Politics
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Karen Stintz, Billboards, and how to get around the Lobbyist Registry
On January 9, 2009, City Councillor Karen Stintz had a business lunch with Les Abro, president and CEO of billboard company Abcon Media. They went to The...
By Jonathan Goldsbie -
How would a National Housing Strategy impact our cities?
cross-posted from Spacing Atlantic HALIFAX — National Housing Day was first marked on the calendar by a team of Toronto housing advocates on Nov 22...
By Emma Feltes -
Arts Vote 2010: Make your creative voice heard!
Arts Vote recently launched their 2010 campaign to identify and support Arts and Culture friendly Mayoral candidates in the next Municipal election. The...
By Nicole Bruun-Meyer -
Cooking a 2010 election agenda
Almost one month ago, Councillor Gord Perks commented on a Spacing Toronto article that speculated about which progressive candidates might run for mayor...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
LORINC: Tuning in Tory
Is John Tory in a conflict of interest with his daily drive-time radio show on CFRB? This past week, the question became impossible to ignore when he...
By John Lorinc -
Breaking News: TTC to make student fares fairer, Metropass to increase less
A campaign called Fair Student Fares is about to get what it wants out of the TTC and Metropasses won’t be increasing in price by quite as much as...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
JOHN LORINC: A Little Circus, A Bit of Dough
The phrase for Toronto should be “fourth time, lucky.” Thanks to some form of cosmic serendipity, we are indeed lucky to have bagged the 2015...
By John Lorinc -
Lawyer: New insurance regs to ding non-drivers
Toronto lawyer Patrick Brown sent out a mass e-mail this evening warning of troubling developments for non-drivers (people without auto insurance) in new...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Billboard tax and signs by-law face final hurdles
After the St. Clair Right of Way was approved, Toronto Environmental Alliance activist Gord Perks told me that nothing worth doing at City Hall takes less...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Short-term pain for long-term…pain
This past weekend, newspaper headlines were warning Toronto that 2010 would be the year that the city budget is cut to pieces. As the Globe reported, city...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Vote on your favourite U of T building
U of T Magazine is conducting a poll on your favourite U of T building, so this is your chance to cast your vote. So far, in the Toronto Campus, Hart...
By Nicole Bruun-Meyer -
The new zoning bylaw: a confusion of bases
1545 Eglinton Ave West by Kevin Steele A few weeks ago I wrote about the project to create a new comprehensive zoning bylaw for Toronto. In an effort to...
By Dylan Reid