All Entries Tagged With: "Toronto Sun"
Sun Editorial: Ford’s Election A Game Changer
The Toronto Sun Editorial Board offers their view that the election sends a clear signal that voters want to see results, and are looking to mayor-elect Ford and Council to deliver: “As mayor, Ford now has an obligation to work with this new council and to govern for the good of the entire city. But [...]
Toronto Editorial: Change At City Hall Is Possible
The Toronto Sun editorial board encourages voters to support candidates for council who share their views on spending and taxes: “While the mayor leads council, when it comes to the actual voting, he’s just one voice of 45. So, how did you like those other 44 votes, collectively, for the past two terms and seven [...]
Levy: Smitherman Shows His True Colours At Debate
The Sun’s Sue-Ann Levy offers that George Smitherman’s response to a heckler was very telling: “The heckling from someone imploring him to “answer the question” came after opponent Joe Pantalone asked Smitherman how he planned to improve services by cutting $808-million from the budget — part of True George’s fiscal platform. Smitherman stopped his explanation [...]
Worthington: Behind The Rob Ford Surprise
Sun pundit Peter Worthington looks at why Rob Ford has had such success in the 2010 election, when incumbents are under fire: The fact that council on occasion has wanted Ford reprimanded or punished for not spending enough on his own office, or for buying his own paper clips, is hardly reason for voting him [...]
Toronto Sun: Rob Ford For Toronto
The Toronto Sun Editorial Board has offered its endorsement to mayoral candidate Rob Ford, which they hope will bring real change at City Hall: Ford has made a point at City Hall not just to help his own constituents — which starts with returning their phone calls — but people from right across the city. [...]
Levy: Joe Pants Still In The Dark
Sun columnist Sue-Ann Levy came off unimpressed with mayoral candidate Joe Panalone’s answers to questions while meeting with the paper’s editorial board: “When we pressed further about the disconnect between the public and Socialist City Hall, Pantalone claimed it was more “myth than reality” and we at the Toronto Sun, in fact, have “fed the [...]
Granatstein: Giving Thanks In Toronto
While giving thank for living in a great city, the Sun’s Rob Granatstein also carves up a few “turkeys”: “Let’s start with Adam Giambrone, who still doesn’t get it isn’t all about him. I’m talking about that $15,000 spent on his chair’s report with all the pictures of him, and being the main character in [...]
Ashton: Seeking Globs Of Budget Fat
Retiring councillor Brian Ashton is wondering exactly where mayoral candidates Rob Ford and George Smitherman will trim the city’s fat: “There is no question judicious and surgical cuts can produce savings. But it suspends common sense to suggest that after nearly 13 years of post-amalgamation retrenchment there are globs of fat left on the bone. [...]
Sun Editorial: Show Some Balls, Rocco
The Toronto Sun counsels mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi that if he is to have a chance to win on October 25, he needs to make some moves, and fast: “He seems content to be the “Mr. Nice Guy” of this race. As he puts it, the most popular second choice of Ford and Smitherman supporters. [...]
Goldstein: Why Are Rob Ford’s Critics So Angry?
The Sun’s Lorrie Goldstein thinks it’s hypocritical of Rob Ford’s opponents to dismiss Ford’s supporters are “angry”: That Ford’s opponents routinely employ such furious rhetoric to portray not just Ford, but his supporters, as “angry,” isn’t just ironic. It’s hilarious. Premier Dalton McGuinty and Transportation Minister Kathleen Wynne — leading a charge of furious Liberal [...]
Sun Editorial: Wanted: A Kinder, Gentler City Hall
In their latest editorial, the Toronto Sun suggests some simple steps Toronto Council could take to address some of the anger residents currently express: “Few things infuriate people more than that “gotcha” moment when they return to their vehicles a couple of minutes late and there’s that ticket, already waiting for them on the windshield. [...]
Sun Editorial: George Smitherman, Tax Fighter?
Mayoral candidate met with the Editorial Board of the Toronto Sun to defend his provincial record as well as explain how he will tackle Toronto’s budget: “Smitherman said he’ll use his first 100 days in office to do a “full Oprah” review of the budget, cross-examining senior staff about where waste can be cut responsibly. [...]
Sun Ed: ‘Anybody But Ford’ Won’t Help George
The Toronto Sun Editorial Board doesn’t think that mayoral candidate George Smitherman’s strategy to position himself as the natural alternative to opponent Ford is flawed: “There’s also no guarantee Pantalone, Rossi and Thomson will just give up and support Smitherman and no reason they should. Even if they did, their supporters may not follow. The [...]
Delirious George Running In Furious Circles
Writing in the Toronto Sun, scribe Jim Merriam uses his column to take shots at both Dalton McGuinty and mayoral candidate George Smitherman: “Smitherman, with his campaign flip-flops on issues such as taxes for small businesses, is beginning to look almost as indecisive as McGuinty. As Premier Dad has been morphing into Premier Bad over [...]
Goldstein: Rob Ford’s Summer Romp
The Sun’s Lorrie Goldstein figures that Rob Ford has quickly put to rest the conventional wisdom that campaigns don’t begin until after Labour Day: What the Nanos/CTV/Globe poll of 1,021 likely voters taken Sept. 14 – 16 suggests, with a few unlikely qualifiers, is this race was decided long before Labour Day on Sept. 6. [...]
Sun: Ford Running Strong In Polls
The Toronto Sun is reporting on a new poll to be released today that has mayoral candidate Rob Ford holding a strong lead over his rivals: “I have heard there is a poll coming out but I don’t know what is in it,” Ford said Saturday. When told sources say his percentage may have increased [...]
Warmington: Peddie Says Next Mayor Needs Vision
The Sun’s Joe Warmington speaks with Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment CEO Richard Peddie to discuss the mayoral race: “Unfortunately in listening to the five major candidates for mayor I don’t hear, or begin to understand, their long-term vision for Toronto,” says Peddie in a copy of the speech I obtained that he is set [...]
