All Entries Tagged With: "funding"
Warmington: Ford Needs To Take Axe To The Arts
The Sun’s Joe Warmington seems disappointed that Rob Ford has stated that he would not reduce arts funding if elected mayor on October 25th: “He has to be careful because if people want a status quo mayor, they’ll vote for one of the other three. Ford needs to be reminded for many he is a [...]
Candidates Vow To Increase Arts Funding
In anticipation of tonight’s debate on the arts, both mayoral candidates Rocco Rossi and George Smitherman released their proposals to enhance the creative community in Toronto: “Minutes after George Smitherman announced his plan to help Toronto’s culture scene “get its verve back” with former rival Sarah Thomson standing behind him in the lobby of Roy [...]
Gee: The Real Cost Of Rob Ford’s Financial Hard Line
Globe columnist Marcus Gee takes mayoral candidate Rob Ford to task for his ‘Waste Watch’ series which has recently focused on funding for harm reduction centres: “It plays well to voters who think city hall mollycoddles those on society’s fringes while ignoring the plight of the hard-working, law-abiding taxpayer. But it is a deliberate and [...]
Smitherman Hatches Pool Plan
Mayoral candidate George Smitherman released his latest policy proposal Friday, aiming to teach children to swim and to end the intergovernmental sparring over pool funding: “One of the highest rates of preventable deaths for kids is death from drowning,” Smitherman said Friday. “We saw these tragic circumstances repeated in our city just a few days [...]
Shotgun: Ford To Bring Home The Pork
The staunchly libertarian Shotgun Blog notes their disappointment in mayoral candidate Rob Ford boasting of his strong federal connections during a debate this week: (“The Ford family and the Flaherty family are very good friends. It’s a lot easier to pick up the phone and say, ‘Jim, I might need a couple of bucks to [...]
Rob Ford Apologizes For 2006 AIDS Comment
The Toronto Star reports that in a meeting with a gay HIV-positive resident, mayoral candidate Rob Ford apologized for comments he made about the transmission of AIDS: “Dieter Doneit-Henderson, 30, tells Ford how his 2006 comment – “If you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn’t get AIDS probably” – made [...]
James: Fanciful Transit Proposals Are Stuck In Traffic
The Star’s Royson James suggests most of the players in the transit debate are talking about expensive transit plans without any regard to current funding realities: “There is a mayoral candidate, Rocco Rossi, who says he’d put a stop to the current Transit City plan and review the proposal because he’s not sure if the [...]
Ford Admits 2006 AIDS Comment Was ‘Mistake’
After dismissing a campaign worker over postings on the subject on Twitter, mayoral candidate Rob Ford tells the National Post that he “made a mistake” in 2006 when he offered his opinion over the spread of the AIDS virus: “What I said four years ago was wrong. I made a mistake,” Mr. Ford told the [...]
Smitherman Challenges Ford Over Previous Gay Comments
Today’s mayoral debate at the Toronto Real Estate Board got personal after candidate George Smitherman took opponent Rob Ford to task over his statement in a 2006 Council debate that “if you’re not doing needles and homosexuality, you’re not going to get AIDS”: On stage, Smitherman demanded Ford justify his behaviour and his suitability for [...]
Levy: Pride Parade Controversy Brewing
Toronto Sun pundit Sue-Ann Levy reports that a number of the mayoral candidates are wading in to the debate over whether a group protesting “Israeli Apartheid” should be able to participate in this year’s Pride parade: “Mammoliti said he decided to step up to the plate because he did not agree with the move by [...]
Hudak Vows Secure Funding For City
In a speech to the Toronto Board of Trade, Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak weighed in on local municipal issues and pledged to establish long-term funding from the province to the City of Toronto: “Mr. Hudak said that as premier, “I would ensure that the city receives some long-term certainty about the provincial supports that [...]
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 means anything [...]
Mayoral Candidates See Silver Lining In Stalled Transit Funding
With yesterday’s budget announcement from the provincial government halting funding on the City’s transit plans, mayoral hopefuls have weighed in on what this means for the future of transit in Toronto: “For me, the province needs… to just take back the TTC completely, all the responsibility associated with it, and just allow (Toronto) to save [...]
Hume: Transit Ills Taking Back Seat To Scandal
Star Urban Affairs writer Christopher Hume opines that the current public outrage is misdirected; it should be focuses on senior levels of government, not TTC employees: “Forgotten in this downward spiral of anger and accusation is public transit itself. True, the TTC is topic No. 1 right now in Toronto, but does anyone dare believe [...]
Change Toronto: David Miller, Girlie Man?
Outspoken blog Change Toronto has some specific advice for all the mayoral candidates on how they may be able to finagle some additional cash out of the province and the feds: 1) No matter who your adversary – Premier, Prime Minister or even fellow Mayor – if you have a bully pulpit during their election [...]
