Women’s groups claim their priorities not on candidates’ radar
The co-ordinator of the Toronto Women’s City Alliance says mayoral front-runners have virtually ignored women’s issues this campaign.
The co-ordinator of the Toronto Women’s City Alliance says mayoral front-runners have virtually ignored women’s issues this campaign.
By throwing her support behind George Smitherman, former mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson hopes to stop Rob Ford from becoming the next mayor of Toronto, she told Observer Thursday.
Sarah Thomson has dropped out of the Toronto mayoral race and is throwing her support to George Smitherman.
Toronto is 96th out of 96. Dead last. And city businesses say there’s nowhere to go but up. On Friday, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) staged a mayoral debate at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal…
Toronto’s five leading mayoral hopefuls all pledge to build a bus stop closer to Variety Village, but that’s where the consensus on accessible transit ends.
While Toronto’s mayoral hopefuls are busy debating LRT or subway, one proposed Scarborough line is conspicuously missing from the discussion.
Some of Toronto’s mayoral frontrunners are finding common ground when it comes to one issue: downsizing city council.
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…