City Councillor Josh Matlow, photographed on Dec. 11, 2010, is a former innovative school trustee and now a newly minted councillor who is big in the environmental community and a maverick when it comes to policy. - RICHARD LAUTENS/TORONTO STAR by Louise Brown Of course Josh Matlow is one to watch in 2011 — try [...]
by Richard Gilbert There’s little doubt Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is on a roll. As he said, he got everything he wanted at city council’s first regular meeting of this term on Dec. 16. The council voted 39-6, 40-5, and 28-17 to support three items of his election platform: repealing the personal vehicle tax, reducing [...]
The evening before our most recent city council meeting, I drove home up Avenue Rd. during rush hour. For many months, traffic has moved painfully slowly in midtown Toronto due to a major water main replacement project; consequently I had plenty of time to consider the current issues making the headlines at City Hall. I [...]
Dear friends and residents, Thank you for electing me as your new city councillor for Ward 22, St. Pauls. I deeply appreciate your confidence and I look forward to an ongoing dialogue with you on the many issues, challenges and opportunities we’ll face together. During the course of the election, I promised you that I’d [...]
{loadposition socialwidget} By DANIEL DALE, Toronto Star A week after Rob Ford finally won his long, lonely battle to eliminate free food for councillors, he arrived at his first lengthy council meeting bearing a surprise gift: free food for councillors. The taxpayer-funded edible gravy train may be kaput. On Thursday, it was unexpectedly replaced by [...]
By NATALIE ALCOBA, National Post Published on Tuesday November 9, 2010 It was like the first day of school for the crop of rookie Toronto councillors who were at City Hall checking out their new digs today. They got a tour, and they posed for photos. They were handed big three ring binders that read [...]
By DAVID NICKLE, InsideToronto Published on Tuesday November 9, 2010 It was the “first day of school” Tuesday for some of the 14 newly-elected city councillors getting ready to take office in December. Toronto City Hall opened its doors to the new councillors, who will soon join 30 incumbent councillors and Mayor Rob Ford in [...]
By JONATHAN JENKINS, Toronto Sun Published On Tuesday November 9, 2010 At least they know where the washrooms are now. A parade of earnest new council faces, fresh from an orientation session complete with protocol binders and a tour of the building, held court at City Hall Tuesday and vowed to work together. But despite [...]
CBC News Online 9 November 2010 Newly elected councillors took to Toronto City Hall Tuesday for an orientation session that many likened to the first day of school. […]
By CYNTHIA VUKETS, Toronto Star Published On Tue Nov 23 2010 Josh Matlow may be new to city council, but he’s no stranger to politics. He ran against former premier Ernie Eves in the Dufferin-Peel-Wellington-Grey by-election in 2002, at the age of 26. He was a school board trustee for seven years. He has no [...]
