All Entries Tagged With: "Editorial"
Globe Ed: Rob Ford’s Election Is A Mandate For Change
The Globe and Mail editorial board offers that the larger challenge for mayor-elect Rob Ford is to successfully bring change to Toronto: “Mr. Ford ran a blunt campaign that fed an appetite for change. He responded to, as he put it in his victory speech last night, a popular sense that “enough is enough”. But [...]
Star Editorial: Ford Needs To Reach Out
The Toronto Star Editorial Board thinks that mayor-elect Rob Ford’s first order of business is to start building bridges with Council and other stakeholders: “He needs to extend a hand beyond the right-wing councillors who backed his campaign to the more progressive ones who opposed him. It would make sense for Ford to put at [...]
Spacing Votes: Round-Up: The Endorsing Editorials
Spacing Votes provides a helpful summary of the various newspaper and blog editorials offering their picks for the next mayor of Toronto: “The Toronto Sun also published its endorsement last Sunday, but went the other way, endorsing Rob Ford. The editorial argues he’s the only person who can tackle the big job of cleaning up [...]
Toronto Editorial: Change At City Hall Is Possible
The Toronto Sun editorial board encourages voters to support candidates for council who share their views on spending and taxes: “While the mayor leads council, when it comes to the actual voting, he’s just one voice of 45. So, how did you like those other 44 votes, collectively, for the past two terms and seven [...]
Star Editorial: Pros And Cons Of Strategic Voting
With many voters still weighing their options on who to vote for, the Toronto Star editorial board offers a strong defence of voting strategically – in this case, or George Smitherman: “First of all, they allege that Smitherman is no better or actually worse than Ford. Miller has stated that Smitherman, like Ford, wants to [...]
Torontoist: With Reservations, George Smitherman For Mayor
The cautious endorsements continue for mayoral candidate George Smitherman as online magazine Torontoist offers their (qualified) support: “The major complaints against Smitherman: he wasted millions of taxpayer dollars by mismanaging eHealth, he negotiated an enormous sole-source deal with Samsung while energy minister, he leads by bullying rather than consensus. These are all very real black [...]
Globe And Mail Endorses George Smitherman
The Globe and Mail Editorial Board has “cautiously” thrown its support behind mayoral candidate George Smitherman over opponent Rob Ford: “Mr. Ford and Mr. Smitherman have similarly unpersuasive and unsatisfactory platforms. In the end, Mr. Smitherman’s ability to get things done makes him the better candidate; Torontonians may have to live in hope that he [...]
Toronto Star: Smitherman For Mayor
The Toronto Star Editorial Board has endorsed mayoral candidate George Smitherman, citing his government experience and determination: “Smitherman’s sometimes pugilistic nature is often deplored by his opponents, who have nicknamed him “Furious George.” But there is another side to that coin: he can be tough-minded when he has to be. While rebuilding the health-care system [...]
Star Ed: Contributing To Debate
The Toronto Star Editorial Board praises former mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi for his contribution to the electoral debate: “Rossi’s candidacy was always something of a long-shot — especially after Rob Ford entered the fray and absorbed much of his expected support. But Rossi can take pride in waging a sincere and imaginative campaign that never [...]
Sun Editorial: Show Some Balls, Rocco
The Toronto Sun counsels mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi that if he is to have a chance to win on October 25, he needs to make some moves, and fast: “He seems content to be the “Mr. Nice Guy” of this race. As he puts it, the most popular second choice of Ford and Smitherman supporters. [...]
Six New Faces For Shaking Up Toronto City Council
The Toronto Star counsels Toronto voters offers endorsements in six wards across the city where strong challengers are facing incumbents: Rick Gosling, Ward 12, York South-Weston. Few people have served their community as long and hard as Gosling. In 1984, he founded Toronto Children’s Breakfast Club, giving thousands of underprivileged kids a square meal to [...]
Sun Editorial: Wanted: A Kinder, Gentler City Hall
In their latest editorial, the Toronto Sun suggests some simple steps Toronto Council could take to address some of the anger residents currently express: “Few things infuriate people more than that “gotcha” moment when they return to their vehicles a couple of minutes late and there’s that ticket, already waiting for them on the windshield. [...]
Broadbent: City Candidates Ignore Good News
In an guest op-ed in the Star, Maytree Foundation Chair Alan Broadbent reminds candidates and voters to look at the rhetoric about Toronto with skepticism: “Some people call election campaigns “the silly season” because of the overblown narratives to which candidates resort. Most of the aspirants run against the government they hope to lead or [...]
Sun Ed: ‘Anybody But Ford’ Won’t Help George
The Toronto Sun Editorial Board doesn’t think that mayoral candidate George Smitherman’s strategy to position himself as the natural alternative to opponent Ford is flawed: “There’s also no guarantee Pantalone, Rossi and Thomson will just give up and support Smitherman and no reason they should. Even if they did, their supporters may not follow. The [...]
Toronto Mayoralty: Ford Unsuited For The Role
The Toronto Star features an editorial critical of mayoral candidate Rob Ford, his record and his platform: “Many voters may see the election primarily as a referendum on the status quo and, thus, gravitate toward Ford, despite his flaws. But the purpose of the election is not to register a protest. Rather, it is to [...]
Star Ed: Platform Numbers Don’t Measure Up
The Toronto Star’s Editorial Board reviews the fiscal policies of each of the mayoral candidates and finds them lacking: “That’s not to say they have been silent on fiscal matters. Quite the contrary. There have been promises of tax cuts and service expansions, hiring freezes and asset sales, all spiced with repeated vows to “cut [...]
Sun Editorial: Ford’s Subways To Nowhere
The Toronto Sun Editorial Board pans the “airy fairy” transportation plan mayoral candidate Rob Ford announced earlier this week: “We’re surprised a city councillor who has built his career warning there’s no free lunch at city hall, now says there’s a free lunch when it comes to the new subways he’s proposing — at least [...]
