All Entries Tagged With: "David Miller"

Hepburn: Miller May Still Be The Best Candidate For Mayor

Toronto Star columnist Bob Hepburn asserts that if he did decide to run for a third term, Mayor David Miller would likely win against the current field:
“He swept into power in 2003 promising to clean up corruption and incompetence at city hall and to reverse the city’s decline that started in the 1980s.  [...]

Miller Goes To Bat For Friends

What is David Miller’s endorsement worth?  That’s what we’ll find out as letters have begun to appear from the outgoing mayor in support of loyal team members running for re-election.  A TEN reader was kind enough to forward a letter (sounding more like a reference letter than an election piece) from Miller praising Ward 32 [...]

Sun: Miller, Retiring Councillors Hit The Bank

The Toronto Sun reports on the generous severance package Mayor David Miller, retiring councillors and those who suffer defeat in October -including mayoral candidates who currently sit on council – are all eligible for under the existing rules:
“Even if all three of the three councillors running for mayor lose the election to a council [...]

Lorinc: Interrupting This Announcement

Over at Spacing, John Lorinc suggests Mayor David Miller isn’t giving Joe Pantalone much room to maneuver in the Transit City debate:
“For some reason, however, the incumbent is refusing to give the sole pro-Transit City candidate the space to run with the ball. Instead, the funding fight is all about David Miller. It’s [...]

Goldsbie: Why The Left Has Already Given Up

Activist and National Post contributor Jonathan Goldsbie offers a detailed breakdown of the candidates – both past, present and purely speculative – of the left and where their support may (or may not) come from:
“I find it as difficult to trust a candidate who represents only the status quo as I do those candidates [...]

Granatstein Reviews Miller Record

Toronto Sun editor Rob Granatstein looks over the record of Mayor David Miller’s two terms in office and concludes there’s still work to be done:
“Job well done is the official view of Miller’s executive team, at least, as noted just before the budget was delivered in February. They believe the work they’ve done [...]

Lorinc: The Other Election Campaign

Spacing’s John Lorinc opines that the real candidate George Smitherman and Rocco Rossi are running against this October is Mayor David Miller:
“No, he hasn’t registered, and no, he won’t be on the ballot. But Miller last week unambiguously inserted himself into the 2010 mayoral campaign (not to mention the work of the next [...]

Gurney: Miller Deserves Praise. Seriously.

Writing in the National Post, columnist Matt Gurney thinks that compared to other levels of government, Mayor David Miller and his surplus should be applauded:
“The crazy thing about all this is that, compared with the clowns currently running the show in Ottawa and Queen’s Park, Miller actually looks pretty good on this one. [...]

Miller Surplus Announcement Fallout

After making an “important announcement” that the city had found a surprise $100M surplus in the 2010 budget, Mayor David Miller continues to be the subject of criticism for his tactics from political opponents and the media alike:
“What’s clear is that reducing the planned property tax increases serves Miller’s interests by boosting the election [...]

James: How Did A City That’s Broke Find $100 Million?

Star columnist Royson James reacts to today’s announcement that the City has found an additional $100M in funds:
“He undercut the campaigns of the council outsiders running for mayor. He reached into next year and attempted to set the budget for the incoming mayor and council. And he put the squeeze on Queen’s Park [...]

Miller Announcement Causes Stir

Since announcing last night that he has an “important announcement” to make this morning at City Hall, Mayor David Miller has set off rampant speculation on what exactly he will be announcing:
“The terse press release from Miller’s spokesperson Don Wanagas said TV news satellite trucks should arrive early to run cables. The unusual [...]

Kuitenbrouwer: Tory vs. Miller Still Best Game In Town

In addition to other musings about the mayoral race, the Post’s Peter Kuitenbrouwer writes about the exciting race that could have been:
“Tory/Miller: still the best game in town — a fair bit more beef at that banquet than all the press releases that Mr. Smitherman can e-mail out from whatever bunker he is [...]

Miller: Comments On City Spending “Ludicrous”

Mayor David Miller has indirectly responded to mayoral candidates George Smitherman, Rocco Rossi, Sarah Thomson and Giorgio Mammoliti as well as the Toronto Board of Trade for their comments this week on the city’s financial position:
“The truth of the matter is that the city spending has grown very modestly over the last few years, at [...]

Gee: City Unions Didn’t Realize How Good They Had It

Marcus Gee at the Globe bets the union that represents city employees is regretting pushing Mayor David Miller to a strike last summer: 

“[T]he two leading candidates to replace him are talking openly and aggressively about contracting out some city services delivered by union members.
It’s a radically different political landscape from the one the [...]

Miller To McGuinty: Butt Out Of Municipal Election

Mayor David Miller responds to Premier Dalton McGuinty’s public musings that a public debate on the TTC as an essential service “would be healthy if this became something that achieved a little bit more prominence during the course of the campaign”:
“He intervened in a municipal election. And that’s not right,” Mayor Miller told reporters this [...]

James: Where Is Giambrone’s ‘Leadership’?

Star scribe Royson James disagrees with Mayor David Miller in his assessment of how central TTC Chair Adam Giambrone has been in any improvements to the transit in Toronto.  He also thinks Giambrone will continue to be distracted:
“Miller had argued Giambrone should stay on as chair because he needs his “leadership to continue” on the [...]

James: Is City Really As Broke As It Says?

At The Star, columnist Royson James is skeptical of the 2010 budget which David Miller’s summarizes as “lowest taxes, unbeatable services, great city”:
“It’s an impossible fiscal formula the mayor is selling. No city has managed to pull off such a trick. Since Houdini started paying annual visits to Toronto city hall in 1991, introducing voodoo [...]