All Entries Tagged With: "speech"
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 [...]
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 [...]
Smitherman Fine-Tunes Emerging Platform
Mayoral candidate George Smitherman kicked off the “Discussions @ The Bistro” series at well-known dining establishment Bistro 990 by expanding details on his campaign platform: “Smitherman said voters have lost patience with a municipal government that wants them to pay more in taxes for fewer services, earning cheers from audience of 80. At $125 a [...]
Giambrone: Let Non-Citizens Vote
Today’s Toronto Star features an excerpt from mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone’s campaign launch speech where he pledges to give non-citizens in Toronto the right to vote: “Newcomers are our colleagues and our employers. Newcomers are our neighbours, our teachers and our bus drivers. They pay property taxes, build our communities and make us stronger. It’s [...]
Online Community Reacts To Rossi
Yesterday’s speech by mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi garnered attention from all quarters, including the media. Rossi’s numerous policy pronouncements sparked a strong reaction from Toronto’s online community, particularly Rossi’s plans for transit in Toronto; more so than any single event in the campaign thus far. Toronto Public Space Committee founder Dave Meslin kicks it off: [...]
Torontoist On Rossi Empire Club Remarks
Local online hub Torontoist provides some analysis and comment on mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi’s policies he announced at his speech to the Empire Club of Canada yesterday: “Rossi made great hay in his speech about the need for a longer-term planning window. He made this point specifically with regards to the City’s always-contentious operating budget, [...]
Gee: Anchor Drops On Smitherman’s Smooth Sailing
Globe columnist Marcus Gee writes that George Smitherman may want to look in his review mirror: “Since John Tory pulled out of this year’s race for mayor earlier this month, George Smitherman has been the prohibitive favourite. No surprise, then, that he has been running a front-runner’s campaign: Keep your powder dry. Keep your statements [...]
Rossi Targets Transit, Unions, Finances
Mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi outlined several key priorities at a lunchtime speech to the Empire Club of Canada yesterday: “Mr. Rossi is promising to halt all but one of the city’s planned light-rail lines until he can review the project’s finances; to replace the Toronto Transit Commission’s board of councillors with private-sector experts; to create [...]
