Politics
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Rules that Rob Ford appears to have broken since 8:00 Thursday morning
This page contained his City Hall contact information. Then it was blank. Now it has an email address. Rob Ford has been a candidate for mayor for just...
By Jonathan Goldsbie -
Spacing release party Wed. March 31st!
WHAT: Spacing’s spring 2010 issue release party WHEN: Wednesday, March 31, 8pm-12am WHERE: El Mocambo 464 Spadina Ave., just south of College Ave...
By Matthew Blackett -
LORINC: Doing the Surplus Two-Step
For those who are keeping score, 2010 isn’t the first time the city’s bean-counters delivered an unexpectedly large budget surplus, nor is it...
By John Lorinc -
Toronto election: how to avoid getting a wedgie in this Brady Bunch city
The following is a reprint of my recent Psychogeography column in Eye Weekly. Photo by Lone Primate. In an election year very strange and illogical things...
By Shawn Micallef -
CITY COUNCILLORS USE EXPENSE BUDGETS ON (gasp!) EXPENSES
It probably says something that Rob Ford is being more restrained and thoughtful than even the Toronto Star these days. Pressed by the Post for comment...
By Jonathan Goldsbie -
JOHN LORINC: The other election campaign
On the morning of the now-infamous $100 million press conference, a Metro Morning producer called me at 6:30 am and asked if I wanted to speculate on air...
By John Lorinc -
He’s done this before, you know
A photo I took when we went through this ritual in mid-2008. Context! June 13, 2008. A Friday. I was covering City Hall for Eye Weekly at the time. At...
By Jonathan Goldsbie -
Ontario auto insurance changes hit pedestrians, cyclists
Anyone who doesn’t own a car, and the insurance that goes with it, is going to have fewer resources to deal with injuries if they are hit by a car...
By Dylan Reid -
Lorinc vs. Munro: TTC 2.0 or TTC RIP?
At a packed Board of Trade speech last week, Rocco Rossi vowed that as mayor, he would “put everything on the table” in negotiations with the...
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Could Toronto lease out the Gardiner and DVP?
There was an interesting article in the Star recently (with a misleading headline) about how Chicago’s chief financial officer arranged leases on...
By Dylan Reid -
SPACING RADIO: City budgets, ferry rides and Olympic legacies
Spacing Radio 017 is on the air. It’s budget-time in Toronto and while City Hall is busy at work approving the final numbers, host David Michael...
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LORINC: Parsing Caplan’s TTC essential service bill
From what I can glean, there are three competing explanations for what former Liberal health minister David Caplan was up to last week when he introduced...
By John Lorinc