Over the past year, against the backdrop of escalating white supremacy and violence in the US, Nenshi’s familiar words often felt like a bulwark of sorts. The world might be coming apart, but here, on the city level at least, things were okay. Here, we still look out for each other. At the same time, the various iterations of The Speech sidestepped the city’s unspoken social, economic, and racial rifts — many of which were finally exposed during an unusually nasty election campaign over the past month. Racial and gendered slurs against Nenshi and other incumbents were commonplace online, and misinformation was everywhere.