Oh Jesus. John Tory leads the pack of undeclared candidates for mayor of Toronto by a wide margin, according to a new poll by Angus Reid Strategies. Of decided voters, 46 per cent said they would vote for Mr. Tory, former leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, who came a close second to David Miller in the 2003 mayoral race. Ontario Deputy Premier and Infrastructure Minister George...
Smitherman or Tory?! These are my choices for Mayor of Toronto?! Peh! The Bum Fight has already commenced with a couple of rounds on Tory's talk show and the Don King of Canadian politics has kicked off his own negativity spin campaign on his blog today with a cornucopia of anti-Smitherman quotes ripped from the headlines. Just the fact that this is going to be an ugly, ugly race turns me off even...
Ontario's Deputy Premier will be making a run for the Toronto mayoralty : After months of speculation, George Smitherman is making the move to municipal politics. Ontario's deputy premier and energy minister confirmed in an interview Sunday that he is leaving Dalton McGuinty's cabinet to run for Toronto's mayoralty in November 2010. So far, it sounds like John Tory and Glen Murray will be his biggest...
Penguins -Dave Molinari's recap from last night's game . The Penguins finished October as one of five teams in NHL history to rack up 12 win in October. -The Star Tribune's recap . The WIld has won back to back games for the first time this season. -The Pioneer Press' recap . It was Nicklas Backstrom's ( above, with Sidney Crosby ) night. -The Associated Press' recap . The WIld is 3-0 against the...
Photo: untitled by Patti McCabe , member of the blogTO Flickr pool . What's happening in the GTA (and sometimes beyond): Are boys-only classes in public elementary schools a good idea? Is an entire boys-only public school in Toronto a good idea? The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) is mulling over these ideas , in hopes of boosting students' skills and lowering dropout rates. If my brief experiences...
That was the subject line on an email I just got from my friend Jeff this morning. He doesn't have a blog of his own and he's always sending me stuff to post that he's interested in. Right now he's pretty stoked about Glen Murray, former mayor of winnipeg and potential candidate for the future Toronto Mayoral race. I'd never heard of him before but I read his wikibio and he looks to be someone worth...
A Star investigation has accused Toronto Police of "dipping into" a public fund meant to compensate civilian victims of crime. According to the newspaper, over four hundred Ontario police officers and prison guards, including 133 Toronto cops, have received a total of $1.5 million from the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board since 2005. Surely officers injured in the course of law-enforcement...
Former mayor Glen Murray considers running for mayor again. It’s the details — what he’s the former mayor of, and what he would like to be the mayor of now — that make the story interesting. And yet somehow highly unsurprising.
Adam Vaughan photo by fermata.daily from the Torontoist Flickr Pool ; Glen Murray, Shelley Carroll, and Adam Giambrone photos via Facebook. Politics stops for no man, and no retirement. Hot on the heels of David Miller's announcement that he will not seek a third term in office —before he had even left the room, in fact—began the speculation about who would campaign to replace him. George...
Ok, so the Phil Kessel-to-San Jose rumors are flying about now thanks to the Sharks’ cap-clearing moves last week. However, a simple look at numbers shows that a trade between the two teams is pretty much impossible without a third party getting involved. Please recall that the trading of Christian Ehrhoff and Brad Lukowich to the Vancouver Canucks opened up about $4 million of cap space. That’s...
CJOB radio host Geoff Currier did more damage Tuesday to the prospects of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights than the proverbial bull in a china shop. After years of ignoring the scam being perpetrated by Gail Asper on Manitoba taxpayers, CJOB finally tiptoed into the debate over the huge, growing, and unrestricted cost overruns for her daddy's legacy project. And Currier, inadvertently, opened with...
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