[PHOTO] An election triptych, from Davenport ON (#onpoli, #elxn2018)

I've just cast my vote in this year's Ontario general election. I literally went a half-black down the street in my west-end riding of Davenport to cast my vote for the NDP's Marit Stiles, largely in the hope that I might bolster the NDP's ranks enough to prevent the nightmare of a Conservative majority government under Doug Ford.







I hope it will be enough.

[NEWS] Twelve 2018 Ontario general election links (#onpoli, #elxn2018)

• John Lorinc at Spacing takes a look at Ontario's "crazy-ass" election and warns about what a Ford government might do, based on Toronto precedents.


• blogTO reports on a house on Dupont at Franklin, in the Junction Triangle, that has a fantastic political lawn sign display.


• "General Zod for Ontario Premier", indeed. The National Post reports on some imaginative signage.


• Mitch Potter reports from Egansville, a small town in the Ottawa Valley in eastern Ontario, to look at some of the causes of Ford's strength there.


• Peter Biesterfeld at NOW Toronto reports on the fear of many that Doug Ford could be an even worse version of Mike Harris.


• Robyn Urback suggests that, had the Liberals under Wynne tried to position themselves as thoroughly centrist, they might have had a chance. CBC has it.


• Rob Salerno wonders at Daily Xtra if the unpopularity of Kathleen Wynne, a politician whose policies are popular and being substantially copied by rivals, has anything to do with homophobia.


• Will Kathleen Wynne be able to keep her riding of Don Valley North? The jury is still out there. The Toronto Star reports.


• The riding of Guelph may well be where the Green Party of Ontario will elect its first MPP. The Toronto Star reports.


• Meagan Campbell takes a look at Andrea Horvath, and her journey from working-class Hamilton to NDP leadership and perhaps beyond, over at MacLean's.


• Tim Harper takes a look, two decades later, at the controversial NDP government of Bob Rae. Does it still cast as much of a shadow over Ontario? The Toronto Star has it.


• Steve Munro takes a look at the idea of uploading the Toronto subway system to Metrolinx, and at the many ways this Doug Ford proposal would make things terribly complicated.