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What Miscreant said. The experts made their determination after detailed study and consultation and I trust those determination more than my uninformed opinion. It just so happens that they agree, so I haven't dug too much deeper. It follows logically though, that if you believe that being...

No. There's a difference between calling to have a specific pot hole fixed (311), and having a conversation with your councillor because you feel that the city is falling too far behind on road repair.

Also a splash of cold water on anyone outside of Toronto who has brushed this off as just a Toronto problem. Now everyone gets to worry about their local democracy being demolished.

The first and most important job of a politician, especially at a local level is representing their constituents. If i have an issue with city governance, i want to talk to my elected politician, not a bureaucrat. If city councilors are to act as managers, we need elected community councils at...

The 44 ward system was not representative of Toronto's population. It gave disproportionate weight to suburban wards. There were extensive consultations and subsequent challenges where the 47 ward system won out as the best option. I choose to trust the judement of the experts and judges we...

If your boss doubled the amount of work you have to do every day, how effective would you be?

Doesn't matter if the chance of winning is nearly zero. After today's nonsense, anyone who wants to try for it has my full support.

I realize there's still lots of time for things to change, but Singh has unfortunately proven to be a fairly weak leader so far. I hope he can step up his game. Between that and Bernier's 17% support for a party that doesn't even exist yet, it's looking like next year's election could be a...

I'll leave this playlist as an example of where the edibles scene has gone in the US states where the recreational market has been around for a few years. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnPDn1Lb79JHa7IiQk9k9rJhwuGJn43q2 We'll see if this a long term thing or a fad soon enough, but...

It's a mystery to me why anyone would turn to safe synthetic THC when safe and natural THC is so readily and inexpensively (free if you grow it yourself) available. The flavours and effects of different strains are more comparable to alcohol consumption that they are to taking drugs. THC is...

There are a large number of people who won't smoke it simply because of the association with the harms of smoking tobacco. My aging father has recently started making his own magic brownies to help him deal with his back pain and help him sleep at night (works better than anything his doctor...

No. Not as long as there's a potential for ending up with someone like Ford down the line.

I don't understand how anyone who lived through Rob Ford's tenure as mayor could seriously argue for a strong mayor system.

I fundamentally disagree with this. Individual councillors are a product of the wards they were elected in. Their job in council is to fight for the needs of of their constituents. The reason they have so much trouble coming to consensus is because the needs of the different wards in the city...

This is not a response to the above few posts, but to all who were indicating that 25 (or fewer) concillors may be enough. A comment was made in defense of this cut (further up in this thread, or in another thread where this issue is being discussed) indicating that it is the bureaucracy that...

No one should drop out yet. There hasn't even been any legislation tabled. My guess is that no one is going to do anything until just before the new deadline to give time for a legal injunction to be put into place.

I'm no lawyer or constitutional scholar but I did find this: http://lawiscool.com/2010/03/27/how-to-secede-from-ontario/ If true, while a constitutional amendment might be best, it may not be the only way forward. Regardless though, I don't think going all the way through to a full secession...

I'm sure there are lawyers already busy putting together the paperwork.

I don't know if full secession from the province is the right answer, but the city does need autonomy and freedom from the whims of whoever is in Queens Park. It is the is the economic engine of the province, a fact rejected by many/most who live outside Toronto who believe the exact opposite...

Any legal experts that can comment on the likelihood of him being able to do this in time for the election? It seems to me that even if he manages to change the needed laws in time, legal challenges could tie this up until well after the election.