Politics

“The Walkable City”: a new report from Toronto Public Health

Yesterday, Toronto’s Medical Officer of Health released a new report by Toronto Public Health, The Walkable City: Neighbourhood Design and...

LORINC: So you say you want a referendum?

Rob Ford’s truculent behaviour in the wake of last week’s council decision raises a question that is surely setting Dalton McGuinty’s teeth on edge: How...

Watch ranked ballots in action this weekend

This is a guest post by Desmond Cole This weekend the federal New Democratic Party will convene at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre to elect a new...

LORINC: Mayor Ford fumbles for third time on transit

The Great Subway Battle of 2012™ was Mayor Rob Ford’s to lose, and he lost it with such single-mindedness and determination that this episode may well go...

Follow our updates from LRT debate at City Hall

For the last two days, Spacing has been tweeting live from City Hall about the ongoing Sheppard LRT debate. We’re using ScribbleLive on our Spacing...

Live coverage of Sheppard LRT vote from City Hall

LORINC: Is Ford ‘conflict of interest’ a crime or misdemeanor?

It’s time for everyone on the left to exhale. No judge is going to strip Mayor Rob Ford of his seat over his mystifying decision to speak during the Feb...

LORINC: Et tu, Doug Ford?

Toronto progressives owe Doug Ford a huge debt of gratitude because he and that perpetual motion machine beneath his nose did as much to save Transit City...

LORINC: Council opposition needs to keep eye on prize

When 24 councillors, representing the entire political spectrum, voted on February 8 to support Karen Stintz’s motion to block Mayor Rob Ford’s bid to set...

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...

Shawn Micallef as Rob Ford makes his case for a parachute at the Stephen Leacock debate

EDITOR: Last week at the annual Stephen Leacock debate in Toronto saw Rob Ford, Celine Dion, Stephen Harper and Don Cherry on a crashing plane with only...

Has Mayor Ford opened the door to sustained transit funding?

Mayor Ford’s obsession with the Sheppard subway may have inadvertently broken open the political conundrum of sustained long-term funding for...