MAYORAL RACE
• Rossi quits as poll sets up Ford-Smitherman fight [The Star]
• Ford, Rossi turn down green questionnaire [The Star]
• James: This mayoral campaign has been a race like no other [The Star]
• Smell Test: Ford’s problem with free perks [The Star]
• Rocco Rossi drops out of Toronto mayoral race [Globe & Mail]
• Rocco Rossi: Passionate, intelligent and classy to the end [Globe & Mail]
• Ford, Smitherman in dead heat: poll [Globe & Mail]
• Ford, Rossi receive failing grades on environmental group’s report card [Globe & Mail]
• Smitherman promises hyper-local neighbourhood councils [Globe & Mail]
• Rocco Rossi drops out of mayoral race [National Post]
• Chris Selley: Smitherman and Ford, mano a mano [National Post]
• Kuitenbrouwer: Mayoral candidates on environment: Two As and two Fs [National Post]
• Use tax cuts, transit expansion to spur development: George Smitherman [National Post]
• ‘Neat freak’ Rob Ford vows to clean up city [National Post]
• This Ford is stuck in the slow lane [The Sun]
• The NOW Interview: Joe Pantalone [Now Weekly]
• Rob Ford’s Toronto [Eye Weekly]
GTA ELECTIONS
• 51-name ballot dubbed ‘stupidest thing they could have done’ [The Star]
• Oshawa mayoral hopeful wants to raise city’s standards [The Star]
• Lying low in the Vaughan mayoral race [The Star]
• Brampton mayor agrees to open gala’s books [The Star]
• Why Mississauga’s mayoral contest is a race to watch [The Star]
• Why Oakville’s mayoral contest is a race to watch [The Star]
• Why Caledon’s mayoral contest is a race to watch [The Star]
• Why Oshawa’s mayoral contest is a race to watch [The Star]
• Cover flap in Ward 18 [Now Weekly]
ON VOTING
• Strategic stink [Now Weekly]
• Toronto’s great schlep [Eye Weekly]
• Even you don’t believe yourself [Eye Weekly]
CONSTRUCTION
• 3 charged in scaffold deaths [The Star]
• Charges laid in deaths, injury of migrant workers [Globe & Mail]
• David Suzuki high school coming to Brampton [Globe & Mail]
• Sidewalk is no place for utility poles [The Star]
OTHER NEWS
• GTA blazes keep police, fire crews busy [The Star]
• EMS chief set to retire [Globe & Mail]
• Cleaning up the Danforth [The Sun]
• New subway cars make public debut [The Sun]
• Toronto FC says they’re sorry [Eye Weekly]
5 comments
Not living in the city, I’m having trouble keeping track of all the accusations of media bias. Is it fair to say that the Sun, Globe and Post are 100% pro-Ford, while the Star and CBC and pushing Smitherman? Really quite nasty attacks on the media as partisan shills in a lot of articles. I’m rather surprised to see that…
That Ward 18 article was kind of complicated. Had to read it a couple of times to really figure out what was going on.
As I understand it, the same company that candidate Ana Bailao is using to produce her campaign lit “coincidentally” happened to publish a multi-page puff piece about her in their glossy promotional magazine, which then “just happened” to get delivered to mailboxes throughout the ward, even though it has never been distributed that way before. How convenient.
Seems to me that the expense of that publication (or at least an equivalent multi-page glossy brochure) should be charged against her campaign spending limits.
I was also interested to see that her campaign team includes people from the Devon Group. They were one of the companies recently identified as receiving consulting contracts from public sector institutions (universities and hospitals) to lobby the provincial government. They were also brought up on charges last year as part of a bid-rigging conspiracy involving federal government contracts. Pretty strange bedfellows for a municipal candidate.
That Ward 18 article is certainly interesting, as it’s my ward and I’m still undecided. Thanks, Paul, for the information about the Devon Group, it will factor into my decision.
iSkyscraper – check the comments in NP articles. If they are even a hair doubtful about Frod, never mind critical, their commenters accuse them of being pro Smitherman.
Twitter advises that there are in fact two separate companies called the Devon Group and the one affiliated with Bailao was not connected to the bid-rigging case. I’m embarrassed to have spread misinformation.