{"id":1304,"date":"2006-11-02T02:59:25","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T06:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:34:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:34:40","slug":"eye-weeklys-primer-for-the-political-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/11\/02\/eye-weeklys-primer-for-the-political-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye Weekly&#8217;s primer for The Political Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/issue_files\/home\/feature_home_top.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/votes\/\"><em>Spacing Votes<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/votes\/?p=155\">we&#8217;ve mentioned<\/a>, <em>Spacing<\/em> is teaming up with <em>Eye Weekly<\/em> to bring you The Political Party (Monday, Nov. 6th), where Miller and Pitifeld will outline their vision for Toronto&#8217;s public spaces and face questions from our panel of <a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/votes\/?cat=25\">John Lorinc<\/a> (Spacing Votes), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/election2006\/\">Ed Keenan<\/a> (Eye Weekly), and <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/\">Dale Duncan<\/a> (Spacing editor &#038; Eye contributor).<\/p>\n<p>Keenan also wrote the cover story of this week&#8217;s issue, framing the choice voters&#8217; will have at the ballot box. [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/eye\/issue\/issue_11.02.06\/features\/feature_1.php\">read the full article<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three years ago, David Miller rode his broom into the mayor of Toronto&#8217;s office on a wave of optimism inspired by his clear-thinking, neighbourhood-minded campaign. Back then, the ballot-box question (as political strategists put it) was, &#8220;what kind of city do you want to live in?&#8221; Miller&#8217;s answer &#8211; cities are for people, not airplanes; city hall should invite citizens not lobbyists &#8211; carried the day.<\/p>\n<p>As we head back to the polls at the end of Miller&#8217;s first term in office, the relevant question comes in two parts: do you think Miller has adequately delivered on his promise of a cleaner (metaphorically and physically) city? And if not, do you think it is possible that Jane Pitfield, Miller&#8217;s only serious opponent, could do a better job?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted from Spacing Votes As we&#8217;ve mentioned, Spacing is teaming up with Eye Weekly to bring you The Political Party (Monday, Nov. 6th), where Miller and Pitifeld will outline their vision for Toronto&#8217;s public spaces and face questions from our panel of John Lorinc (Spacing Votes), Ed Keenan (Eye Weekly), and Dale Duncan (Spacing editor<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/11\/02\/eye-weeklys-primer-for-the-political-party\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Eye Weekly&#8217;s primer for The Political Party&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[3,2,14],"tags":[331,425,31,423,1079,1030,426,3554,311,19],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-politics","category-spacing","tag-dale-duncan","tag-david-miller","tag-election","tag-eye-weekly","tag-jane-pitfield","tag-john-lorinc","tag-mayor","tag-political-party","tag-spacing-editor","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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