March 28, 2012 Mayor Rob Ford is not backing down from a plan to run a slate to sink his opponents in the next election, but he has retracted a public plea for interested candidates to call his City Hall office. Mr. Ford issued a statement Tuesday evening in response to a complaint [...]
March 27, 2012 A city councillor’s complaint that Mayor Rob Ford shouldn’t be telling potential candidates for council to call his office has been dismissed as sour grapes. Ford, as he has his entire council career, is publicly encouraging like-minded people to call him if they’re interested in running for council in November, [...]
March 27, 2012 Rookie Councillor Josh Matlow is throwing a flag on Mayor Rob Ford’s play to recruit a slate of 2014 election candidates through his taxpayer-funded office. Ford took to the radio airwaves Sunday for his weekly NEWSTALK 1010 show and invited those interested in joining a pro-Ford slate to run against [...]
March 26, 2012 The road to a BIA on Bayview is being travelled with baby steps. Talk of a business improvement area along the Leaside stretch of Bayview Avenue has been talked about for years with nothing to show for the talk, but Don Valley West Councillor John Parker said they are currently [...]
March 26, 2012 Toronto city councillors have voted 24-19 in favour of a motion for building light-rail transit on Sheppard Avenue East. The vote effectively ends Mayor Rob Ford’s push for extending a subway line across Sheppard Avenue. Asked what his message was, Ford didn’t mince his words. […]
March 22, 2012 Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has lost another key vote in his bid for subways, with council voting 24-19 in favour of light-rail transit along Sheppard Avenue East. Immediately after the Thursday vote at city hall, Ford said he was already looking forward to the 2014 municipal election. “We came [...]
March 22, 2012 If citizens tuned in Wednesday to get clarity and a decision on Toronto’s most important transit decision in more than a decade, they left befuddled. So often did councillors and speakers misinform and give patently false information in the “LRT versus Subway” showdown that one had to conclude the strategy [...]
March 22,2012 If you can’t beat ‘em, stall ‘em. That appears to have been the mayor’s strategy Wednesday night when, moments before he was expected to lose another crucial vote on transit, his council allies successfully ground proceedings to a halt. Councillors were poised to approve a surface LRT for Sheppard Ave., [...]
March 22, 2012 The special council meeting to determine the future of transit on Sheppard Avenue East will resume, Thursday. Live streaming of council will begin at 9:30 a.m. After almost 12 hours of debate, Mayor Rob Ford abruptly ended the debate before a vote Wednesday night. Councillors are debating whether to [...]
March 21, 2012 On the verge of apparently losing a vote to build a subway along Sheppard, Mayor Rob Ford and his supporters opted for a filibuster Wednesday night to suspend the debate on whether to build subway or light rail along Sheppard Avenue. The move came toward the end of the special [...]
