All Entries Tagged With: "Torontoist"
Torontoist: Twelve Wards That Could Reshape Council, And Our Picks For The Best Candidate In Each
Online magazine Torontoist offers their picks for council in some of the hotly contested ward races across the city: Ward 29: Mary Fragedakis “Despite her slew of NDP endorsements, Fragedakis sounds a lot like her opponents on the major issues facing the ward and city at large. However, she is more nuanced than her opponents [...]
Torontoist: With Reservations, George Smitherman For Mayor
The cautious endorsements continue for mayoral candidate George Smitherman as online magazine Torontoist offers their (qualified) support: “The major complaints against Smitherman: he wasted millions of taxpayer dollars by mismanaging eHealth, he negotiated an enormous sole-source deal with Samsung while energy minister, he leads by bullying rather than consensus. These are all very real black [...]
Torontoist: Parsing The Mayoral Platforms: Finance And Budget
Online magazine Torontoist offers an in-depth examination of the financial platforms for each of the three leading mayoral candidates: Joe Pantalone The Small Wonder is walking a fine line when it comes to finance, because with other candidates fanning the flames of voter waste rage, he needs to at least pay lip service to the [...]
Torontoist Mayoral Electograph: Who Do You Love?
Local online hub Torontoist checks in on the chances of the remaining mayoral candidates, plotted by their Electograph: George Smitherman Electograph Score: 6/10 (+1) Now firmly back in Electographic second place, George Smitherman is the Anybody But Ford candidate of choice, with Sarah Thomson quitting to help him win and even donating the little Torys, [...]
Sun: Web Ad Targets Ford
The Toronto Sun takes notice of new online ads that popped up on local site Torontoist targeting mayoral candidate Rob Ford: Underneath Ford’s mugshot stamped with the words, “arrested and jailed” in bright red, the ad asks, “Is this the kind of judgment we’re looking for in a Mayor?” and invites viewers to click on [...]
Torontoist Electograph: Waiting For the End of the World
With just over a month until election day, online magazine Torontoist has updated their Mayoral Electrograph to reflect Ford’s frontrunner status: George Smitherman Electograph Score: 5/10 (-1) Is it hubris that has brought George so low? The one-time pack leader has suffered not only from Ford’s surging popularity, but from a dramatic decline in his [...]
Torontoist: Make Your Own Rob Ford Funny
In the spirit of the TTC Sleeper, the good folks at Torontoist have offered the chance to create a new meme – mayoral candidate Rob Ford fighting with his umbrella: “On the sidelines, a windswept-Ford’s umbrella has just turned inside out and, with his right leg half-raised and a “Rob Ford For Mayor” button on [...]
Torontoist: How We Make Decisions, Not Just What’s Decided, Is An Environmental Issue Too
Toronto Environmental Alliance Executive Director Franz Hartmann pens a guest editorial on Torontoist where he cautions those supporting changes to the TTC: “As voters consider which mayoral candidate has the best environmental platform, it’s important to look beyond what they say about specific environmental issues like transit, climate change, smog, and waste management. We also [...]
Torontoist Mayoral Electograph: Into The Home Stretch
The folks at Torontoist have released their latest Electograph, which plots the chances of each of the leading mayoral candidates: Joe Pantalone Electograph Score: 2.5/10 (-.5) Poor Joe Pantalone—even with a high profile if unsurprising endorsement from NDP leader Jack Layton, he can’t seem to get ahead. In spite of being a seasoned city councillor [...]
Torontoist: This Ain’t The Village
Local hub Torontoist catches up with Ward 5 candidate Justin Di Ciano about his “vision” for Ward 5 and where it’s origins may be from: “This past weekend, Di Ciano moved into a fancy new campaign headquarters on the ground floor of the condo on the southwest corner of Bloor Street West and Islington Avenue, [...]
Rob Ford Sends Cease-And-Desist to “Satirical” Blogger
Lawyers representing the Ford campaign sent a cease-and-desist letter to a blogger whose website poked fun at the mayoral candidate by posting Ford’s “thoughts” in an imaginary journal: “Mr. Ford has been the Councillor representing Ward 2 in North Etobicoke since 2000,” says the letter, “and he is one of the hardest working councillors in [...]
Torontoist: Where Is the Environment?
Torontoist posts a guest column from Franz Hartmann, the Executive Director of the Toronto Environmental Alliance, who questions why environmental issues do not hold more prominence in the current mayoral contest: “For a city that prides itself on being an environmental leader, this is—at best—a peculiar situation. Why is it that none of the front-running [...]
BlogTO: Toronto Through The Eyes Of Sarah Thomson
Like George Smitherman and Rocco Rossi before her, mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson gets the profile treatment from local site BlogTO: It’s been more than six months since you’ve entered this race and so far no poll has put you above third place. Does that bother you? No, not at all. We’ve spent no money on [...]
Torontoist: Red Cards For Toronto’s Mayoral Candidates
Online magazine Torontoist reports on the performances of the various mayoral candidates who had an opportunity to speak at local World Cup festivities over the weekend: “First up was a mumbling Joe Pantalone, whose near-inaudible message to the crowd can be best summarized as: Toronto is fantastic, soccer is fantastic, and err…Toronto is fantastic! Pantalone’s [...]
Torontoist Mayoral Electograph: Another One Bites the Dust
In the latest instalment of their Electograph, the folks at Torontoist take a look what the mayoral race looks like in a post-Mammoliti world: Rob Ford Electograph Score: 6/10 (+1) “The key Ford brand attributes of thrift and outrage are giving his campaign big momentum, especially in the suburbs where bike lanes and green roofs [...]
Torontoist: A Look Back, At Advance Mayoral Polls Past
With assistance from the Environics archives, Online magazine Torontoist examines the advance polls from previous mayoral contests: “The 2006 and 2000 races, which involved strong incumbents, contrast sharply with the other two, which were competitive throughout. In both the 1997 race to determine the first “megacity” mayor, and the 2003 race to replace Mel Lastman, [...]
Torontoist: Pantalone Unveils His Plan To Keep Doing What We’re Doing
After mayoral candidate Joe Pantalone addressed the Toronto Board of Trade earlier this week to discuss his vision for Toronto, online magazine Torontoist isn’t overly impressed: “While Pantalone calls himself a proud progressive candidate, the claim’s at odds with his careful defence of the status quo. We need change, he claims—just not too much and [...]
