Congrats Toronto! I'm jealous you guys got to actually vote in someone progressive (I'm from Ottawa and we recently voted to slightly lower property taxes over everything else)
Careful what you wish for. We voted in a progressive Gondek in Calgary and she and council sold us out to the Flames owners and otherwise has been mostly focused on virtue signalling instead of improving the city.
I am also quite surprised, everything I saw suggested Chow was going to walk away with it. Which, I mean, she won still but I bet she'd like the results to be a bit closer to the polling.
I have been confused by Calgary's mayor. She seemed the most progressive but ended up putting her one vote in (along with the rest of council) to cut a lot of social programs, virtue signals on the very far left, but gives into conservative crony lobbyists for things like buying an arena for someone else.
I wish election promises were legally binding.
It's always good to remember though, the mayor is more of a figure head. They can be a tie breaker in a vote but other than that they are simply higher profile than the other council members and have only one vote on council. Nothing can be changed without councils approval. The mayor's biggest power is to promote the city to attract more businesses, workers and tourists.
I'm far from progressive, and I kind of hate all of her other policy positions - but her housing approaches are at least novel. We have to try something