CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK

Kneel before General Zod! Or at the very least, vote for him in the upcoming provincial election. The Kryptonian supervillain (as played by Terence Stamp in the 1978 movie Superman) appears to be moving away from dictatorship and into democracy, if a lawn sign spotted in Toronto during this spring’s campaign is any indication. While the Man of Steel’s archrival isn’t actually a candidate, anyone looking to pledge their allegiance to him is encouraged by the artist Zoltan Hawryluk to print their own version of the lawn sign.

More trouble with travel

A day after a mechanical breakdown left Andrea Horwath’s NDP campaign bus stalled on the side of a highway, travel gremlins hit the Liberals. Kathleen Wynne's early morning charter flight to Ottawa was grounded by mechanical problems, forcing the Liberal leader and the media following her to hop on a Porter flight instead. But it was impossible to snare enough seats, leaving Wynne’s chief of staff and communications director among the campaign advisers left behind.

Can elites be radical?

Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford has been attacking some of Andrea Horwath’s candidates as a mob of “radical downtown Toronto elites.” “People sometimes do quoteunquote radical things to get the attention of decision-makers,” Horwath said in defending her party’s candidate in University-Rosedale, Jessica Bell. Bell was arrested at a 2004 environmental protest in Grassy w Narrows and again in a demonstration in Seattle.