Politics
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Headspace: Susan McIsaac, CEO of the United Way, discusses priority neighbourhoods
Susan McIsaac is CEO of the United Way of Toronto. Since 1956, The United Way has been working to provide services to the poor and needy in our city...
By Luca De Franco -
Meet Jennifer Keesmaat, Toronto’s new chief planner
In the lead-up to the previous municipal election, Spacing identified the most pressing urban issues facing the city. In our urban planning feature we...
By Matthew Blackett -
LORINC: Is there a chance for OneCity 2.0?
Are we in the midst of a golden age of transit construction in Toronto? I pose the question in complete seriousness to all the grim-faced fans of...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: Shelley Carroll’s case for patience on transit plan
Is Shelley Carroll merely pouting about not getting her fair share of the OneCity limelight, or does she have a legitimate critique of the much-lauded...
By John Lorinc -
A sign of things to come if the Jarvis Bike lane is removed
Jarvis Street is undergoing some construction right now and this innocent sign doesn’t have any idea of the civic strife it’s inadvertently...
By Shawn Micallef -
LORINC: The case for Nenshi as federal Liberal leader
Will Bob Rae’s unexpected but sensible decision to withdraw from the Liberal leadership race pave the way for the second coming of Trudeau? I certainly...
By John Lorinc -
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...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
LORINC: What We Talk About When We Talk About Guns
In the wake of the Eaton Centre shooting, The Sun’s Joe Warmington declared predictably that Toronto is “a dangerous city.” The rebuttals – statistical...
By John Lorinc -
Former mayor Art Eggelton wants you to care
In late May, approximately 150 people crowded into The Duke of York Pub to listen to a mayor speak. And no, it was not Rob Ford. Senator Art Eggleton, who...
By Daniel Viola -
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...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
LORINC: Terrible Taxes and Other Ferry Tales
When Rob Ford revealed that he intends to move a motion to rename the Toronto island ferry docks in honour of Jack Layton, I’m guessing he wasn’t thinking...
By John Lorinc -
LORINC: The Infrastructure That Dare Not Speak its Name
Could there be a more telling detail about the Ford administration’s pathologically perverse position on transit than the revelation, in Friday’s Globe...
By John Lorinc