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Seeing Prue in council would be terrific (I came around to his position on uniting the school boards only after arguing it out with his then-assistant), but I think like Marchese, the green grass of retirement might be calling.

... a fact that the Cressy campaign has made a prominent note of on its Facebook feed. I wouldn't normally say this sort of thing matters (apart from looking bad), but lesser stories have had legs. I also don't think there are many other ridings in Canada as in love with its social media as...

Now Milczyn got the last laugh in Etobicoke Lakeshore, this is no idle speculation. If Holyday decides that he's not done with politics after all, things could get very awkward for Leon. As for Ward 5, there is now no incumbent (Milczyn does not need to withdraw his name since he never...

Tory's 'SmartTrack' unveiled: http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2014/05/27/john_tory_promises_relief_rail_running_from_mississauga_to_toronto_to_markham.html

I was restricting my comments to their policy statements, such as they are. No doubt Tory is a decent guy, especially compared to Ford. Personal issues are by and large irrelevant, except when they reach the extreme levels of Ford's behaviour and its clear impact on his ability to do his job...

I, for one, will not miss the old streetcars. I have had to wrangle a stroller up and down those stairs one too many times.

To paraphrase a certain well-known Canadian politician, having to choose between Ford and Tory is akin to having to choose whether to be shot or hung.

It will be huge if it ever gets passed. This is the party that delivered a provincial Financial Accountability Office ... then didn't give it a budget or staff. This is the party that boldly promised a revised sex-ed curriculum, to hell with the bigots ... only to abandon it when those same...

So Doug's comments were as legitimate as the gas plant scandal. Got it.

Twitter was founded in 2006. So I am guessing people would get a pass for not tweeting before then.

The gated parks in London are members only, those members being residents around the square where the park is. You can't pay a fee to get in. After all, the whole point of the gates and fences is to keep the "wrong sort of people" (i.e. filthy proles) out. However, fences around private gardens...

For the record, I never said I'd vote for him if he did put out a plan. I might view him with a little more respect, though. In any case, the debate is rather academic. I am a Permanent Resident and cannot vote in any Canadian election. Furthermore, I live just across the border in Markham...

So he *hasn't* essentially bought into the Ford message of a chicken in every pot and lower taxes too? I have yet to hear him get down to brass tacks of actual things getting done. Chow has at least put out a concrete proposal for increasing bus service, for example. Mock it if you like, but she...

And apparently magical pixies will fund the Downtown Relief Line. Until Tory puts out a reasonable plan with specifics to fund construction and operation of the line (that does not prominently feature cutting waste and finding efficiencies) I will continue to view him as a Fordite who has had...

I'm wondering if anything's happening with a development happening on the SE corner of Black Creek and Eglinton Avenue West, where a No Frills now is (and where the Weston station of the killed-off Eglinton subway was going to be). I remember seeing a Metrolinx presentation that mentioned they'd...

TTC has Novabus LFS Smartbuses, Viva has LFX Articulateds. Both members of Novabus's popular LF series.

IF Ford drops out ... IF Stintz drops out and ALL her support goes to Tory ... IF Soknacki drops and ALL his support goes to Tory ... Then Tory MIGHT win. Ifs piled upon maybes, on top of perhapses. The Tory campaign couldn't have written a more flattering article if they had paid someone to...

Wong-Tam is being extremely smart. She ran a smart, highly organized campaign in 2010 in a race that was by no means a cakewalk (Ken Chan was the anointed Smitherman candidate, and ran KWT pretty close in the end). She has been constantly in the news, and the tenor is always of a smart, savvy...

$0. Canadian citizens owning property in Toronto can vote (thus explaining Chow talking to HK media), but they cannot donate a penny since they do not live in Ontario. I, meanwhile, can donate to any municipal candidate in Ontario I choose (and get a rebate to boot) simply by being a resident in...

Sooner or later, shovels will go into the ground, and the opponents of whichever scheme lost out will then only have a very narrow window to attempt to cancel the scheme without it costing hundreds of millions of dollars. Hence the furious hand-to-hand fighting going on before anything has...