{"id":65859,"date":"2022-09-01T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=65859"},"modified":"2022-09-12T11:00:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:00:08","slug":"podcast-spacing-radio-067-toronto-election-the-case-against-a-strong-mayor-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2022\/09\/01\/podcast-spacing-radio-067-toronto-election-the-case-against-a-strong-mayor-system\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Spacing Radio 067, Toronto Election: the case against a strong mayor system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another election, another surprise announcement from Premier Doug Ford that throws it all into disarray. Ford&#8217;s proposal for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2022\/07\/28\/lorinc-does-toronto-need-strong-mayor-powers-or-just-a-strong-mayor\/\">Strong Mayor<\/a>&#8221; powers for Toronto and Ottawa&#8217;s next mayors have left many wondering why the Premier is intervening in local-level governance.<\/p>\n<p>One of these people is former Toronto Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamdavidmiller?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">David Miller<\/a>. We speak to Miller \u2014 currently managing director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c40.org\/our-team\/david-miller\/\">C40 Cities<\/a>, advising municipalities on fighting climate change \u2014 about why a Strong Mayor system would be harmful to local democracy, as long as key issues for this elections such as housing, transit, active transportation, and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the podcast on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ca\/podcast\/spacing-radio\/id1124077274\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7j3L15Vo36v6MJGXask9HG\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/listen#\/ps\/Ix2fkh233gvpmmbgtby7exujgt4\">Google Play<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\">SoundCloud<\/a>, or follow our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/users\/soundcloud:users:233628346\/sounds.rss\">RSS feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1335224749&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=true&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Spacing Radio\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spacing Radio<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Episode 67: Toronto Election: the case against a strong mayor system\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/spacingradio\/episode-67-toronto-election-the-case-against-a-strong-mayor-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Episode 67: Toronto Election: the case against a strong mayor system<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another election, another surprise announcement from Premier Doug Ford that throws it all into disarray. Ford&#8217;s proposal for &#8220;Strong Mayor&#8221; powers for Toronto and Ottawa&#8217;s next mayors have left many wondering why the Premier is intervening in local-level governance. One of these people is former Toronto Mayor David Miller. We speak to Miller \u2014 currently<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2022\/09\/01\/podcast-spacing-radio-067-toronto-election-the-case-against-a-strong-mayor-system\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;PODCAST: Spacing Radio 067, Toronto Election: the case against a strong mayor system&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8312,"featured_media":65860,"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":[157,22482,33,22198,2,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-elections","category-housing","category-podcast","category-politics","category-transit","category-walking"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PODCAST: Spacing Radio 067, Toronto Election: the case against a strong mayor system - 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\/2022\/09\/01\/podcast-spacing-radio-067-toronto-election-the-case-against-a-strong-mayor-system\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PODCAST: Spacing Radio 067, Toronto Election: the case against a strong mayor system - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Another election, another surprise announcement from Premier Doug Ford that throws it all into disarray. 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