The audience at the 21st annual Agnes Macphail awards got more than they bargained for when Jenni Dwyer took the microphone and gave her speech on Mayor Rob Ford. Perhaps more shocking than the speech itself is that it came from the mind of a 12 year old.
Toronto Councillor Doug Ford announced Thursday February 20 that he will not be running for a seat at Queen’s Park, instead opting to run the municipal re-election campaign for his brother, Rob Ford. With both…
The owner behind @TORodFrod hopes Twitter will allow him to once again tweet from the account after changing the account’s avatar and bio.
Mayor Rob Ford and his brother, Councillor Doug Ford, are set to release more videos on their “Ford Nation” Youtube channel today, the Mayor’s office confirmed to the Toronto Observer.
With the 2014 Toronto municipal elections in the near future, local song writer Marc Coward did the mayor the courtesy of writing him a campaign song.
The University of Toronto Scarborough Campus hosted a panel discussion for five of the mayoral candidates on Feb. 5. Candidates David Soknacki, Rob Ford, Robb Johannes, Al Gore and Richard Underhill attended the first mayoral panel of the campaign.
The 2010 shooting death of a father by his son using a crossbow at Main Street library was raised Thursday during the Toronto budget debate at City Hall. Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon referenced the murder of Si Cheng in response to an unsuccessful money-saving proposal by Mayor Rob Ford to cut security guards at libraries.
The debate for the 2014 budget started on Wednesday at Toronto City Hall with the approval of a 2.71 per cent property tax hike. But there were protests and security guards had to be called in to remove rowdy members of the public.
A motion to add $7.7 million dollars to the proposed fire services budget was struck down Thursday night at city council. Councillors voted instead to add almost $2 million — enough to save one truck.
Going into Toronto city council’s two-day budget talks, Mayor Rob Ford had a plan. Ford had prepared a series of 18 motions that outlined what he would do to save the city $60 million dollars….