Andrew Jeanes

Some notable (to me) election results, cherry-picked from municipalities around Ontario. (All based on preliminary results posted on municipal websites. Contents may have settled during shipping. Do not eat.)

Bunch of incumbent mayors going down to defeat tonight, which is interesting.

Some notable (to me) election results, cherry-picked from municipalities around Ontario. (All based on preliminary results posted on municipal websites. Contents may have settled during shipping. Do not eat.)

Congratulations to former City of Niagara Falls councillor Lori Lococo, who appears to have been elected mayor of that city, defeating incumbent Jim Diodati by 9441 votes (51.25%) to 7687 (41.73%). elections.niagarafalls.ca?_gl=1*65mvrl...

Some notable (to me) election results, cherry-picked from municipalities around Ontario. (All based on preliminary results posted on municipal websites. Contents may have settled during shipping. Do not eat.)

Congratulations to former Mayor of the Town of Perth, and former owner of the Westport Review-Mirror, John Fenik, who has been elected Mayor of the Township of Rideau Lakes with 2822 votes. election.rideaulakes.ca

Some notable (to me) election results, cherry-picked from municipalities around Ontario. (All based on preliminary results posted on municipal websites. Contents may have settled during shipping. Do not eat.)

Congratulations to former Brockville city councillor Cameron Wales, who has just been elected mayor of that city with 4895 votes, or 67.2% of the total. brockville.com/local-govern...

Some notable (to me) election results, cherry-picked from municipalities around Ontario. (All based on preliminary results posted on municipal websites. Contents may have settled during shipping. Do not eat.)

It's municipal election day in Ontario. I voted. Hope lots of other people did too. Here is my favourite-ever election sign, photographed outside Omemee, in the City of Kawartha Lakes, during the 2010 municipal election. Gerald "Fight'n" McGregor defeated his only opponent 909 votes to 494.

I would just like to take this opportunity to formally disavow the Funk Brothers, the Dust Brothers, the Chemical Brothers, the Gregory Brothers and the Brothers Johnson.

Oh, and also the Brecker Brothers, the Jungle Brothers, the Allman Brothers and the Everly Brothers. I do not, however, disavow either the British or Canadian iterations of the band Bros.

Now I'm fantasizing a version of the Maritimes that's simultaneously wealthier, more populous and more politically influential within the Canadian federation, but that has also managed to break the backs of the traditional power bases in the region (e.g. the Irving Family).

The year is 2036: the three Maritime provinces have been united into a single province for four years. Premier Kate Beaton is running for re-election on a platform of continuing to create even more new housing and strengthen post-secondary education, and building a new regional passenger network.

Now I'm fantasizing a version of the Maritimes that's simultaneously wealthier, more populous and more politically influential within the Canadian federation, but that has also managed to break the backs of the traditional power bases in the region (e.g. the Irving Family).

Thinking a lot about obstacles created to stop people from voting. I voted in the advance poll for our municipal election today and it was nearly frictionless. I walked in, showed the poll clerk my voter's card (mailed to me a few weeks ago) and photo ID, got my ballot, marked it, done. 5 minutes.

I'm in Canada, and fortunately we don't have a lot of people here actively working to prevent people from voting. But even here, if you're poor, if you rent, if you work at the kind of job where your boss (illegally) won't give you time off to vote, it can be difficult to exercise your franchise.