Claims extracted
11
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
9%
1 of 11 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
64/100
Toronto Star's corrections and
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Mayoral candidate Chow cuts an unusual figure in the race for Toronto’s top job: face and neck tattoos, a background as a musician and sparse details about policy proposals.
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Chow → cut → proposals
And because fringe candidate Braeden Chow shares a surname with incumbent Olivia Chow, confusion at polling stations has followed — even from the mayor herself.
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confusion → share → mayor
“I just noticed there is two ‘Chow’ on the ballot, and there is one before me,” Mayor Olivia Chow told reporters at a press conference Tuesday, moments after she cast her vote.
“I looked at the Chow, and then I was about to vote for someone else,” she added, laughing.
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she → notice → someone
But Chow’s campaign struck a more serious tone in a release Wednesday morning, saying other voters also reported nearly casting their vote for Braeden Chow by mistake.
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voters → strike → mistake
“This could end up being a close election, and we can’t afford to lose any votes to confusion on the ballot,” Olivia Chow’s campaign said in a release, telling voters that the incumbent mayor is the ninth candidate on the ballot.
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mayor → end → ballot
Another statement added, “With two Chows appearing on the ballot, the Olivia Chow campaign is reminding Toronto voters to take a moment to check the full name of their selected candidate.”
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campaign → add → candidate
With just three weeks left until election day on Oct. 26, fresh polling shows Olivia Chow’s most serious challenger, Brad Bradford, comes in as a close second, polling at 33 per cent support from respondents to her 40 per cent.
And the race has become even tighter with the late withdrawal of third-place challenger Chris Alexander, tightening the next few weeks in a direct contest between Chow and Bradford.
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race → leave → Chow
Little information about Braeden Chow’s proposals
Braeden Chow’s campaign website emphasizes the city’s diversity and calls for a more united Toronto but lacks specific campaign proposals.
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website → emphasize → proposals
In a brief appearance on a CP24 segment allowing mayoral candidates to pitch themselves to viewers in 30 seconds, Braeden Chow said he would “lower taxes everywhere as mayor.”
Peering at the camera from behind dark sunglasses, he pitched tax breaks for the rich who donate his charity, and opening free grocery stores and laundromats and bringing the NFL and Olympics to the city.
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who → allow → city
Lesser-known candidates with names similar to those of incumbents or frontrunners have been known to muddle ballots.
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candidates → know → ballots
In June, an Alaska elections official ruled that a U.S. Senate candidate with the same name and party affiliation as Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan was ineligible to appear on the state’s primary ballot.
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candidate → rule → ballot
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