All Entries Tagged With: "Editorial"

Sun Ed: Furious George Jumps The Gun

The Editorial Board of the Toronto Sun thinks mayoral candidate George Smitherman has been acting a tad presumptuous these days:
“We know there’s a hotly contested mayor’s race, with the winner to be decided by voters Oct. 25. Smitherman, on the other hand, acts as if it’s a done deal.
Last month he was off to China [...]

Star Editorial: Merging Fire, Ambulance

The Editorial Board of the Toronto Star offers their view that the proposed merger of Fire and EMS announced by mayoral candidate George Smitherman is worth considering:
“Advocates of a fire/ambulance merger say that a streamlined and better-integrated dispatch system could shave precious seconds, and perhaps minutes, from the arrival time for life-saving crews. [...]

Sun Ed: Mayor’s Race Is All About Rob Ford

The Toronto Sun’s Editorial Board shows no surprise that mayoral candidate Rob Ford is now the focus of rivals, nor that he is ahead in the polls:
“Torontonians elected David Miller as mayor in large part because at the time, they wanted someone as unlike his predecessor, Mel Lastman, as possible.
Ironically, Ford’s popularity is [...]

Star Op-Ed: Ford, On The Record

The Star’s Editorial Board wants to remind voters of mayoral candidate Rob Ford’s long history of controversial comments he’s made in his 10 years on council:
“For example, when advocates for the homeless staged a loud protest at city hall, Ford’s response was: “I’m working. Why don’t you get a job?” Also on the [...]

Sun Ed: Giorgio Mammoliti Misfires

The Toronto Sun Editorial Board pulls no punches on assessing mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti’s latest policy announcement to arm by-law officers:
“His radio ads end with the tag line, “let them call me outrageous.”
Actually, “outrageous” would be an improvement for Mammoliti, who is rapidly approaching “irrelevant,” with occasional gusts up to “idiotic.”
Now, it’s one thing [...]

Star Editorial: Smitherman’s Busy Man

“The Toronto Star Editorial Board is hoping that Smitherman campaign manager Bruce Davis doesn’t overextend himself in his various jobs as Trustee, TDSB Chair and B&B owner:

“As Davis explains it, then, he will be able to meet all the competing demands on his time. Still, one is left with concern that at least one [...]

Star Op-Ed: Mayoral Race Heats Up

The Toronto Star editorial page features a piece that pleas with Toronto’s mayoral candidates to keep the gloves up and focus on the issues:
The two perceived front-runners, George Smitherman and Rocco Rossi, couldn’t resist exchanging nasty one-liners, with Rossi at one point accusing his rival of wasting $1 billion in the eHealth fiasco [...]

Star Editorial: Reject Legal Office For Councillors

The Toronto Star’s editorial board is recommending Councillor Moscoe’s motion to set up an Office of Independent Counsel to defend councillors against outside lawsuits be rejected at Council this week:
“Councillors are already well-protected. They have direct access to a public pulpit (the council chamber) to defend themselves. They have lavish expense budgets, in [...]

Sun Ed: Level Toronto’s Election Playing Field

The Editorial Board of the Toronto Sun takes aim at the advantages incumbent councillors enjoy against opponents seeking to replace them:
The first thing that needs to be reined in, severely, are councillors’ $53,100-a-year office budgets, which are used for an orgy of self-promotion.
This includes everything from producing what are really glossy election [...]

Sun Ed: Thomson Grabs Road Tolls By The Horns

While giving kudos for bringing the road toll issue to the forefront of Toronto’s election debate, the Toronto Sun has concerns over Sarah Thomson’s plan to fund subway expansion:
The problem with Thomson’s proposal — aside from making drivers pay twice for roads their taxes already built — is it disproportionately hits some motorists [...]

Star Editorial: Lame Duck Lingers At TTC

With Adam Giambrone recently making his withdrawal from the mayoral race official, the Toronto Star Ed Board renews their call from Giambrone to resign as TTC Chair:
“One month has passed since the high-profile implosion of Giambrone’s mayoral hopes. And no one should begrudge this relatively young politician for taking some time to collect [...]

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 [...]

Star Op-Ed: Outsourcing Worth A Look

In the opinion pages of today’s Toronto Star, the editorial board believes that a full debate on privatization of municipal services is a worthy exercise:
“Proponents point to garbage disposal as a fertile area for this approach, noting that private sector firms already collect a great deal of commercial waste and also pick up [...]

Sun Editorial: Can Rocco Rossi Rock The Vote?

The Toronto Sun Editorial Board sat down with mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi to discuss his candidacy.   While its early for endorsements, the folks at the Sun seem initially impressed:
“Rossi’s no ingenue. His years as a Liberal backroomer, manager of John Tory’s credible 2003 mayoral campaign and as a senior executive in both [...]

Giambrone’s Future As TTC Chair Debated

With Adam Giambrone leaving the mayoral race under a cloud of controversy, calls for him to resign as TTC Chair continue to grow.  The Toronto Sun Editorial Board leads the charge:
But how can the disgraced Giambrone head the TTC in the midst of the worst customer relations crisis in its history, which occurred on his [...]

Sun Editorial: Giambrone’s Train Wreck

The Editorial Board of the Toronto Sun thinks the Kristen Lucas affair proves that mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone is not ready to lead Toronto:
“Adam Giambrone: Can’t run the TTC. Can’t run his personal life.
Not much of a campaign slogan, but apparently he still wants to be mayor.
Giambrone denies there was sex, but confessing only when [...]

Star Editorial: Rightward Tilt In Mayoral Race?

Today’s Toronto Star features an editorial on the series of right-wing policies being offered by candidates who otherwise would be firmly in the centre of the the political spectrum:
“A packed field on the left side of the political spectrum appears to be pushing some identified Liberal candidates to make some small-c conservative promises in hopes [...]