Politicians split on funding for priority neighbourhoods
Scarborough councillors are conflicted when it comes to outgoing mayor David Miller’s $40-million plan to invest in Toronto’s 13 neediest communities.
Scarborough councillors are conflicted when it comes to outgoing mayor David Miller’s $40-million plan to invest in Toronto’s 13 neediest communities.
Ward 42 residents crammed into Burrows Hall Community Centre Sept. 15 to challenge Ward 42 candidates about child and youth services in the area.
Some of Toronto’s mayoral frontrunners are finding common ground when it comes to one issue: downsizing city council.
Tina Marano’s life will change on Oct.25. Completely blind and hearing impaired since birth, she has never voted in an election without a friend to assist her. But this Election Day, she will feel the thrill of voting on her own for the first time.
Angela Kennedy insists her decision to appeal a conflict-of-interest charge won’t get in the way of her campaign to run for re-election as Toronto Catholic school board trustee. Kennedy is one of eight incumbents of…
Sarah Thomson leans firmly across the oval table.
“You being the common man, is a joke,” she says driving home her attack on Rob Ford.
Ford hardly seems to notice her efforts. With a laugh and a smile he turns to his neighbour at the debate as if Thomson does not exist let alone that she is unloading a barrage of verbal attacks.
Bin Lin has to wait for eight years to cast her first vote in aToronto municipal election. The 25-year-old landed in Canada as a permanent resident in 2006. Last July, she filed her application for…
Nancy Jenter’s city is no longer Toronto the Good. As a welfare recipient and food bank patron, Jenter says she knows first-hand how Toronto treats its underprivileged citizens. “Poor people are being left to rot…
A public transit commuter from Scarborough challenged Toronto’s mayoral candidates to come up with a better way during a public debate at the University of Toronto Tuesday night. Sarah Thomson, Rocco Rossi, George Smitherman, Joe…
Two mayoral debates are planned for tonight in Toronto, leaving candidates and organizers to do some last-minute juggling.