Politics
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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...
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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...
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JOHN LORINC: Rossi cold to Transit City, bike lanes
In a lunchtime speech to the Empire Club at the Royal York today, mayoral hopeful Rocco Rossi laid out some of the key planks of his platform —...
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JOHN LORINC: Five white guys in suits
The all-male city council of Toronto, 1952 Except for Mel Lastman’s essentially uncontested re-election in 2000 (with all due respect to Tooker...
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JOHN LORINC: And then there were three (four, five…?)
Will history kill George Smitherman’s mayoral ambitions? Setting aside the issue of his temperament, Smitherman — who officially registered last...
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Political spectrum of Toronto mayor’s race
Adam Giambrone, Joe Pantalone (both unregistered but have declared intentions) Shelley Carroll (undeclared but highly rumoured) George Smitherman...
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Ex–lobbyist wants to be your source for election news
Just launched Monday, Toronto election news clearinghouse Toronto Election News is a splashy aggregator that aims to be the most comprehensive source of...
By Jonathan Goldsbie