Politics
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JOHN LORINC: Jarvis bike lanes an election wedge issue?
Yet another press release from the Rocco Rossi camp appeared in my inbox late Friday afternoon, declaring – or more accurately, re-declaring –...
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Toronto Environmental Alliance issues election priorities
The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) has published a list of key policy priorities it hopes Toronto’s mayoral candidates will endorse. Noting...
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JOHN LORINC: The token stops here
If Mayor David Miller was a premier or prime minister contending with a cabinet minister in political freefall, he’d have only one option: fire the...
By John Lorinc -
STEVE MUNRO: Giambrone should step down from TTC
At 11am today, Adam Giambrone held a press conference at which he profusely apologised to his supporters, to his personal partner, and to his fellow...
By Steve Munro -
Adam Giambrone drops out of mayor’s race
Adam Giambrone is abandoning his campaign for mayor. His assistant, Kevin Beaulieu, informed the media of this decision after Giambrone suprised the...
By Todd Harrison -
JOHN LORINC: Conservative yearnings
It couldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that the city’s swinging right in this election year, and not without reason, given the increasingly...
By John Lorinc -
JOHN LORINC: Councillors’ ideas on how to fix TTC
Say this for Adam Giambrone’s long-shot run for mayor (which he launches tonight at Revival): As TTC chair, his very presence in the race all but...
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City seeking members for new Sign Variance Committee
As we have seen, allowing politicians to adjudicate on new billboard applications can be, well, problematic. That’s why City Council is setting up...
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Giambrone video confirms mayoral bid
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvzkjxSf9gg[/youtube] Earlier this week, the local media jumped on the news that councillor Adam Giambrone is set...
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Giambrone: ‘We owe our riders an apology’
Adam Giambrone took some time this afternoon to address the fast escalating criticism of customer service on the TTC. His message was one of commitment to...
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Shell shock and paralysis
Last week, as pedestrian deaths in the GTA mounted, several media outlets asked me how I felt about this seeming epidemic. I generally replied that I was...
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JOHN LORINC: You snooze, you lose
For the TTC, it’s been a perfect storm. In under a month, we’ve seen the fare hike, Richard Soberman’s post mortem, Rocco Rossi’s call for a Transit City...
By John Lorinc