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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Toronto doctors call for legal drugs
Originally published in the Toronto Sun July 18, 2018 Toronto’s Board of Health voted Monday to ask the federal government to decriminalize possession of all drugs […]
Streetcar woes not just Bombardier’s fault
Originally published in the Toronto Sun July 5, 2018 Most of Toronto’s shiny new streetcars have been recalled by Bombardier for critically-important repairs. Yes, those […]
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 […]
Yes Virginia, Ford did save taxpayers $1B
Did he, or didn’t he? The late Rob Ford, former Mayor of Toronto and his brother Doug, then a Toronto City Councillor, used to boast […]
Ontario’s Police Act is offensive
Whoever forms the Ontario government after June’s election, one of their priorities should be immediate and wholesale reform of the laws that govern policing in […]
Toronto hikes taxes three per cent
So, after an entire day of verbose, voluminous and expensive debate, Toronto City Council just passed the Mayor’s 2018 residential property tax hike of 2.91% […]