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Star: Candidates Debate Youth Issues
Six mayoral candidates, including Rocco Achampong, gathered Thursday night for a debate on city issues facing Toronto’s youth.
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Star:Rob Ford would be a disaster as Toronto mayor
Rob Ford loves to portray himself as the champion of the little guy, a lone wolf fighting on behalf of taxpayers fed up with waste and incompetence at city hall. It’s a role Ford has honed to perfection during his 10 years as a Toronto City Councillor. Now, the combative councillor from Etobicoke North is [...]
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FAB: Keith Cole for mayor?
Matt Thomas hits the campaign trail with Keith Cole, Toronto’s perverted cabaret king, as he shocks and inspires with his atypical race for the mayor’s office.
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EYE: Understanding “suburban fury”
If Toronto mayoral frontrunner Rob Ford is tapping into “suburban fury,” his opponents need to better understand this phenomenon in order to close the apparently ever-widening gap. Thankfully, a Canadian-based think-tank called Arcade Fire has been studying the suburbs, and recently released their findings in a 65-minute audio-visual presentation entitled The Suburbs.
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NOW: A Rocco and a hard place
When Rocco Rossi entered the race for mayor all those moons ago, many asked, “Rocco who?” Indeed, outside backroom political circles, both Tory and Liberal, Rossi was an unknown. Eight months into the longest mayoral race in living memory, Rossi continues to be a huge question mark for voters, tracking in the single digits in [...]
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Torontoist: Mayoral Electograph: Into the Home Stretch
The Mayoral Electograph—appearing occasionally on Torontoist—combines poll data, statistical analysis, whimsy, and personal bias to assess the fortunes of key mayoral candidates in a colourful, easy-to-read chart–style thing. Click here to read more
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G&M: It’s debate-apalooza!
Are you craving more Toronto debate action, but without Rob Ford’s promises to halt the gravy train, Rocco Rossi’s warmed-over one-liners and Sarah Thomson’s motherly tut-tutting of the “boys” in the race? Then your friendly neighbourhood cable channel has you covered .
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G&M: Smitherman sees tax hike as way to fix high youth unemployment