Politics
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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...
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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...
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Toronto’s new unified zoning bylaw project
I went to an open house at City Hall last night about Toronto’s new zoning bylaw project. It doesn’t sound all that exciting, and the event...
By Dylan Reid