By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler
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Op-Ed: Laying down the law on police budget? Maybe next year
Two key figures in the Ford administration have signaled their willingness to take on a Herculean task that, politically, only a right-wing administration...
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Without an active mayor, city council needs to show discipline
For close to a year, city council has been the substitute for our crisis-a-day mayor. In its collective role as mayor, council has become acutely aware of...
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Rob Ford speech absent of specifics and new ideas
When a provincial or federal government runs out of things it can or wants to do, it will often prorogue parliament before the end of a scheduled session...
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Remove the bubble wrap from our public spaces
It’s been said to me that City Hall is run by engineers and lawyers. The engineers determine whether a given idea is technically feasible. The lawyers, on...
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Don’t mess with library workers
When it comes to picking a fight, taking on Toronto Public Library’s workers is about as dumb as it gets. Councillor Paul Ainslie, chair of the city’s...
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Digging into the latest transit poll
The Toronto Star released an Angus Reid poll last weekend indicating that while Torontonians are split on whether we want subways or LRT, we have little...
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Council’s growing rainbow majority is creating unity
On Wednesday morning, Metro Morning’s Matt Galloway made the claim that Toronto’s city council is more divided than ever. While rhetorically...
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Why I Sought an Audit of Rob Ford
The editors of Spacing asked our long-time contributor Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler to write a personal column on the motives and reasons why he and Toronto...
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Del Grande Shut Down Meeting Illegally
Councillor Mike Del Grande broke the law when he arbitrarily shut down a budget consultation meeting that was attended by more than 100 people at the East...
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The Short Strokes of a Mayoralty
Years from now, David Miller will be remembered for his broadest brush strokes. Transit funding, waterfront revitalization and the land transfer tax among...
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Decorated librarian pays tribute to his female colleagues
I rarely blur the line between my role on the Toronto Public Library Board and my writing for Spacing but today is an exception. On February 25, I...
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Billboard Tax: Saved by Girls Hockey
This is the second retrospective look at how the new billboard tax and sign by-law were recently won by the Beautiful City Alliance. For some context on...