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Mayor Mamdani Announces Landmark "Click-To-Cancel" Consumer Protection Rules to Ban Subscription Traps and Junk Fees (www.nyc.gov)
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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Compared to Canada it seems kind of absurd to me how much power mayors in the US seem to have

[–] xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

New York City is a strange case because his constituency is larger than 38 states. Nearly as many people as all of Switzerland.

Los Angeles is huge, too but has a relatively weak mayor because of how the city council is structured.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

38???

(Am American)

[–] xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago

Not combined of course, but as of 2025 NYC has a population of about 8.6 million... so there are only 12 US states with a population greater than that.

California, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, New Jersey, and Virginia (but just barely).

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

Most states don't actually have that many people. Most of the 300M+ Americans live in the same handful of cities.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Idk, as an American Doug Ford seemed to have a lot of power when he was mayor. And now as ~~governor~~ premier he's overriding the Constitution (notwithstanding) or maybe I'm misunderstanding

[–] mereo@piefed.ca 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Doug Ford was not the mayor of Toronto. It was Rob Ford, his brother that was the mayor.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

OH right! It was his crack smoking brother Rob that was the mayor. I always forget that Doug lost that election in 14

Thank you

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I totally thought it was the same dude. Not very good marketing there to differentiate from his crackhead brother.

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 1 points 1 month ago

Mayors did not have a lot of power until Doug gave some of them Strong Mayor powers recently: https://www.ontario.ca/document/ontario-municipal-councillors-guide/10-strong-mayor-powers-and-duties#section-3

Before then they were just one vote.