There is less than a week before we go to the polls and elect our next provincial government and decide the future of how we elect a government. Spacing has been covering the election on our other blog Spacing Votes for over a month now. We’ve been examining the platforms of each party and seeing how their policies affect Toronto’s urban landscape. Here are a bunch of links if you haven’t been following our daily posts.
TRANSIT
• Munro: hard truths about transit funding
• The NDP takes us for a ride
• PC transit critic has private eyes
• Cansfield leaving transit behind in Etobicoke
• Mississauga gives Greens a chance to debate
• Munro: still waiting for transit promises
• Operational funding takes a back seat
• Munro: PC transit policy: announce often, ignore details
JOHN LORINC COLUMNS
• C’mon Dalton, just say the H-word…
• Flipping Tory’s flop
• Not up for debate, pt. VI: NDP and affordable housing
• Not up for debate, pt. III: property taxes
• Not up for debate, pt. II: transit promises
• Not up for debate, pt. I: smart growth
• The mating game begins: a NDP-Liberal coalition?
• Greening the property tax
• Earth calling Howard Hampton, come in Howard…
ENVIRONMENT ISSUES
• One-on-One with Bruce Cox, Greenpeace executive director
• One-on-One with John Yakabuski, PC energy critic
• One-on-One with Frank de Jong, Green party leader
• One-on-One with Gord Perks, city councillor and eco-activist
• Canvassing the Danforth with the messengers of green
• Find your local polluters
• Green ideas that deserve discussion
MMP REFERENDUM
• Disproportionality, pt. II
• Disproportionality, pt. I
• It’s time to bake the referendum cake
• Greens announce their MMP list
• The end of McGuintoryism: Andrew Coyne
• MMP variations
• A look at referendum ballot question
• Politicians take sides on MMP
• Web resources for MMP
• MMP primer, pt. II
• MMP primer, pt. I
DEVELOPMENT & OMB ISSUES
• David Caplan is a believer
• How I learned to love the OMB
• Why we should be talking about property taxes
• The long shadow of the OMB
• The shape of the province
• OMB case studies
• Connecting food and urban sprawl
• Getting tough with smarth growth
• Taking positions on the OMB
photo by Grant MacDonald