Politics
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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 -
Rebel Mayor, social media & the Toronto municipal election
The following is a reprint of my Eye Weekly Psychogeography column looking back on the Rebel Mayor twitter character and some thoughts on how social was...
By Shawn Micallef -
A goodbye to Mayor David Miller: leading a complicated mixed up city like Toronto ain’t easy
The following is a repost of my Eye Weekly psychogeography column where I look back on the last seven years and say goodbye to Mayor David Miller. The...
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Toronto’s Rebelmayor was lurking in the Spacing henhouse
If you’re on twitter and you follow Toronto politics you’ve probably already heard the news: our Senior Editor Shawn Micallef was the person...
By Spacing -
PODCAST: Post-election, post-Katrina, and winter island living
CHECK OUT SPACING RADIO’S NEWEST PODCAST The votes have been counted and Toronto has a new mayor. But what now? We sit down with Alan Broadbent...
By Spacing -
The new council on walking and cycling
Before the municipal election, the Toronto Coalition for Active Transportation conducted a survey of candidate’s positions on walking and cycling...
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Karen Stintz – New TTC Chair?
Mayor Rob Ford: a new title Torontonians will have to get used to saying over the coming years. While many are focusing on the results of the mayor’s race...
By Travis Myers -
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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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...
By Dylan Reid -
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