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Dave Gray-Donald

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Dave Gray-Donald @dgrdon
The charges remaining against 14 people who were arrested during a sit-in at a Montreal Scotiabank in 2024 have been resolved after they agreed to pay noise bylaw tickets. They were protesting the bank's investments in Israeli weapons giant Elbit Systems. mediacoop.ca/node/119376
mediacoop.ca Media Release: Two-Year Criminal Case against 44 Palestine Solidarity Two-Year Criminal Case against 44 Palestine Solidarity Defendants Goes out with a Bang! Montreal, 26 October 2026 -- Fourteen remaining Scotiabank protestors are exiting the courts after more than
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Dave Gray-Donald @dgrdon
I need to make a correction here. I had misinterpreted what one source said (and which another source confirmed in general but not in specifics). I should not have implied I had solid info about the Chow campaign's internal polling. I apologize for misleading you. 1/6
Hearing from a source in the Chow campaign that Chow is further behind than most public-facing polls indicate.

As in, Chow is likely to lose and Bradford likely to win unless something significant changes in the next five days.
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Dave Gray-Donald @dgrdon
Two cautions on relying on polling:

- Especially in municipal elections (and particularly at the ward level), ground game mobilization is super important and not captured in polling.

- The "Shy Tory" factor. People often tell pollsters they are less conservative than they are.