Wednesday, August 26, 2026
We're actually doing this
I was a comedian. People told me to run for mayor of Toronto. I thought they were joking. Then I sat with it. Then I filed. So this is the first of these notes, because if I am going to ask this city to take me seriously I should probably write it down.
I live here. I walk out the door and I can feel it. People look tired. The street does not feel like it belongs to the people paying for it. Everybody is a little braced, like they are waiting for the next thing to go wrong. I do not have a twenty-year speech about that. I have eyes. I have a mouth. I showed up.
A mayor has to walk into a room full of strangers and make them listen. I have been doing that for years. The room got bigger. The job is the same. I am going to say what I think. I am going to make jokes. I am going to piss people off. I am going to listen when I am wrong. And I am going to fight for this city because I live in it.
Polished candidates have had years. Look around. This is me, writing it on a Wednesday, because we are actually doing this.