Electrify
Senior Member
As a GTA resident, this is getting frustrating. Obviously Toronto's mayoral election is the most important and affects the most people, but it is hardly the only one. Half of the people in the metro area live outside the city limits, so why are their local politics to be ignored?
Hell, some of them should be generating high interest, like the one in Vaughan with allegations of fraudulent electoral spending. If this happened in Toronto, it would be front page news until someone would be forced to resign. But since it happened in an adjacent municipality, it gets a small blurb on page 23. Speaking of which, before amalgamation were other Metro municipalities snubbed during local elections, while all the focus was on the old city of Toronto?
Sometimes I feel that Toronto's news media is designed to create infotainment on other places, with urban dwellers as the actors. All while keeping us from focusing on issues in our own backyard.
Hell, some of them should be generating high interest, like the one in Vaughan with allegations of fraudulent electoral spending. If this happened in Toronto, it would be front page news until someone would be forced to resign. But since it happened in an adjacent municipality, it gets a small blurb on page 23. Speaking of which, before amalgamation were other Metro municipalities snubbed during local elections, while all the focus was on the old city of Toronto?
Sometimes I feel that Toronto's news media is designed to create infotainment on other places, with urban dwellers as the actors. All while keeping us from focusing on issues in our own backyard.