Does Austin Texas - (is that where you are?) have a reasonable urban political system or are crack-smoking mayors the norm? Anyway up here in dope-smoking, abortion-having, capital-punishmentless, gay-marrying Canada, we want our politicians to be intelligent, efficient, and hopefully ethical. Leading the pack of candidates in the upcoming mayoral election is a fellow who is so blue blood that his name is actually Tory, John Tory. Running against him is a Chinese woman, Olivia Chow whose husband, Jack Layton, turned around the Socialist party of Canada (New Democratic Party) federally, making them Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, and tragically died shortly after. I'm still in mourning. Tory will win, the Ford brothers will soon fade into oblivion (we hope), and Toronto will continue to squabble about our biggest problem: transit. Subway vs LRT vs whatever. We will continue to cycle into the snowy winter.