On the eve of one of the craziest municipal elections in living memory, as kids take to the streets to beg for candy and clubs burst at the seams with folks in costume, everyone writes a wrapup.

Fagstein has a roundup of media endorsements dealt out pretty evenly among the three candidates – Le Devoir has a piece today contemplating the likelihood of a minority government at city hall, but I can't link to it because it's truncated online –; Spacing's Alanah Heffez has a basic voting guide to help anyone who's puzzled why they're getting four or five separate ballots tomorrow; La Presse has a pdf file showing, diagrammatically, how the various levels of council work, and how the structure is displayed on your ballot.

Some good reasons to vote, some reasons why people don't bother to vote in municipal elections. I'm not sure why the Gazette went on to list more than half a dozen dandy excuses for the use of people too apathetic to vote. La Presse has an okay look at eight boroughs with interesting issues and candidates.

Also the view from the Toronto Star and from Ingrid Peritz at the Globe & Mail and a piece on our city corruption in Bloomberg. posted at 13:38