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  1. KWT says that, according to historian Mark Maloney's numbers, she's only the thirteenth person of colour elected to Council.
  2. @ddale8 The editor who made the whole thing work departed last fall, and the already-tenuous operation unravelled as expected.
  3. @ddale8 Launched April 2011, paid extraordinarily well, was able to hire several high-profile, talented writers. Had no business plan.
  4. Carroll is such an extraordinary speaker. (But so was Miller, of course, and we learned the hard way that that only counted for so much.)
  5. @christindal @ivortossell Maybe the Standard is now like Torontoist circa 2006, except published by a right-wing real estate baron.
  6. Woman at mic: "Hi, my name is Sheena, I'm a reporter with the Toronto Standard." Huh.
  7. @TOpoliSnark Yes.
  8. Carroll: "If there's one person on the municipal beat we'd all like to get rid of, sadly it's a woman."
  9. Carroll criticizes Twitter commentators: "You all kind of took a pass on covering [the garbage privatization debate]." (I was at a funeral.)
  10. Carroll reiterates that, because of the way they're often socialized, it can be hard for women to raise funds for themselves as candidates.
  11. @madhatressTO No, it was @AdamCF, sitting behind me.
  12. Carroll: "It somehow came as a surprise to the mayor that it takes a long time to dig a hole from one end of the city to the other."
  13. Hamutal: "Torontoist is an independent media organization." Torontoist is many things (most of them wonderful), but "independent" it is not.
  14. Hamutal speaks about activist complacency during the Miller years: "You need to show up no matter who is in office, always." Carroll nods.
  15. High school teacher @zengarden17: "I'd rather be boiled in oil than to teach the [Career Studies] course." #WiTOpoli
  16. Wong-Tam, on trolls: "As a long-time activist, they've alway been out there." Says she used to get it via phone calls. #WiTOpoli