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  Advice for Toronto mayoral candidates: keep it moving

  

  Posted by Jocelyne Dignard-Saleh at 9:33 pm on February 15, 2010
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  In a city the size of Toronto, the most important issue for the mayoral candidates must be transportation.

  Not many people living here are happy with the transportation situation. The drivers are frustrated over downtown gridlock, TTC patrons over bad service, cyclists over what they perceive to be not enough routes. Everyone is weighing in on the answers, or the lack of. Bloggers are hopping on the subject.

  Several solutions have been bandied about, including one recently encouraged with the participation of city council: car sharing.

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• News

  Chris Tindal enters race for Ward 27 against two trans women

  

  Posted by Meri Perra at 11:43 am on January 27, 2010
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  The race to replace Kyle Rae in Ward 27 is getting packed and interesting, with the potential that an out trans person could make it to city council for the first time ever in Canada.

  Enza Anderson, whose campaign is getting significant media attention, and Susan Gapka, a well-known activist within the queer community, are registered candidates within the ward. They are also two out trans women.

  Also in the race is fresh-faced former Green party candidate Chris Tindal. Ever respectful, Tindal understands the significance of a win for Anderson or Gapka.

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• News

  Carroll will not run for mayor, plans to focus on budget

  

  Posted by NewsFIX Staff at 11:58 pm on January 12, 2010
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  The progressive side of council lost another mayoral candidate yesterday after Shelley Carroll announced she would not run for the top job.

  David Miller’s budget chief told reporters Tuesday that she couldn’t run for mayor in good conscience while a critical budget needed attending to. Instead, Carroll announced her intention to defend her Don Valley East council seat in this year’s municipal election and continue to work to settle the city’s finances.

  Carroll’s decision not to run makes it increasingly likely that the city’s next mayor will be a council outsider.

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• Superfeed

  Proposals to loosen restrictions on street food

  

  Posted by Superfeed Editor at 3:58 am on November 13, 2009
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  From The Globe and Mail – Toronto RSS feed

  Kathy Bonivento didn’t last two months hawking souvlaki at Nathan Phillips Square.

  Losing money hand over fist, and “lost in a sea of hot dog vendors,” she shut down the cart she’d spent her life savings on in late June, little more than a month after she began.

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• Superfeed

  Councillor wants to shut down sex spas

  

  Posted by Superfeed Editor at 10:37 am on October 25, 2009
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  From Toronto Sun – Toronto & GTA

  A city councillor says there are 3,000 illegal massage parlours serving sex day and night in Toronto and he wants them out.

  Giorgio Mammoliti claims crime syndicates are involved in smuggling girls into Canada, obtaining club space, paying for advertising and offering protection.

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• News

  Photo Gallery: Walking tall to stop violence against women

  

  Posted by L.C. Willis at 3:46 pm on October 1, 2009
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  Brothers, husbands and fathers banded together to raise $65,000 during a charity walk to end violence against women.

  The men, decked out in business suits and high-heeled shoes, walked through downtown for the first Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event held in Toronto. The event is part of the White Ribbon Campaign’s efforts to end gender-based violence. Toronto is one of 161 cities that have participated in Walk a Mile events so far this year.

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• Superfeed

  Toronto council speaker admits she posed as caller to radio show

  

  Posted by Superfeed Editor at 2:18 pm on September 30, 2009
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  From The Globe and Mail – Toronto RSS feed

  Toronto council speaker Sandra Bussin is creating a minor radio-wave tempest after comments she made about conservative politician John Tory on his radio show last Friday.

  Ms. Bussin phoned the show Friday afternoon to defend Mayor David Miller, who had just announced his intention not to run for a third term in office.

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• Superfeed

  Toronto mayor won’t seek re-election: sources

  

  Posted by Superfeed Editor at 9:42 am on September 25, 2009
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  From The Globe and Mail – Toronto RSS feed

  Toronto Mayor David Miller “is not going to seek re-election,” sources confirmed Friday.

  Mr. Miller has scheduled a 10 a.m. ET press conference to make the announcement. He still has 15 months remaining in his term before the November, 2010 election.

  Mr. Miller has always said he would run for a third term as mayor next year but his standing has plummeted in the polls since this summer’s unpopular city worker’s strike.

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• Arts

  TIFF: Survival of the fastest during the Toronto Zombie Walk

  

  Posted by L.C. Willis at 10:00 am on September 14, 2009
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  The streets of downtown Toronto were laden with blood on Saturday – or, at least, various concoctions of fake blood and faux rotting flesh.

  The Toronto Zombie Walk: Special Director’s Cut Edition assembled a couple hundred undead aficionados to lurch and shuffle their way from Alexandra Park to Yonge Dundas Square for a special presentation and free outdoor screening of Night of the Living Dead. The celebration was part of the Toronto International Film Festival’s recognition of legendary director George A. Romero. Romero, now officially a Canadian citizen, presented his newest film, George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead, as part of TIFF’s Midnight Madness program.

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• Superfeed

  Council approves Union Station revitalization

  

  Posted by Superfeed Editor at 10:20 pm on August 5, 2009
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  From Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape

  Today Council approved plans to make the City the head lessee of all current and future retail spaces in Union Station, including spaces in a new lower concourse. With funding from the federal and provincial governments already secured, the Council’s approval was the “last major milestone” needed for the $640 million project, which is set to begin in 2010 and is scheduled to be finished by 2015.

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• Superfeed

  IT’S OVER

  

  Posted by Superfeed Editor at 7:23 pm on July 27, 2009
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  From MyTownCrier.ca – Strike2009

  The city and CUPE locals 416 and 79 reached a tentative settlement today to end the 36-day strike, Mayor David Miller announced this afternoon.

  “Without question this has been a difficult period for everyone,” Miller said at a 3:30 p.m. press conference.

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• Superfeed

  Toronto strike won’t stop council meeting

  

  Posted by Superfeed Editor at 4:01 pm on July 22, 2009
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  From CBC | Toronto News

  The business of running the City of Toronto will go ahead, despite the 31-day strike by municipal workers.

  Mayor David Miller said Wednesday that a special meeting of city council will be held Aug. 5 and 6 “to consider truly urgent business.”

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• Superfeed

  Unions present counter-offer to city

  

  Posted by Superfeed Editor at 10:32 pm on July 11, 2009
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  From CityNews: Top Stories

  It’s day 20 of the civic workers’ strike and according to the unions, the ball is in the City’s court.

  The Canadian Union of Public Employees has given the City of Toronto its counter-offer, after rejecting the proposal put forth by Mayor David Miller on Friday.

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• Superfeed

  McGuinty wants Toronto to settle strike on its own

  

  Posted by Superfeed Editor at 10:13 pm on July 6, 2009
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  From The Globe and Mail – Toronto RSS feed
  Karen Howlett and Jennifer Lewington

  Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says the province will not intervene in Toronto’s strike by municipal workers as long as residents are coping with the inconvenience, the rotting garbage does not pose a health risk and both sides in the 16-day-old dispute keep talking.

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• Superfeed

  CITY HALL: Opposition councillors want Mayor to hold council meetings

  

  Posted by Superfeed Editor at 10:07 pm on July 6, 2009
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  From insidetoronto.com – News Feed

  Toronto Council chambers sat empty Monday because of the municipal workers strike – but a group of opposition councillors wants Mayor David Miller to recall the July council meeting with or without Toronto’s unionized workers to help make it run.

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