14 2022 |
There's also the Eaton Centre:
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| The first tentative reopening, June 2020 |
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| Late on a Saturday, May 2022 |
And we've had guests, my all-time favourite post-pandemic indicator:
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| Charcuterie: before |
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| Charcuterie: after |
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