Politics
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PODCAST: David Miller exit interview with Spacing, pt. III
LISTEN TO PART III OF SPACING’S EXIT INTERVIEW WITH DAVID MILLER In this special edition of Spacing Radio, we bring you the final installment — PART...
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PODCAST: David Miller exit interview with Spacing, pt. II
LISTEN TO PART II OF SPACING’S EXIT INTERVIEW WITH DAVID MILLER In this special dispatch, we’re bringing you PART TWO of our conversation with...
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Who’s that sitting on my standing committee?
A lot of attention has been paid to how Rob Ford has filled City Council’s executive committees (see Jonathan Goldsbie’s piece yesterday). But...
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Miller vs. Ford: Who Excluded Whom?
Comparing the geographic representation of Miller’s and Ford’s Executive Committees. Pretend there’s an asterisk in ward 4 (explained in...
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PODCAST: Mayor Miller, cabbie hangouts, and streetcars
LISTEN TO THIS WEEK’S PODCAST! This episode we take you behind-the-scenes. First, we go to Toronto City Hall where Mayor David Miller has packed his...
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LORINC: Who really stopped the gravy train
When council convenes this week to debate the new regime’s signature moves, I’m guessing Mayor Rob Ford won’t be rising to offer praise to former budget...
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Toronto’s future in C40
Cities matter. Spacing readers know that, but it should be argued more often in more places. The argument should be screamed from the rooftops at...
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POLL: Help choose design of Left Wing Pinko button
As many of you have already read, yesterday Don Cherry graced Toronto’s city council chambers and proceeded to bash those who do not share his...
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That time Rob Ford voted to create Transit City
Tuesday morning, at a Queen’s Park media scrum, Mayor Rob Ford declared, “As you know, there was never a vote on council for Transit City, and...
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LORINC: What about the TTC operating budget?
When I count the votes on the new council, it seems pretty clear that a Transit City vs. subway vote, due in February according to TTC chair Karen Stintz...
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A goodbye to David Miller’s Toronto
The following is a piece by Ivor Tossell that he posted to his site late last night. He’s a freelance writer. He lives in Parkdale. He once wrote a...
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Let’s Save Transit City Together – Saturday, 2PM
When: Saturday, December 4, 2-4PM Where: Northwest corner, Yonge & Eglinton What: Canvassing the Yonge & Eglinton community in Ward 16 to organize...
By Spacing