All Entries Tagged With: "policies"
Rossi Would Give Biz Groups ‘Pipeline’ Into City Hall
Mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi has pledged to give local Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) a greater say at what happens at City Hall: “At a Wednesday morning speech, Rossi pledged to give Toronto’s roughly 70 so-called business improvement areas, representing 27,000 business and property owners, “a seat at the table and a voice in decisions,” if [...]
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 [...]
Granatstein: Off The Rails
Sun Editor Rob Granatstein would like to see some detailed planning go along with all the pledges from Toronto’s mayoral candidates to fund new subway construction: “What if there aren’t the population densities necessary to support subways, or make the return on investment worthwhile today, or in 25 years, when we have another million people [...]
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 candidates. If [...]
Torontoist Interviews New Candidate Kevin Beaulieu
Hot on the heels of Adam Giambrone’s announcement he would not seek re-election in Ward 18, Torontoist sat down with his Executive Assistant Kevin Beaulieu to discuss his recently announced candidacy: “You are being described as the man to whom the torch is being passed by Adam Giambrone. Is that a fair assessment? No, I [...]
First Mayoral Debate Gets Testy
In the first of likely many debates between the six higher-profile mayoral candidates, the exchanges between some became fairly heated at times: “When Mr. Rossi next rose to speak, he slammed the former health minister’s record at Queen’s Park. “If he hadn’t blown a billion dollars on eHealth with nothing to show for it and [...]
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 Etobicoke’s [...]
Rossi Addresses Toronto Board of Trade, Slams Smitherman
This afternoon, mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi addressed a Toronto Board of Trade lunchtime audience to discuss his ideas for how to manage the city’s finances. Accordingly, his speech was entitled “Let this be our last budget crisis.” From the Board’s website: “Getting Toronto back on track, the central theme of Mr. Rossi’s speech, stuck close [...]
Granatstein: Is Toronto Ready For Rocco Rossi?
Sun editor Rob Granatstein offers a report from mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi’s meeting with the Toronto Sun Editorial Board last week: “We’re at that point where the historical good fortune of Toronto is now being put to the test in a far more competitive world,” Rossi said during a meeting with the Toronto Sun editorial [...]
Mammoliti Launches Mayoral Bid
Mayoral candidate and long-time councillor Giorgio Mammoliti officially launched his campaign bid last night with a $250.00-a-head fundraising dinner. In his speech he outlined a number of policy planks, including asking the province to take over the TTC and turning portions of Yonge Street into a pedestrian-only mall. He also took square aim at [...]
Hume: Rossi’s Jarvis Proposals: A Road To Nowhere
Urban Issues columnist Christopher Hume offers his views on mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi’s controversial Jarvis bike lane policy: “Though it’s unlikely he will succeed, his popularity offers clear evidence of the growing backlash against the sort of progressive policies that have made Toronto one of the planet’s most admired cities. Tolerance, the quality for which [...]
Pantalone: City Cannot Afford An Outsider Mayor
At the opening of his campaign office, Deputy Mayor and mayoral candidate Joe Pantalone gave some specifics on what may be in his eventual platform and why Toronto cannot afford someone who hasn’t been intimately involved in municipal government: “Torontonians cannot afford, if you want to protect this amazing city, people who don’t know how [...]
First Task For New Mayor: Get Spending Under Control
Chief Economist for TD Don Drummond and Toronto Board of Trade CEO Carol Wilding have penned a guest op-ed in the Toronto Star on the key fiscal priorities for the next mayor, regardless of whom that may be: “Toronto taxpayers are facing a $9.2 billion budget that includes a 2.5 per cent overall property tax [...]
Rossi Takes To Blog To Level Shot At “Furious George”
Expanding on his Twitter comments and their sparring in media publications, mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi took to his official campaign blog to level a shot at opponent George Smitherman on his response to the 2010 City Budget: “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I have been calling for multi-year planning, line by line review [...]
Smitherman Attacks City Budget
Mayoral candidate George Smitherman weighs in on the 2010 budget (and taking a shot at rival Rocco Rossi) while outlining specific policies he would implement if elected mayor: “The inescapable reality is that in order to fix the budget, we need to fix City Hall. We need to quit thinking one step ahead when the [...]
Granatstein: Time For A New Toronto Mayor To Handle City Budget
Rob Granatstein at the Toronto Sun is hoping that the residents of Toronto are ready for a new budget under a new mayor: “The city’s finance staff did an excellent job of finding money under every stone, based on the direction by Miller and council. If you want a different way of looking at the [...]
Candidates Weigh In On City’s Books
All attention at City Hall yesterday was focused on the 2010 City Budget, which came in balanced after a tax hike, more user fees and some cuts to services. The mayoral candidates offer their views: “Joe Pantalone: “When I become mayor, it would be my intention that the unsustainable parts (of the budget) will disappear. [...]
