Rob Ford and Adam Vaughan

Adam Vaughan: A Toronto elector from the downtown ward of Trinity-Spadina, Ward 20, has the most adventuresome journey this election. The list of candidates for council, 22 in all, seeking to replace Adam Vaughan, is the citys longest. Plus, of course, the 65 people vying to replace Rob Ford open Rob Ford policard as mayor, according to The Star. In the 2010 municipal election, 50.5 per cent of eligible electors marked their ballot, and analysts remarked at the big bump in participation. In other words, we patted ourselves on the back even as more than 810,000 eligible voters exercised their right not to make a choice and Ten months of campaign palaver is now stilled. The mudslinging and name-calling is at an end. The clever and tiresome and lame attempts at image manipulation have given way to this: You alone in the ballot box. One-on-one with yourself. And the choices you must make. This privilege to cast ones vote in favour of, or against, a candidate is precious at once exciting and frightening; or mundane and a grudging chore. Your choice, of course. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.