MAYOR-ELECT ROB FORD
lead stories…
• Ford confirms streetcar scrapping in doubt [The Star]
• Residents test Ford’s callback promise [The Star]
• No word on vehicle tax refunds [The Star]
• Rob Ford names transition team [Globe & Mail]
• Ford’s plans for streetcars still up in the air [National Post]
• Case Ootes to head up Ford transition team [National Post]
• Ford on ‘right track’: McCallion [National Post]
• Ford warns McGuinty: Voters upset [The Sun]
• Ford urged to turn green [The Sun]
• As It Happens Interview with Rob Ford (Audio) [CBC Radio]
• An attempted transcript of Rob Ford’s distracted As It Happens interview [Torontoist]
analysis…
• Rob Ford tapped into a zeitgeist that goes beyond Toronto [Globe & Mail]
• How George Smitherman’s dead-end run for Toronto mayor went wrong [Globe & Mail]
• Kuitenbrouwer: Optimism grows over Ford’s election [National Post]
• Chris Selley: As Rob Ford happens [National Post]
• How Ford-friendly will the new council be? Councillor-by-councillor analysis [Toronto Life]
• Pissed-off in Fordland [Now Weekly]
• Smitherman’s mea culpa [Now Weekly]
• Rebel, made to order [Now Weekly]
• A matter of respect: how Rob Ford swept into City Hall [Eye Weekly]
CITY COUNCIL
• Record numbers flocked to the polls [Globe & Mail]
• New era imminent at City Hall [National Post]
• Election crapshoot [Now Weekly]
• First thoughts on the election from Adam Vaughan and Kristyn Wong-Tam [Torontoist]
GTA ELECTIONS
• GTA mayors must coordinate efforts, says Vaughan’s new mayor [The Star]
• Bevilacqua turns Vaughan’s page [National Post]
• Parrish may be down, but she’s not out [National Post]
HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS
• New ‘town’ to replace Buttonville Airport [The Star]
• Buttonville Airport set to close within five years [National Post]
• Province rejects proposed Pickering growth [The Star]
• A collection of strange and intriguing Toronto homes [BlogTO]
KENSINGTON GARDEN CAR
• Kensington Market’s garden car to roll once more [The Star]
• Kensington Market’s garden car needs a new home, because La Palette is moving out [Torontoist]
OTHER NEWS
• Living in a glass house at Union Station [The Star]
• G20 security response worrying for democracy: Rights group [The Star]
• A morning in the life of a man in a glass box [National Post]
• Standing up to Officer Bubbles [Now Weekly]
7 comments
ahhh, i don’t have time to read all of this.
only time for news at 140 characters per story.
That CBC interview with Mr. Ford is ridiculous. We might as well as have a doll for mayor and when you poke it’s tummy it says “End the Gravy Train”, “Respect for Taxpayers”. Do you have anything else to say Mr. Ford?
Time for Tea? A Rough Right-winger Takes Charge of the Country’s Largest City [The Economist]
http://www.economist.com/node/17363399?story_id=17363399
Thanks, Rob. Already making us look good on the world stage.
I’m very suspicious of the apparently bungled CBC interview. Apologists are claiming that the interview was unplanned and caught him by surprise, which was not the case. This is what we can expect from now on: any time Ford looks bad, it is because the media is doing everything they can to make him look bad, and it will never be his own fault. Facts are irrelevant, Ford can do no wrong, if you ask simple questions of him you have a not-so-secret agenda to enslave the masses and spend all their money on arts galas.
Crimson: you might find the comment thread, and this comment in particular, interesting:
http://torontoist.com/2010/10/an_attempted_transcript_of_rob_fords_distracted_as_it_happens_interview.php#comment-2726487
Aww, Mark, thanks for thinking of me 🙂
Lol – originally proposed interview time of 4:20 …
great piece by Lorinc in Globe on Smitherman campaign