Politics
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MESLIN: The myth of the five-week election
As the dust settles from the 2014 municipal election and political commentators begin to reflect on what happened, two common themes are emerging. First...
By Dave Meslin -
REID: How many people vote randomly for school board trustee?
I’ve noticed that, in school board elections, even the bottom candidates tend to get a fairly large number of votes compared to the bottom...
By Dylan Reid -
LORINC: Can Tory get SmartTrack off the launch pad?
Toronto’s last two mayors, though polar opposites, both began their terms of office almost identically — with short, crisp council meetings designed to...
By John Lorinc -
Toronto’s mayoral election in five more maps
Yesterday, University of Toronto Professor David Hulchanski summarized the link between Monday’s election results and the increasing socioeconomic...
By Sean Marshall -
Toronto’s mayoral election in four maps
Over the past three decades, Toronto has become an increasingly divided city, economically and racially. And those divisions were starkly apparent in...
By David Hulchanski -
LORINC: Mr. Tory Goes to City Hall
My operating hypothesis about the way mayor-elect John Tory plans to run council is that he’s going to try to emulate Mel Lastman’s political approach to...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: What we didn’t talk about during this election
Remarkably, given the duration of the campaign and the sheer number of debates, the mayoral candidates managed to either completely ignore or give the...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Lessons for Toronto from Nenshi Nation
After the interminable awfulness of Toronto’s election campaign, and just hours following the horror show in Ottawa, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: In defense of the strategists
Pop math quiz: what’s a strategic vote worth, anyway? Seventy-five percent of an “authentic” vote, or maybe just 50%? How shall we calculate a...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Tory has out-smarted Chow
As the major ed-board endorsements start to flow in John Tory’s direction, it seems increasingly clear that his campaign, which focused so tightly on his...
By John Lorinc -
Paul Bedford Q&A: change Toronto’s governance model
Since Toronto’s amalgamation, there’s been very little re-tooling of the governance model foisted upon the region during Harris years. Paul...
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LORINC: Class divisions at heart of this campaign
During the scrum following Friday night’s shouty debate about priority neighbourhoods, a Global News reporter asked John Tory if he believed that white...
By John Lorinc