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Hopefully, every reader of the Spacing Wire<\/strong> knows we also have a sister blog called Spacing Votes<\/strong><\/a> that has numerous daily posts about Toronto’s upcoming municipal election. Our team of reporters have fanned out across the city to try and bring you articles on issues that are important to the future of our city. For those of you not interested in the election, there are only 16 days until election day (on Nov. 13).<\/p>\n

Here’s a quick hit-list of what we’ve been doing on Spacing Votes over the last 10 days.<\/p>\n

JOHN LORINC COLUMNS<\/strong>
\n• Sewell’s ROW flip-flop<\/a>
\n• Notes from the Leaside mayors’ debate<\/a>
\n• Re-thinking casinos<\/a>
\n• The Sun, the Moon, and crumbs<\/a>
\n• Parsing John Sewell<\/a><\/p>\n

MAYORS’ RACE<\/strong>
\n• Hands tied on heritage issues, candidates say<\/a>
\n• Miller announces flawed transit plan<\/a>
\n• Hart House interloper makes things interesting<\/a>
\n• Landed immigrants should be able to vote, Miller says<\/a>
\n• Verdicts on CityTV-Toronto Star mayors’ debate<\/a>
\n• Live blogging by Spacing during TV debate<\/a>
\n• The Sun, the Moon, and crumbs<\/a>
\n• Pitfield’s big transit plans<\/a>
\n• Pitfield’s blog SNAFU<\/a><\/p>\n

HOUSING<\/strong>
\n• The Wellesley Institute releases the Blueprint<\/a>
\n• Watch the video outlining the Blueprint<\/a>
\n• Finally, a plan for affordable housing<\/a><\/p>\n

TRANSIT & the TTC<\/strong>
\n• Steve Munro reviews TTC plans of mayor candidates<\/a>
\n• Sewell’s ROW flip-flop<\/a>
\n• Miller announces flawed transit plan<\/a>
\n• City Council TTC report cards: wards 29-36<\/a>
\n• Pitfield’s big transit plans<\/a>
\n• Sewell’s ROW flip-flop<\/a>
\n• City Council TTC report cards: wards 23-28<\/a><\/p>\n

DEVELOPMENT<\/strong>
\n• Don Mills Centre redevelopment stirs locals<\/a>
\n• Ward 16 candidates sound off on development issues<\/a>
\n• Development drama in Ward 18, Davenport<\/a>
\n• Big box fears hit Queen West, Trinity-Spadina race<\/a><\/p>\n

CYCLING & PEDESTRIANS<\/strong>
\n• TCAT releases candidates’ survey results<\/a>
\n• City Council cycling report cards<\/a>
\n• Take the Tooker asks you to email candidates<\/a><\/p>\n

ELECTION TIDBITS<\/strong>
\n• See Dick Run (for school trustee)<\/a>
\n• Lawn signs go up!<\/a>
\n• People For Education launches trustee website<\/a>
\n• Show me the money: 2003 election donations<\/a>
\n• Campaign finance, Part I<\/a>
\n• Toronto election on Flickr and You Tube<\/a>
\n• Toronto Public Space Committee launches election site<\/a>
\n• How to kill an airport in 24 hours<\/a>
\n• Trintity-Spadina candidates discuss ad creep<\/a>
\n• Pitfield’s blog SNAFU<\/a>
\n• Candidates Pledge TO Green<\/a>
\n• Welcome to urban heat island<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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