Politics
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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LORINC: What wasn’t talked about in this election
There’s little question they talked….a lot. Over a hundred all-candidates debates, countless public events, press conferences, editorial board sessions...
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Spacing Votes Weekly: The future, the media & the mayor
Here we go, the last weekend before the election on Monday. And it’s all up in the air, so to speak. Two frontrunners and trailing Joe, alone in his...
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ELECTION: Powers of the mayor should sway voters
Back in the summer, when Rob Ford carried a large lead in the polls, a lot of friends and colleagues would talk to me about the looming election with...
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PODCAST: Buffalo, Detroit, and the T.O. campaign trail
CHECK OUT THE LATEST SPACING RADIO EPISODE! As election day nears in Toronto, we hunt down mayoral candidates Joe Pantalone and Rob Ford. And our reporter...
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ELECTION: Council Turnover – Ward 18
It’s not often that candidates for City Council are given the opportunity to run without an incumbent in the ward. This year there are nine wards with...
By Nicole McIsaac