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.

Zod’s run for office, an unexpected twist in an already tumultuous race, prompted a Twitter account where the would-be premier has taken to tweeting out campaign promises.

And 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. Haryluk only asks that those vouching for Zod tag him in any social media posts.

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.

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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 on such short notice, leaving Wynne’s chief of staff and communications director among the campaign advisers left behind on an eastern Ontario swing that was scheduled to begin with a 6 a.m. departure from Queen’s Park.

With campaign bus stops in the Ottawa suburb of Orleans, the nearby farming town of St. Albert, a shopping mall parking lot in Kingston for Global TV anchor Alan Carter to do a live hit for the suppertime news, and an evening barbecue in Belleville, the day was not slated to end until a late night arrival back in Toronto.

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.”

But during an appearance Thursday at an elite downtown Toronto condo building, the unrepentant New Democrat leader was having none of it.

“People sometimes do quote-unquote radical things to get the attention of decision-makers,” Horwath said in defending her party’s candidate in University-Rosedale, Jessica Bell.

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Bell was arrested at a 2004 environmental protest in Grassy Narrows and again in a demonstration in Seattle but has never been convicted of anything. She said she’s “never been ashamed” of participating in “peaceful civil disobedience.”

“In Toronto, what I have done as the executive director of TTCriders (a transit advocacy non-profit group) is I have improved public transit, using my organizing skills to make life better for ordinary people,” Bell said.

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