Tuesday's Headlines - Spacing Toronto

MAYORAL RACE
• Rogue Ford signs appear on neighbourhood lawns [The Star]
• Rossi’s first stop on the sign blitz: his parents’ home [The Star]
• James: What I like about Joe Pantalone [The Star]
• The Smell Test: Smitherman’s plans for surplus land [The Star]
• Election Ephemera: Laywer, candidate, Grottybeat [The Star]
• The Daily Plank [The Star]
• Two and a half cheers for Rob Ford [Globe & Mail]
• Rocco Rossi eyes TTC, police in plan to rein in spending [Globe & Mail]
• Rocco Rossi’s last-ditch ploy: common sense [Globe & Mail]
• Rossi campaign denies he is bowing out of mayoral race [National Post]
• Posted Toronto Political Panel: Framing the Ford debate [National Post]
• Web ad targets Ford [The Sun]
• Sarah Thomson, easy lover: Levy [The Sun]

GTA ELECTIONS
• Advance polls open Tuesday [The Star]
• Ruling on Michael Di Biase’s election finances delayed [National Post]
• Scarborough-Rouge River ward a community of dizzying ethnic diversity [National Post]

VITAL SIGNS 2010
• Toronto’s Vital Signs 2010 [The Star]
• Hume: Success can’t be taken for granted [The Star]
• James: Decision time for GTA [The Star]
• The great divide widens between rich and poor [The Star]
• Housing: GTA ‘severely unaffordable’ [The Star]
• Graphic: ‘Vital Signs’ report presents suburbs, downtown disconnect [National Post]

WATERFRONT
• Hume: A predictable naysayer on the lakefront [The Star]
• Chris Selley: Waterfront isn’t the battle it once was [National Post]

OTHER NEWS
• PETA applauds Toronto meat market [The Star]
• Flash mob hits the streets to promote rehab services [The Star]
• The Fixer: Rail crossing craters rattle motorists [The Star]
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer: In the eye of the tiger [National Post]
• My Toronto: Dwight Drummond, TV reporter [National Post]
• Air Canada sets Toronto island departure [Globe & Mail]

One comment

Vital signs has lost its utility. In prior editions it had break outs between the city and region. Referring to global ranking reports that look at the GTA as a whole, when the performance of the city and region differ greatly is a misleading. Take for example the unemployment figures used. In Toronto it is 10.8% while the rest of the CMA is 9.2%. There are further disparities in the well being of immigrants between regions. While the Vital Signs reports comment of the hardship that immigrants face, it does no analysis as to the different outcomes in the different regions. Food Deserts, they mention that 51% of Torontonians live more than 1km away from grocery store. They don’t mention that there has been a loss of a number of grocery stores as pressure to redevelop small plazas to condos has reduced their numbers. Perhaps most galling was the intentional use of the old cordon count travel statistics. Referencing 2000 Toronto report while omitting a much more detailed count ( http://www.jpint.utoronto.ca/PDF/MMM_Cordon_TechRep.pdf ).

Glen

14 years ago

Vital signs has lost its utility. In prior editions it had break outs between the city and region. Referring to global ranking reports that look at the GTA as a whole, when the performance of the city and region differ greatly is a misleading. Take for example the unemployment figures used. In Toronto it is 10.8% while the rest of the CMA is 9.2%. There are further disparities in the well being of immigrants between regions. While the Vital Signs reports comment of the hardship that immigrants face, it does no analysis as to the different outcomes in the different regions. Food Deserts, they mention that 51% of Torontonians live more than 1km away from grocery store. They don’t mention that there has been a loss of a number of grocery stores as pressure to redevelop small plazas to condos has reduced their numbers. Perhaps most galling was the intentional use of the old cordon count travel statistics. Referencing 2000 Toronto report while omitting a much more detailed count ( http://www.jpint.utoronto.ca/PDF/MMM_Cordon_TechRep.pdf ).