Politics
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising (by taking municipal governments for suckers)
Photo by torontocitylife. Transit shelters require concrete pads (bases) underneath them. Astral pays for those. The garbage bins they’ve designed...
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Spacing Radio 009: City election 2010
Go listen to this week’s episode! The 2010 city election — only one year away — will have a tremendous impact on the future of Toronto...
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JOHN LORINC: A Murray mayoralty?
When Glen Murray asked me to be his Facebook friend last spring, I reckoned his overtures weren’t merely about putting down roots in Toronto’s...
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Understanding a city council meeting 101
Yes, City Council proceedings are often funny, ridiculous, and entertaining, and sometimes even embarrassing. Let’s get that out of the way. What...
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JOHN LORINC: Waiting for the other shoe
Power, as any poli-sci major will confirm, hates a vacuum, and the question at City Hall from now on is whether David Miller’s long (and hopefully...
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JOHN LORINC: The New Deal for Cities, RIP
If you tally up the list of prominent politicians at all levels who staked their careers on advancing the so-called cities agenda, only one’s still...
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New ways of thinking about cities and policy making
“Every time you do something in the city, don’t just do it, do it beautifully.” A seemingly simple statement made by Joe Berridge at...
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STEVE MUNRO: The mayor of Transit City
Steve Munro writes the public transit column for Spacing and is a contributing editor to the magazine. This column is cross-posted from Steve...
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Schoolyard bully kicked Miller out of shame
In a media scrum yesterday after David Miller announced he would not seek a third term as Toronto’s mayor, Adam Vaughan talked about the “kick...
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Mayor announces that he wont seek third term
Flanked by family, friends, his staff and media, an emotional, passionate and feisty Mayor David Miller announced that he will not seek a third term...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
A political subway map
Norway recently had a federal election. The newspaper Dagbladet produced an interesting infographic to show how people voted: it took the Oslo subway map...
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JOHN LORINC: knocking heads
The Toronto Cyclists Union did itself no favours yesterday when they tried to persuade the members of council’s public works and infrastructure...
By John Lorinc