He has been knocking on doors for years. He knows his pitch very well by now. As he approaches one of the doorsteps at Roxton Road, in Little Italy, he gently knocks on a door and patiently waits for someone to open the door. “Hi there, I’m sorry to bother you,” he said. “My name is Mike Layton, I’m running to be your city councillor. I’m just coming by to say hello and see if there are any issues on your mind.”
After last Friday political commotion in the Ford saga, it was back to business at the city´s mayoral race.
A new poll conducted by Forum Research shows John Tory with the lead at 40 per cent. The poll of 1,069 residents was done on Monday night by voice response phone calls. Rob Ford received 28 per…
A troop of inquisitive Girl Guides lines up for autographs in front of a local celebrity, an 18-year-old Guide running for mayor. “I was sick of waiting for grown-ups to fix things for me,” Morgan Baskin said. Candidate Baskin sat in the basement of the Cosburn United Church in front of the Guides, speaking about women in leadership.
City council opened discussions on April 2 about cutting some of the red tape surrounding the rules for food trucks in Toronto.
Scarborough transit was on former NDP MP Olivia Chow’s mind as she launched her campaign to be Toronto’s next mayor. At 11 a.m. on March 13, Chow stepped onto the podium at St. Simon-the-Apostle Anglican Church at 525 Bloor St. E. to address a large crowd of supporters and media.
Former federal NDP leader and Toronto city councillor Jack Layton was officially honoured with a street renaming Sunday. The late politician has been immortalized with the renaming of “Don Jail Roadway” to “Jack Layton Way”…
Canada’s new immigration point system, set to come into effect May 4, 2013, drew criticism from some New Democrats during a language and culture celebration in Toronto. At a Wednesday (Feb. 20) celebration of International Mother Language Day, hosted by NDP MP Matthew Kellway (Beaches-East York), some NDP politicians expressed concern over planned changes to federal immigration policy.
Removing inequalities, through measures such as long-term job training and investment in post-secondary education, is part of the solutions to reducing violence on the street, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair said.