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Herald: Naheed Nenshi On Rob Ford
The other municipal story of the moment, Calgary mayor-elect Naheed Nenshi, speaking to the Calgary Herald about Toronto’s new mayor, Rob Ford: Calgary’s new mayor learned during a media scrum Monday night about the election of Rob Ford as Toronto’s new mayor. While many Hogtown scribes showed Cowtown envy, Nenshi himself was all congratulations and [...]
Rob Ford’s Toronto: Fewer Wildcat Strikes, More Subways
The Toronto Star outlines what voters can expect from the next four years under a Rob Ford administration, based on his campaign platform: Work for a union? If you are a garbage collector with the city, your job is about to be outsourced to a private company. If you happen to work for the TTC, [...]
Toronto Voters Grapple With Competing Anxieties
The Globe and Mail speaks to a number of Toronto voters and find that they are going to the polls with significant concerns about their future in the city – regardless of who wins: “The way a cascading series of public-opinion polls have set up this election, Monday’s results come down to competing anxieties. Whichever [...]
Down To The Wire In Mayor’s Race
The leading three mayoral candidates were campaigning hard on the final weekend before the vote, with Rob Ford continuing to be the topic of conversation: “Smitherman admitted the close race means it’s critical to get out the vote and urged “progressive voters to use their vote wisely because there are only two clear choices for [...]
Ford Slow To Share Results Of Controversial Survey
The Globe and Mail checks in on the surveys the Rob Ford campaign had sent to all local candidates,which they pledged to offer to the public: “Mr. Ford was accused of trying to start an informal party back in September when he distributed a questionnaire asking council candidates where they stood on five of the [...]
Liberals See A Possible Upside To A Ford Win
Provincial Liberals are already contemplating Rob Ford as Mayor of Toronto while also examining how Ford could offer them a tactical advantage in the upcoming election: “The Machiavelli in me sees a great deal of opportunity for us if Rob Ford wins,” confided one GTA Liberal MPP, with a mischievous grin. “If he screws up, [...]
Ford Slams Smitherman Over Donor List
Mayoral candidate Rob Ford was quick to jump on opponent George Smitherman over Smitherman’s decision not to release his list of contributors before Monday’s vote: Ford and Joe Pantalone have both released their donor lists but under the election rules can still raise cash right up to the end of the year. Ford called on [...]
Eye Weekly Interviews Mel Lastman
Eye Weekly sits down with former mayor Mel Lastman to get his thoughts on the last seven years and to get his advice for the next mayor of Toronto: You said that council was less self-serving when you were there — what is the next mayor going to have to do to restore the situation? [...]
How The Candidates Are Getting Supporters To Vote
The Globe and Mail looks at the activities of each of the three leading mayoral campaigns as they head into the final weekend before Monday’s vote: “Arlene and I are close friends with George and his family, and we have always supported each other in our campaigns,” said Liberal MP and foreign affairs critic Bob [...]
There Are 37 Other People Running For Mayor. Seriously
The National Post offers a piece profiling the lesser known (and in many cases the most colourful) candidates running for mayor of Toronto: The other Rocco Rocco Achampong is an articulate lawyer who moved to the top of the second-tier of candidates but could make it no farther. Some believe he could have been a [...]
Hotel Workers’ Union Endorses Smitherman
George Smitherman welcomed the support of another labour organization – the city’s hotel workers say Smitherman would be the best to help the city’s immigrant workers: “Unite Here Local 75 became the latest labour union to endorse the former deputy premier, after the Central Ontario Building Trades, which represents 60,000 Torontonian construction workers, announced earlier [...]
Smitherman Holds Off Releasing Donor List
With Joe Pantalone and Rob Ford releasing their list of donors this week, George Smitherman is the remaining mainstream candidate who has not done so before Election Day: “Smitherman’s campaign says it won’t release his list early, as has been the tradition in the past two elections, but will do so “in compliance with the [...]
Joe Pantalone Releases Donor List; Notables Include Jack Layton, Sam Sniderman
Mayoral candidate Joe Pantalone unveiled his list of campaign donors yesterday, which included a few notable supporters: “Toronto banned corporate and union donations for the first time in this municipal election. But that hasn’t kept union leaders, developers and lobbyists from making personal donations to Mr. Pantalone’s campaign. John Cartwright, the head of the Toronto [...]
Ford A Man Of Change — Poll
A new Leger poll conducted for the Toronto Sun has George Smitherman and Rob Ford in a dead heat, while a majority of respondents see Rob Ford as an agent of change: Nearly half of all respondents (47%) believe Ford would bring the most change, if elected. Only 23% consider Smitherman as someone that would [...]
Ford Making Largest Social-Media Footprint
The Globe talks to social media consultant Brett Bell (er, me) about the social media metrics of the 2010 election and what kind of indications they may provide to the outcome of Monday’s vote: “Mr. Bell reviewed the online footprints of Toronto’s three major mayoral candidates Tuesday after social-media measurements proved better prognosticators than polls [...]
YWCA Issues Anti-Ford Statement
The YWCA took the unusual step of weighing on on the mayoral race, via a statement criticizing candidate Rob Ford for his position on community housing: “In a release issued on Tuesday, the organization chronicled its past relationship with the city councillor, saying he campaigned against an affordable housing project in his riding and backed [...]
Polarizing Candidates Bring Voters To The Polls
The Toronto Star reports that the number of Toronto residents taking advantage of the advance polls is up substantially from the 2006 election: “The weekend’s numbers brings advance voting turnout to 77,397. That’s an increase of 82.5 per cent over 2006, when a total of 42,413 voters came out for advance polls. Myer Siemiatycki, a [...]
