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Current News Updates
Community Update for November 28, 2014
Hodgson Artificial Ice Rink Update: It's New, Improved and Ready [...]
Inside Toronto: St. Paul’s councillor Josh Matlow looks forward to another busy four-year term
November 27, 2014
Inside Toronto
Justin Skinner
While the new makeup of council under mayor-elect Mayor John Tory has its work cut out for it on city-wide issues, St. Paul’s councillor Josh Matlow will also have a full plate when it comes to issues within his own ward.
One of his top priorities will be to boost transit options in the city to ease congestion on the Yonge subway line, as riders in his ward often have to wait two or three trains just to find a subway that is not packed to the brim during rush hours.
“I’ll be continuing my advocacy for relieving the Yonge subway line overcrowding in every way,” he said, adding he does not see the much-ballyhooed Downtown Relief Line proposal and Tory’s SmartTrack plan as an either/or proposition.
“We need both a downtown relief line and electrified rail moving forward.”
Community Update for November 10, 2014
Dear residents, Election Day seems like much longer than [...]
Global Toronto: Councillor Wants City to Take On Illegally Parked Cars
October 31, 2014
TORONTO – A midtown Toronto city councillor is hoping the city will take on illegally parked cars during the upcoming city council session.
Councillor Josh Matlow (Ward 22) tweeted a photo Thursday of a Tim Hortons delivery truck parked in a curb lane near the intersection of Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue during rush hour.
“Every single day here at Yonge and St. Clair and around the city we see, in these cases, delivery trucks, or somebody just running in for coffee, putting their blinkers on and clogging up an entire lane in the middle of rush hour,” Matlow said during an interview Friday. “That’s got to stop.”
Inside Toronto: ‘Ward 22: Easy win for Josh Matlow
October 27, 2014
Voters in Ward 22 (St. Paul’s) have returned incumbent councillor Josh Matlow to council as their local representative.
Matlow easily outpaced a slate of candidates that included challengers Sarfraz Khan, Bob Murphy and James O’Shaughnessy.
The popular councillor, first elected in 2010 after serving as the local public school trustee, tweeted “I love you Ward 22. And congratulations Mayor-Elect Tory! It’s a new day in Toronto.”
The returning councillor was confident going into the election, but still spent eight to 10 hours a day canvassing in the days leading up to the election.
Toronto Star: Josh Matlow breezes to victory in Ward 22, St. Paul’s
October 27 2014
It was a walk in Ward 22 St. Paul’s for Josh Matlow.
Minutes after the polls closed, the incumbent city councillor was, as his campaign manager crowed to a cheering crowd at a St. Clair Ave. sports bar, “sitting comfortably with 86 per cent of the vote.”
“Rob Ford may go down as the most divisive mayor Toronto has ever had but he brought council together to fill the vacuum,” Matlow told his supporters.
In an interview with the Star, he added, “Toronto has rejected the politics of division and dishonest rhetoric and has chosen a more thoughtful new day that will focus on the city’s priorities.”
