Elections
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What awaits the new mayor
By this time next week, the City of Toronto will have a new chief magistrate, and likely (thankfully!) the first mayor who will be situated somewhere to...
By John Lorinc -
PODCAST: Spacing Radio 071, Toronto’s next mayor and the job ahead
The June 26th mayoral by-election is coming up fast. We’ve seen plenty of debate, a crowded field of candidates, and increased voter engagement...
By Spacing Radio -
MAYOR’S RACE: Election night watch party
WHAT: Election Night Watch Party: Mayor’s Edition! WHEN: Monday, June 26, 2023 (6-10pm) WHERE: Pauper’s Pub (539 Bloor St W., one block east...
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MAYOR’S RACE: What’s missing from the housing debate
As in so many other fast-growing big cities, housing affordability has become Toronto’s ur-issue — the crisis that touches absolutely everything...
By John Lorinc -
MAYOR’S RACE: Toronto’s not very green election
With 102 candidates on a ballot that may look more like a scroll than anything else, you’d think someone would be talking about carbon, and what the...
By John Lorinc -
MAYOR’S RACE: A Saunders mayoralty and the coming crisis of police oversight
By this point in our unwieldy mayoral by-election, it should be crystal clear that the standard bearer for the inevitable law-and-order campaign is Mark...
By John Lorinc -
OP-ED: Making encampments obsolete should be a priority for Toronto’s next mayor
No one wants encampments. Not the people who live in them, who would almost certainly rather live in a stable, adequate home. Not the neighbours, who want...
By Alan Broadbent and Elizabeth McIsaac -
MAYOR’S RACE: The twisted politics of Toronto’s byelection
Are you, dear reader, keeping it all straight? Like a river that has overtopped its banks with a sudden spring melt, the mayoral by-election has rapidly...
By John Lorinc -
MAYOR’S RACE: We need to talk about Doug
I have no idea what Ontario Place will look like in 2118, but I feel confident in predicting that Therme Canada’s 65,000 sq.-m human aquarium...
By John Lorinc -
MAYOR’S RACE: Will it be a fear-mongering or city-building election?
The late Jack Layton used to have an adage about public life that profoundly informed his approach to politics: Proposition, he’d say, not...
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MAYOR’S RACE: Parsing the politics of Mark Saunders’ performative allyship
Toronto’s mayoral election is historic. So many candidates and so many political affiliations, identities, and experiences. Voting is going to be a...
By Cheryl Thompson -
MAYOR’S RACE: Candidates oppose Ford’s Ontario Place spa plans
In back-to-back water’s edge press conferences last week, Ana Bailao and Josh Matlow planted their respective flags on the West Island at Ontario...
By John Lorinc