{"id":2721,"date":"2008-02-01T22:15:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T03:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:48:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:48:10","slug":"poll-should-city-council-adopt-a-political-party-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/02\/01\/poll-should-city-council-adopt-a-political-party-system\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: should City Council adopt a political party system?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2192\/1577665845_b4be466be2.jpg\" height=\"379\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Early in January, Spacing&#8217;s Dale Duncan <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=2636\">wrote about the &#8220;Rising Right&#8221;<\/a> of Toronto city council. The post garnered a good number of comments and a <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=2636#comments\">variety of opinions<\/a>. We thought it would be a good idea to get a random sample of how Spacing readers feel about this subject.<\/p>\n<p>This question is: <strong>Do you think Toronto City Council should adopt a political party system?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.polldaddy.com\/poll.swf\" allowscriptaccess=\"never\" saveembedtags=\"true\" flashvars=\"p=272130\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" name=\"beta3\" salign=\"tl\" scale=\"autoscale\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" height=\"372\" width=\"252\"\/><em>photo by Miles Storey<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in January, Spacing&#8217;s Dale Duncan wrote about the &#8220;Rising Right&#8221; of Toronto city council. The post garnered a good number of comments and a variety of opinions. We thought it would be a good idea to get a random sample of how Spacing readers feel about this subject. 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