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Why I Voted For Rob Ford — a transit-riding, Toronto-loving, non-driver explains his vote
EDITOR: In an effort to further understand the landslide Rob Ford victory last week, we’ve offered this guest op-ed column to downtown-loving...
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Tuesday’s Headlines
ELECTION AFTERMATH • James: Citizens want city hall attitude adjustment [The Star] • Chris Selley: This is the last time I will bring up Rob Ford’s...
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Monday’s Headlines
ELECTION AFTERMATH • Ford faces stiff fight on council [The Star] • ‘I voted for somebody – I just don’t know who’ [The Star] â€...
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Spacing Saturday: Election Schadenfreude, Inspiring Logos and Smelly Photos
Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. They say that smell is the...
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ELECTION: Some election number-crunching
There’s been quite a bit of number-crunching of the results of Toronto’s municipal election in both the paper media (see Headlines below) and...
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Recruitment at the Memorial
Recruitment at the Memorial Comparitive Then and Now WWI recruiting sign at the South African War Memorial – University Ave. 1914 Before and After...
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Friday’s Headlines
MAYOR-ELECT ROB FORD • Urban-suburban split divides city [The Star] • Voting for Smitherman, Ford divided Toronto’s downtown and suburbs [Globe...
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STREET SCENE: Coffee Corner
Street Scene will appear each week showcasing the illustrations of local artist Jerry Waese.
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Thursday’s Headlines
MAYOR-ELECT ROB FORD lead stories… • Ford confirms streetcar scrapping in doubt [The Star] • Residents test Ford’s callback promise [The Star...
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World Wide Wednesday: Bike sharing, libraries, posters and city agriculture
Each week we will be focusing on blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
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Wednesday’s Headlines
FORD’S MAYORSHIP lead stories… • Ford won’t ditch streetcars [The Star] • The powers of Rob Ford [The Star] • Balance of power in...
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LORINC: Ford’s waste collector cometh
Is the glass half empty or half full? The election story line that is rapidly crystallizing into received wisdom is that our new garbageman-in-chief Rob...
By John Lorinc
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered