REMEMBERING DAVID PECAUT
• In death, David Pecaut sets out a challenge for all Torontonians [ Globe & Mail ]
• James: David Pecaut brought impossible to life [ Toronto Star ]
• Knelman: David Pecaut, 54: ‘Greatest mayor Toronto never had’ [ Toronto Star ]
• Our city owes you a debt, David [ National Post ]
MAYORAL RACE
• Rossi says as mayor he would sell Toronto Hydro [ Toronto Star ]
• ‘Big, bald’ Rocco Rossi tosses his hat in ring [ Toronto Star ]
OTHER NEWS
• Toronto the good – but not good enough [ Globe & Mail ]
• A messy affair [ Toronto Sun ]
• Homeless youth abandon Yonge [ Toronto Star ]
• Cavity on Queensway a royal pain [ Toronto Star ]
• Porter: Writers offer glimpses of the hidden city [ Toronto Star ]
• For 31 years, voices ring out to aid needy [ Toronto Star ]
One comment
re: Toronto the good – but not good enough
It’s no coincidence that the cities where ambitious Torontonians go are all imperial metropoles. Toronto is still deeply infected by the imperial disease.
London, Paris, New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Berlin…all are cities that are or were engines of world conquest.
Are there any non-imperial cities to which the ambitious Torontonian is drawn? I can’t think of one.
I’m not talking about those who simply want to see the world and experience other places. I know there are Torontonians scattered all over the world.
I’m talking about those like the woman in the article, who complain that they need to be “at the centre, at the crossroads of thinkers, influencers, decision makers”, with access to imperial organs like the World Bank. People like that don’t move to Vancouver, because people like that want to rule the world.
I hope we’re living through the slow demise of Empire as an organizing concept, with its notions of “centre” and “periphery” and the feelings of inadequecy and shame they cause in those of us cursed to be born at the latter instead of the former.
(P.s. This is why I forver rail against descriptions of Scarborough as “distant” or “far away”).