Council makes Toronto safe forever. Not.
Although smaller, Toronto’s brand-new and improved City Council remains fully committed to making government bigger, more expensive and less effective. If they can ruin an […]
Politics & Current Affairs
Enforcement, not paperwork, beats crime
This morning, Ontario Provincial Police announced a coordinated, multi-jurisdictional operation had resulted in the arrests of 23 people and the seizure of 20 illegal firearms. […]
A missing committee at Toronto City Hall
Toronto’s newly reduced City Council has adopted a temporary governance structure with an eight-member executive committee and four standing policy committees to consider policy options […]
Toronto Council needs an OS upgrade
Toronto City Council has been whittled down to a more manageable size, but as its first meeting proved, it’s not just the number of councillors […]
Greedy Toronto councillors cash in big
Have you ever seen one of those carnival contests where they lock the winner in a glass booth and fire up a cyclone inside while […]
Some things are worth fighting for
It’s Remembrance Day tomorrow. At 11 am tomorrow, the 11th day of the 11th Month of 2018, it will be exactly 100 years since the […]
Eugene, Spandex & a culture of democracy
Much of what I value most about democracy, I learned two decades ago in the dark heart of a country that had never experienced it […]
Tory has support to get things done
Yesterday’s municipal election has formed a new, slimmed-down #Toronto City Council that should make it easier for Mayor John Tory (re-elected in a landslide) to […]
Use Fentanyl for all state executions
Convicted murderer Carey Dean Moore was executed in a Nebraska prison just before 11 am on Tuesday, August 14. He was the first condemned prisoner […]
Smaller Toronto council just a start
The Ontario government passed Bill 5 today – which reduces the size of Toronto City Council to one mayor and 25 councillors representing wards that […]
Kill the Clock!
There is one simple thing Toronto can do to improve pedestrian safety and reduce traffic congestion. Kill the Clock! The pedestrian countdown clock is the […]
Gun control won’t solve violence problem
In the wake of Sunday night’s mass shooting on Toronto’s popular Danforth St., politicians from the mayor to the local councillor are turning predictably to […]
10 steps to fight violent crime in Toronto
Toronto has been witness to 22 fatal shootings so far this year – just less than half of the city’s 51 murders in 2018 thus […]
First, we have to define the “opioid crisis”
There are two distinct camps when it comes to how people feel about safe injection sites for opioid addicts. One camp believes safe injection sites […]
John Tory’s path to victory just got harder
Thursday’s provincial election creates a new political challenge for Toronto Mayor John Tory. His path to re-election just got a lot more difficult. Prior to […]