| | On October 14, 2018, more controversy struck when Rogers Media, which owns several radio and TV stations in Toronto and is the parent company of the [[Citytv]] network, announced in an e-mail sent to Goldy by Rogers senior VP of sales Alan Dark that Rogers refused to run her radio and TV campaign ads, making the same bogus claims about her campaign platform as Bell Media, the ''National Post'' and her election opponents had and using it as its excuse to refuse the ads.<ref name="Rogers Media">[http://broadcastdialogue.com/rogers-media-second-outlet-to-ban-faith-goldy-election-ads/ Rogers Media second broadcaster to ban Faith Goldy election ads] at Broadcast Dialogue</ref> Goldy posted the e-mail from Rogers on her Twitter account<ref>[https://twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/1051665913471221761 Faith Goldy: "In violation of our signed contract & CRTC guidelines, on Sunday night Rogers Media banned Faith Goldy Campaign radio ads set to begin Monday morning"] at Twitter</ref> and accused the mainstream media of colluding with the other mayoral candidates to rig and steal the Toronto civic election, even declaring in her tweet that the media truly is the enemy of the people; in that same tweet, she also pointed out that the involved media companies' collusion to censor and silence her and keep her out of the debates is illegal and in violation of Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission regulations, which require that fair and equal election coverage is required for a media company to keep its broadcast license.<ref>[http://dev8.troymedia.com/municipal/goldy-media-toronto-mayor-debate/ Restricting Toronto mayoral debaters is wrong]</ref> A poll released around the time of the Rogers announcement also claimed that Goldy is "a distant third" behind Tory and former Toronto chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat,<ref name="Rogers Media"/> although polls run by liberal media outlets are generally unreliable for gauging popular opinion due to [[liberal bias]] and rigging of poll numbers. | | On October 14, 2018, more controversy struck when Rogers Media, which owns several radio and TV stations in Toronto and is the parent company of the [[Citytv]] network, announced in an e-mail sent to Goldy by Rogers senior VP of sales Alan Dark that Rogers refused to run her radio and TV campaign ads, making the same bogus claims about her campaign platform as Bell Media, the ''National Post'' and her election opponents had and using it as its excuse to refuse the ads.<ref name="Rogers Media">[http://broadcastdialogue.com/rogers-media-second-outlet-to-ban-faith-goldy-election-ads/ Rogers Media second broadcaster to ban Faith Goldy election ads] at Broadcast Dialogue</ref> Goldy posted the e-mail from Rogers on her Twitter account<ref>[https://twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/1051665913471221761 Faith Goldy: "In violation of our signed contract & CRTC guidelines, on Sunday night Rogers Media banned Faith Goldy Campaign radio ads set to begin Monday morning"] at Twitter</ref> and accused the mainstream media of colluding with the other mayoral candidates to rig and steal the Toronto civic election, even declaring in her tweet that the media truly is the enemy of the people; in that same tweet, she also pointed out that the involved media companies' collusion to censor and silence her and keep her out of the debates is illegal and in violation of Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission regulations, which require that fair and equal election coverage is required for a media company to keep its broadcast license.<ref>[http://dev8.troymedia.com/municipal/goldy-media-toronto-mayor-debate/ Restricting Toronto mayoral debaters is wrong]</ref> A poll released around the time of the Rogers announcement also claimed that Goldy is "a distant third" behind Tory and former Toronto chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat,<ref name="Rogers Media"/> although polls run by liberal media outlets are generally unreliable for gauging popular opinion due to [[liberal bias]] and rigging of poll numbers. |
| − | On October 20, 2018, [[Google]], also acting in collusion with the liberal media outlets and other mayoral candidates, illegally shut down Goldy's online advertising campaign, 48 hours before the opening of polls for the Toronto civic election on October 22, with no justifiable explanation for the shutdown and in potential violation of Canada's campaign financing and election laws.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/22/google-shuts-down-advertising-campaign-of-toronto-mayoral-candidate-faith-goldy-before-election/ Google Shuts Down Advertising Campaign of Toronto Mayoral Candidate Faith Goldy Before Election] at Breitbart News Network</ref> | + | On October 20, 2018, [[Google]], also acting in collusion with the liberal media outlets and other mayoral candidates, illegally shut down Goldy's online advertising campaign, 48 hours before the opening of polls for the Toronto civic election on October 22, with no justifiable explanation for the shutdown and in potential violation of Canada's campaign financing and election laws.<ref>[https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/22/google-shuts-down-advertising-campaign-of-toronto-mayoral-candidate-faith-goldy-before-election/ Google Shuts Down Advertising Campaign of Toronto Mayoral Candidate Faith Goldy Before Election] at Breitbart News Network</ref> Thanks to that collusion preventing Goldy from getting her message out to the public at large, Tory managed to get re-elected for a second term as Toronto mayor.<ref>[https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/let-s-get-to-it-john-tory-after-winning-second-term-1.4145133 |