I greatly appreciate the efforts of many of Toronto’s better writers and activists to push back against the ghastly effort to recast Rob Ford as some kind of civic champion. In particular, I recommend this by Richard Feren, the author of Ford’s most infamous parody account, Rob Frod, and this
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Autonomy For All: A Forgotten Rob Ford: The Machine Maker
I greatly appreciate the efforts of many of Toronto’s better writers and activists to push back against the ghastly effort to recast Rob Ford as some kind of civic champion. In particular, I recommend this by Richard Feren, the author of Ford’s m…
Continue readingAutonomy For All: A Forgotten Rob Ford: The Machine Maker
I greatly appreciate the efforts of many of Toronto’s better writers and activists to push back against the ghastly effort to recast Rob Ford as some kind of civic champion. In particular, I recommend this by Richard Feren, the author of Ford’s m…
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Global Warming is Really Just a Risk Mitigation Exercise
There are four broad outcomes depending on whether we act to mitigate climate change, and whether it is as bad (or worse than) what the models predict in terms of temperature increase by 2100 and the associated likely impacts of a +4-8C world environme…
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Global Warming is Really Just a Risk Mitigation Exercise
There are four broad outcomes depending on whether we act to mitigate climate change, and whether it is as bad (or worse than) what the models predict in terms of temperature increase by 2100 and the associated likely impacts of a +4-8C world environment: We do nothing. Global warming is
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Global Warming is Really Just a Risk Mitigation Exercise
There are four broad outcomes depending on whether we act to mitigate climate change, and whether it is as bad (or worse than) what the models predict in terms of temperature increase by 2100 and the associated likely impacts of a +4-8C world environment: We do nothing. Global warming is
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Ranked Balloting (Toronto) Primer: This Needs to Happen
In 2013, City Council voted 25-16 in favour of a motion that (among other things) asked the province to implement legislation authorizing ranked balloting (or “instant runoff voting” – IRV) for municipal elections in Toronto. Since then, the re-elected Liberals included a specific promise to implement such legislation for all
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Ranked Balloting (Toronto) Primer: This Needs to Happen
In 2013, City Council voted 25-16 in favour of a motion that (among other things) asked the province to implement legislation authorizing ranked balloting (or “instant runoff voting” – IRV) for municipal elections in Toronto. Since then, the re-e…
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Ranked Balloting (Toronto) Primer: This Needs to Happen
In 2013, City Council voted 25-16 in favour of a motion that (among other things) asked the province to implement legislation authorizing ranked balloting (or “instant runoff voting” – IRV) for municipal elections in Toronto. Since then, the re-elected Liberals included a specific promise to implement such legislation for all
Continue readingAutonomy For All: The Ford Family Political Machine
The recent switch of Doug for Rob in the Mayor’s race, and Rob for Michael in the Ward 2 race is in a sense shocking, but not surprising. Speculation about this possibility had existed for some time. I see outraged talk about “feudalism” and family dynasties. Good. It’s been apparent
Continue readingAutonomy For All: The Ford Family Political Machine
The recent switch of Doug for Rob in the Mayor’s race, and Rob for Michael in the Ward 2 race is in a sense shocking, but not surprising. Speculation about this possibility had existed for some time. I see outraged talk about “feudalism” and family dynasties. Good. It’s been apparent
Continue readingAutonomy For All: The Ford Family Political Machine
The recent switch of Doug for Rob in the Mayor’s race, and Rob for Michael in the Ward 2 race is in a sense shocking, but not surprising. Speculation about this possibility had existed for some time. I see outraged talk about “feudalism” and fami…
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Sadly, Tying Property Taxes To Inflation Is Progress
Earlier in the Mayoral campaign, with the unsurprising exception of Ford, the other four (then) “major” candidates (Chow, Stintz, Tory, Soknacki) solidified their positions on property taxes around a general consensus that such taxes should match inflation. A number of people whose views I respect have written some thoughtful pieces
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Sadly, Tying Property Taxes To Inflation Is Progress
Earlier in the Mayoral campaign, with the unsurprising exception of Ford, the other four (then) “major” candidates (Chow, Stintz, Tory, Soknacki) solidified their positions on property taxes around a general consensus that such taxes should match inflation. A number of people whose views I respect have written some thoughtful pieces
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Sadly, Tying Property Taxes To Inflation Is Progress
Earlier in the Mayoral campaign, with the unsurprising exception of Ford, the other four (then) “major” candidates (Chow, Stintz, Tory, Soknacki) solidified their positions on property taxes around a general consensus that such taxes should match infla…
Continue readingAutonomy For All: The "SmartTrack" Political Context
SmartTrack: Politician designed transit works surprisingly well…for politicians To recap: John Tory has centred his Mayoral campaign on a promise to build a heavy surface rail (he calls “surface subway”) electrified line 53KM long that mostly uses 2 …
Continue readingAutonomy For All: The "SmartTrack" Political Context
SmartTrack: Politician designed transit works surprisingly well…for politicians To recap: John Tory has centred his Mayoral campaign on a promise to build a heavy surface rail (he calls “surface subway”) electrified line 53KM long that mostly uses 2 existing GO-Transit non-electrified lines and builds 12KM of new track along Eglinton
Continue readingAutonomy For All: The "SmartTrack" Political Context
SmartTrack: Politician designed transit works surprisingly well…for politicians To recap: John Tory has centred his Mayoral campaign on a promise to build a heavy surface rail (he calls “surface subway”) electrified line 53KM long that mostly uses 2 existing GO-Transit non-electrified lines and builds 12KM of new track along Eglinton
Continue readingAutonomy For All: The Forest On Chow’s Bus Pledge Problems
How did we let our bus fleet get into this bad a shape and why is Chow the only “major” candidate proposing anything to fix it? The Toronto Star has today published a piece finding problems in the feasibility of Olivia Chow’s promise to improve bus ser…
Continue readingAutonomy For All: The Forest On Chow’s Bus Pledge Problems
How did we let our bus fleet get into this bad a shape and why is Chow the only “major” candidate proposing anything to fix it? The Toronto Star has today published a piece finding problems in the feasibility of Olivia Chow’s promise to improve bus service if elected Mayor.
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