{"id":1133,"date":"2006-09-13T13:19:05","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T17:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:35:08","slug":"james-new-blood-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/09\/13\/james-new-blood-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMES: New blood needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/images\/thestar\/img\/060913_john_sewell_300.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Photo of John Sewell by RENE JOHNSTON\/TORONTO STAR<\/font><\/em><em> <\/em><br \/>\nThis is the period during an election where the finer points of platforms are not usually debated in the media. Instead, over-arching persepctive pieces seem to dominate, setting the tone for the next 60 days. Today, the <em>Star<\/em>&#8216;s Royson James dicsusses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/NASApp\/cs\/ContentServer?pagename=thestar\/Layout\/Article_Type1&#038;c=Article&#038;cid=1158097812289&#038;call_pageid=968350130169&#038;col=969483202845\">the need for new blood<\/a> on City Council.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sometimes, ordinary folk just can&#8217;t seem to get a break. Especially at city hall.<\/p>\n<p>And these days, old and recycled blood may have to do for those seeking new blood at the seat of local democracy.Welcome back John Sewell and John Adams, former councillors on the comeback trail, this time in Ward 21 St. Paul&#8217;s; and Ron Moeser, who thinks Ward 44 Scarborough East misses him after a three-year dalliance with Gay Cowbourne. To be sure, Sewell made his mark as mayor, in his day. But that was decades ago, and times have changed. Then, there is the connected &#8212; ex-Citytv man Adam Vaughan challenging in Trinity-Spadina and the last-minute parachute candidate Gord Perks, riding in on his environmental horse into Ward 14 Parkdale-High Park. Old new blood. Uncommon new blood. Not what many anticipated in the lead-up to the municipal election campaign.I&#8217;d like to hear what Spacing Wire readers have to say about the need for new blood at City Hall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is new blood needed? Or do residents need to be more engaged, thus putting more pressure on the current crop of councillors? Or do we need to kick out the bums and start fresh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo of John Sewell by RENE JOHNSTON\/TORONTO STAR This is the period during an election where the finer points of platforms are not usually debated in the media. Instead, over-arching persepctive pieces seem to dominate, setting the tone for the next 60 days. Today, the Star&#8216;s Royson James dicsusses the need for new blood on<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/09\/13\/james-new-blood-needed\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;JAMES: New blood needed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1050,2396,756,31,3260,3256,3257,403,426,22085,3258,3259,405,341],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-adam-vaughan","tag-candidate","tag-city-council","tag-election","tag-gay-cowbourne","tag-gord-perks","tag-john-adams","tag-john-sewell","tag-mayor","tag-politics","tag-rene-johnston","tag-ron-moeser","tag-the-star","tag-toronto-star"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>JAMES: New blood needed - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/09\/13\/james-new-blood-needed\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JAMES: New blood needed - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Photo of John Sewell by RENE JOHNSTON\/TORONTO STAR This is the period during an election where the finer points of platforms are not usually debated in the media. 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