Kate Holloway and Dan Fox for Toronto City Council; more endorsers for Danielle Takacs
A couple of items for you today. I don’t live in Toronto, so you might be wondering why I would endorse folks who are running for Toronto City Council. Quite…
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Toronto Is More Than The Core
Marcus McGee makes a nice attempt at an ode to Toronto as opposed to the idea of Ford Nation: “Toronto isn’t Rob Ford. Toronto is more than that”. Unfortunately, I…
Supervised Injection In Toronto: Why The Discussion Has Screeched To A Halt
By Joe Fantauzzi @jjfantauzzi Drug use is a multifaceted issue in urban life. Addiction can take an enormous toll on individuals and can leave the municipalities in which those people…
Temporary Foreign Workers: What Canada Must Do To Protect A Vulnerable Labour Class
By Joe Fantauzzi @jjfantauzziKey Findings and Recommendations:– Between 2003 and 2012, the number of temporary foreign workers admitted to Canada jumped from 102,932 to 213,573 — a difference of 107.5%.–…
Ontario: A leading jurisdiction for intense, coercive neoliberalism
By Joe Fantauzzi@jjfantauzzi Global capitalism has liberalized incrementally since the end of the Second World War. As the Keynesian welfare state fell out of favour in the late 1970s amid…
The Toronto G20 Summit: A State of Exception
By Joe Fantauzzi@jjfantauzziBetween June 26 and 27, 2010, thousands of demonstrators descended on Toronto, Ontario to protest while the leaders of the world’s 20 largest economies met behind a protective…
Locating Canada’s State Multiculturalism As A Racist Doctrine
By Joe Fantauzzi@jjfantauzziCanada is a multicultural nation. More than four decades of policy, legislation and celebration have engraved this country’s pluralism into its national character. The ethnic diversity of this…
The only progressive in the TO Mayor race is Olivia Chow
Municipal politics are an interesting political arena. You have much more of a political ideological mix here, which you don’t necessarily have for the federal or provincial arenas. So it…
No Federal Childcare Program: An Exercise In Strengthening Hegemony
Canada, a nation among the wealthiest in the world, cannot meet its daycare needs. The problem has grown to crisis proportions in the country’s largest cities. In Toronto there are…
Mayor Rob Ford The Time Traveller
Rob Ford spoke to the media twice today, twice! The first time he admitted that yes, he had in fact smoked crack in the past but he doesn’t really remember…
Mayor Rob Ford The Time Traveller
Rob Ford spoke to the media twice today, twice! The first time he admitted that yes, he had in fact smoked crack in the past but he doesn’t really remember…
Rob Ford’s Apology and Promise to Continue is Unacceptable
Mayor Rob Ford has apologized sincerely for something , he won’t say what. He then spends part of the rest of his Sunday radio show attacking the media and his…
Rob Ford’s Apology and Promise to Continue is Unacceptable
Mayor Rob Ford has apologized sincerely for something , he won’t say what. He then spends part of the rest of his Sunday radio show attacking the media and his…
In Defense of Rob @TOMayorFord
Yes you read the headline correct, In defense of Rob Ford. In a few short hours Rob and brother Doug will be on the air the weekly clown show on…
Liberty: Revealing J.S. Mill As A Visionary And J.J Rousseau As A Totalitarian
By Joe Fantauzzi @jjfantauzzi At the core of many modern democracies is the concept of freedom. Variations of the word “free” appear 27 times in the text of Canada’s Charter…
In Brampton, Few Recorded Development Votes After Developers Contribute To Political War Chests
By Joe Fantauzzi@jjfantauzzi Key Findings: – The development industry is clearly engaged in the political process at Brampton City Hall. – 233 development companies and development-affiliated individuals were publicly disclosed…
BREAKING NEWS – Mayor Ford Does Something Stupid
Business as usual. Everything is fine. Anything else?
Rob Ford’s nine lives will get him to the next election
By all accounts Rob Ford should not have any public support. He has spent the last fourteen years showing contempt for basic social and legal norms. He was charged with…
1, 2, 3, 4, @TOMayorFord Declares a Twitter War
One, Two, Three, Four, I Declare a Twitter War was the original title for this article, but as of last night I figure out who is behind the major of…
Who’s a Worse Mayor than Rob Ford???
To quote Mel Lastman NNOOOOBODY So here’s Rob Ford’s Transit plan Streetcars are not Rapid Transit LRT’s are not Rapid Transit We need SUBWAYS SUBWAYS SUBWAYS Ok, so how are…