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The race for mayor is on - at least in this political junkie's mind

Hard-core political junkies might be excused for showing a slight tremor in their hands, a hungry look in their hollow eyes, as they go about their holiday shopping this year.

After all, until 2006...

The city has done what it can, time for the feds to move in

We're all looking for saviours under these grey and tumultuous December skies. Stephen Harper has, for the moment at least, demurred; Barack Obama is still waiting to be a saviour, and anyway, he's...

Coalition challenges: infrastructure spending needs to be a priority

What a disappointment. Just days after most of us learned what the word "prorogue" meant, Governor General Michaelle Jean used it in a sentence to give Stephen Harper's Conservative...

All deals should be as sweet as this one

Did David Miller sell us all out to Big Grocery this week?

That's certainly one way of looking at it.

At the beginning of the week, Toronto retailers were looking down the barrel of a bylaw...

Memo to Miller: Council dysfunctional as ever

A memo went out last week from the mayor's office. It hit the desks of about half of council - without exception, that half that generally finds itself sympathetic to the mayor's positions, and votes...

In a democracy, sometimes the clock has the final say

If David Miller runs on any one thing for his third term as Mayor of Toronto, it probably won't be his ability to run a crisp executive committee meeting.

It's a shame, because he's really shown a...

War clouds gather over in-store packaging policy

It has been too long, really, since Toronto council and the mayor went to public opinion war with the private sector. Oh, for the days that David Miller faced down the Toronto Real Estate Board and...

Together they fall, divided they fall

On Thursday at the noon hour, Mayor David Miller and budget chief Shelley Carroll took an hour away from Toronto Council to talk about Toronto's capital budget.

At $1.6 billion, it's the junior...

The winds of change are more like a strong breeze

In some respects, the federal election passed over Toronto like a strong breeze; it ruffled some hair, blew down some laundry and beach umbrellas here and there, but fundamentally left Toronto...

Mayor will have to play nice with newly elected government

It's hard to say how much of a factor our silver-locked mayor really is in federal elections. Does anybody really base their vote on what Mayor David Miller thinks about handguns, public transit or...

Who's politicizing who?

No doubt about it: the appointment of Joe Pennachetti as city manager is a politicizing event.

Whether that event is about the mayor politicizing the city manager's office, or the city manager's...

We haven't come nearly as far as we thought we had

Most casual observers could be forgiven for thinking that Toronto City Council does not have a gender-equity problem.

After all, some of the most powerful and influential forces on council are...

What are Toronto Liberals to do?

It's off to the polls again. As they must be saying in the prime minister's office (but nowhere else in the country I can think of): Whee!

It's safe to say that almost nobody in this country is...

Making highrise neighbourhoods productive hubs great news for Toronto

How fitting. Just days after the displaced tenants of 2 Secord Ave. were finally allowed back into their highrise homes in East York after an electrical fire rendered their building temporarily...

Scramble intersection feels like a victory lap

I'll admit, I was skeptical at first. But in the end, kudos must go to Toronto's pedestrian-friendly traffic planners.

It turns out that crossing Dundas and Yonge streets on the diagonal...

Should Miller have come home sooner? Nah

I was halfway through my summer vacation, en route from one cottage to another retreat, when the tanks at Sunrise Propane went off in Downsview early Aug. 10.

Normally, I would not remark on my...

Mayor's moves not much of a conspiracy

Whether it's the changing of the sheets or a changing of the guard, it doesn't take much to suggest vast conspiracy at Toronto City Hall. Witness the departure of Shirley Hoy, Toronto's long-serving...

Do federal announcements mean an election on the horizon?

There must be a federal election coming. High-level government cabinet ministers are coming to Ontario, re-announcing money for infrastructure that have, in various forms, been announced many times...

Tale of two city developments - and the difference location makes

What is it about a job in Toronto that makes it good? If recent decisions out of city hall are indication, it's a more complicated question than just holding a ruler to salaries and benefits will...

Esthetics on St. Clair appear to have trumped safety

Development division. "At the posted road speed or faster it would not be possible to do safely. The potential to strike a pole with an apparatus is high; to strike a pole with a mirror is...