All Entries Tagged With: "Chris Selley"
NP Political Panel: Rob Ford’s Football Follies
This week’s National Post Municipal Election Panel features a discussion about mayoral candidate Rob Ford’s history as a coach and his relationship with the media:
“Selley I wasn’t accusing the Star of anything except boring me. But I think the effect of that coverage is fascinating. There is no reason to believe Ford [...]
NP Election Panel: The Sex, Drugs, Rock Campaign
This week’s municipal election panel in the National Post looks at the demise of the Mammoliti campaign and the interest in “the other Rocco”:
“GOLDSBIE When the campaign period began in January, I really didn’t expect the mayoral race to tread through all three of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Not before Labour Day, anyway. [...]
NP Election Panel: Knee-Jerk Reactions To G20 Violence
The National Post Municipal Election Panel reviews the responses to the G20 summit and the actions of police from the various mayoral candidates and local politicians:
“Goldsbie I actually found Smitherman’s remarks to be as tepid and intensely hedged as anything he ever says — when pressed, he refuses to use the word “inquiry,” [...]
NP Election Panel: Did Rob Ford Have A Giambrone Moment?
The National Post Election Panel discuss what mayoral candidate Rob Ford’s controversial phone call from last week means to his campaign:
“GOLDSBIE: This whole incident plays like a satire of Ford’s ethos: he will go to any length to help out a taxpayer who contacts him, but what happens when all the person [...]
NP Election Panel: Is Mammoliti’s Campaign All An Act?
In the latest installment of the National Post’s political panel, the three discuss the candidacy of Giorgio Mammoliti and whether he should be taken seriously:
“Selley Hey, I like his Gardiner plan too — a lot, in fact. I hope a viable candidate steals it and makes it a reality. But if it happens, [...]
NP Political Panel: Promising A Bright Future Of Status Quo
The National Post political panel examines the Joe Pantalone campaign and how the long-time councillor stacks up in the mayoral contest:
“Furey: That Pantalone recently polled behind Sarah Thomson shows that he’s done a lousy job of conveying whatever sparse policy ideas he actually has. His main defect — which many political operatives [...]
NP Political Panel: Transit Plan Jumps The Rails
The National Post’s Municipal Election Panel takes a look at mayoral candidate George Smitherman’s ‘Transit Delivered’ plan:
“Selley: I’m on board with anyone exploring alternative funding models, since we obviously can’t count on senior governments. But I’m struggling to verbalize the extent of my disdain for this plan. It might as well [...]
NP Election Panel: Ford’s Methods Foul Up Valid Views
The Post’s Municipal Election Panel this week discusses the candidacy of mayoral candidate Rob Ford and the resulting impact on the race:
“Selley: But Ford hasn’t really said much of anything, has he? Seems to me this might just be a big, early — and perhaps much-needed — “up yours” to the establishment [...]
NP Election Panel: Transit System Runs On Political Fumes
The National Post’s Municipal Election Panel discusses the aftermath of last week’s provincial budget, which included a significant drop in transit funding:
“Selley: The city certainly shouldn’t stop demanding better treatment from the province. But this serves as a timely, if unwelcome, reminder: We’re on our own. No infrastructure commitment from the province [...]
NP Election Panel: Diverse City, Not So Diverse Council
For their regular Monday installment of analysis on the 2010 election, the National Post Municipal Election Panel looks at diversity and how it factors into local politics:
“Selley: Neither the gender or ethnicity of a candidate nor his or her potential impact on the diversity of City Hall should be a conscious factor when [...]
NP Election Panel: If We Had $100m …
The National Post’s Municipal Election Panel gives their suggestions on what David Miller should have done with the $100M additional funds he announced over a week ago:
“Selley As the purported conservative here, I suppose I should really be saying, “Pay down $100-million worth of debt,” but to hell with it — I want [...]
NP Municipal Panel: Can City Hall Be More Civilized
The pundits who populate the National Post’s municipal election panel use their regular Monday morning space to discuss civility at City Hall:
“GOLDSBIE: A surprising proportion of Council flare-ups actually concern conflicting understandings of procedural rules, rather than ideological discord. You throw together that many strong, passionate personalities and larger-than-life characters on such [...]
NP Election Panel: Does The Mayoral Race Need A ‘Culture War’?
The latest installment of the Post’s municipal election panel has Selley, Furey and Goldsbie talking about Rocco Rossi’s “wedge” campaign tactics:
“Selley: First, I’m not sure cyclists are being “singled out” by Mr. Rossi any more than, say, unionized garbage collectors. And I’m not sure he’s trying to start a culture war either [...]
NP Election Panel: Smitherman On The Money?
The National Post’s municipal election panel examines George Smitherman’s reaction to the City’s 2010 budget announcement:
“Goldsbie: By the time I got to the end of it, I was moderately pleased that it wasn’t much worse. But that’s the charm of the middle, isn’t it? Of course, the structure of it is pretty naked. A [...]
NP Political Panel: The Post-Giambrone Mayoral Race
Posted Toronto’s municipal pundit panel debates the political landscape after the Adam Giambrone resignation:
“SELLEY: Smitherman must be sleeping easy right now. He’s the only candidate left with any pre-existing name recognition at all, and like any good Liberal he can roll with the ideological punches. He’ll have to stake out some territory at SOME point, [...]
Post Election Panel: Giambrone Makes Grade – Grade 10
In the second installment of the National Post’s election panel, the three pundits spar over Giambrone’s launch as well as voting rights:
“Selley: First of all, that crowd of teenaged cheerleaders at Adam Giambrone’s campaign launch was a little odd. Whenever Giambrone finished a paragraph with “and that’s why I’m running for mayor” they all screamed. [...]
National Post Unveils Election Panel
The National post has recruited pundits Anthony Furey, Chris Selley and Jonathan Goldsbie to weigh in on big topics being discussed in the leadup to Election Day in October. This week’s question: Can a right-winger win in Toronto? An excerpt:
“FUREY: Yes. That could definitely happen and perhaps should. The only question I’ve been grappling [...]
