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Mayoral candidates clash on immigration
Mayoral candidates Rob Ford and George Smitherman traded angry barbs at Tuesday night’s televised debate, with immigration, the fair wage policy and the Woodbine Live racetrack development the main topics of contention.
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Artsvote Deputation To City Council Executive (text)
ArtsVote Toronto is a coalition of volunteers working to elect candidates who support the arts in the October municipal election. ArtsVote believes that strong arts policies and greater public investment in the arts are essential to the wellbeing of our citizens, the vitality of our neighbourhoods and communities, and the prosperity of our city. ArtsVote [...]
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// Executive unanimously recommends increase in arts investment to $25 per-capita
August 16 Community Release Executive unanimously recommends increase in arts investment to$25 per-capita Toronto, ON // Today the Executive Committee of the City of Toronto unanimously recommended an increase in arts funding to $25 per capita by 2013. Pending approval by Council on August 25/26 this will result in 17.5 million dollars in additional investment [...]
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Smitherman big winner with seniors
If the fall election was left up to an auditorium of senior citizens, George Smitherman would be the next mayor of Toronto. Read More
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Save the Date!
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Who’s Running – Who Isn’t
Some great visual representations of the Council and Mayoral race in Toronto, courtesy of Dave Meslin. Click on the map below:
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The race this week – The National Post
Tory, Tory, Tory Facing fresh speculation on a John Tory mayoral bid, front-runner Rob Ford — who is campaigning on the need to reduce wasteful spending at City Hall — reacted with confidence, saying he is in the game to stay. Mr. Tory, the former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader turned talk-show host, grabbed headlines this [...]
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Charticle: So you think you can be mayor? Read more: http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/07/29/charticle-so-you-think-you-can-be-mayor/#ixzz0vAhqFZqN
A prominent Calgary news anchor declared on Wednesday she’s running for mayor, the latest in a string of high-profile candidates to seek mayor’s chairs across Canada in elections due this fall. Barb Higgins, 47, resigned last week from her job at CTV Calgary, and on Wednesday described herself as a fiscal conservative with a ‘‘social [...]
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Thomson loves ‘scary’ things — like politics