All Entries Tagged With: "politics"
Star: The Politics Of Gender
The Toronto Star offers a profile of mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson, while delving into the politics of being the only female in October’s mayoral race: “She’s plucky. And undeniably charming. As much as fighting the gender card, Thomson has been playing it. On occasion, when her male rivals begin laying into each other, Thomson will [...]
Scheuer: Politicans Aren’t Perfect
The Town Crier’s Kris Scheuer thinks that elected officials are often held to a much higher – even impossible – standard: “What I care more about is that politicians uphold the laws they govern. So they should not break the public’s trust by taking bribes or other forms of corruption, shouldn’t drink and drive, not [...]
Powers: Gotcha Giambrone
Tim Powers, one half of the pundit duo Silver-Powers, weighs in on the Giambrone affair, echoing colleague Adam Radwanski that its nobody’s business: “The way I see it, the more of this “gotcha” coverage of politicians’ personal lives, the more unappealing politics becomes to potential new entrants. Do we want to adopt a U.S.-British model [...]
Torontoist: Giambrone and Our Need for Political Wives
As part of a full-blown media frenzy on the Adam Giambrone/Kristen Lucas affair, Torontoist examines our contemporary political culture and the ongoing need for “political wives”: “We have no interest in speculating on the particulars of Giambrone’s personal relationships, we do not yet know how much of the report published today will stand, and we [...]
