Archive / 70 entries
2019
Toronto should ignore Doug Ford’s friendly new tone and seek payback ↗
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Why I’ll miss Toronto’s old CLRV streetcars ↗
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The City Hall Watcher interview with Mayor John Tory ↗
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City Hall Watcher #49: The decade ends with a Toronto Council meeting ↗ Subscribers
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Here’s why you’re about to pay a lot more for garbage collection ↗
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City Hall Watcher #48: Oh no, all the reports came out at once ↗ Subscribers
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The mathematical truth about Toronto property taxes: raising them is the best option ↗
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City Hall Watcher #47: A new hope for ranked ballots ↗ Subscribers
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E-scooters are potentially dangerous and annoying, but Toronto needs them anyway ↗
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City Hall Watcher #46: poverty, housing and governance - your November Council preview ↗ Subscribers
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Toronto council has a chance to move more people out of homeless shelters and into homes ↗
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City Hall Watcher #45: That's a garbage budget ↗ Subscribers
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Give downtown Yonge St. to pedestrians ↗
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City Hall Watcher #44: So long, Jimmy K ↗ Subscribers
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TTC fair discount program offers proof that cheaper transit can transform lives ↗
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City Hall Watcher #43: Pumpkin spice lobbying ↗ Subscribers
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Doug Ford has a long history failing to find government waste ↗
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How Toronto can improve transit and road safety in days rather than years ↗
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City Hall Watcher #42: The new kings of Kensington ↗ Subscribers
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Under the circumstances, Toronto’s new transit deal is good — but the circumstances suck ↗
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City Hall Watcher #41: An election night distraction ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #40: Toronto transit swap meet ↗
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Hey, where’s all the federal election talk about transit and housing? ↗
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City Hall Watcher #39: A Matador, climate change & lots of e-scooters ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #38: Introducing the Council Power Rankings ↗ Subscribers
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Toronto city hall still throwing up roadblocks to road safety ↗
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City Hall Watcher #37: Website diverted, expect delays ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #36: What cities want from the federal election ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #35: The e-scooter war begins ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #34: Back to school, back to Lobbyist Watch ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #33: Let the pre-election funding announcements begin ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #32: The revenge of the return of Doug Ford's city budget cuts ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #31: What happens when Toronto has too much parking? ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #30: Hot Lobbyist Watch summer ↗
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City Hall Watcher #29: Ontario Line - the good, the bad and the risky ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #28: The Council votes that mattered most ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #27: Cramming in a Council meeting before summer break ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #26: A photo radar finish ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #25: What City Hall lobbyists were doing in June ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #24: 1,500 page Sidewalk Toronto proposal tops our summer reading list ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #23: We The North ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #22: Ford is what happens when you're busy making other plans ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #21: Lobbyists get their kicks on Bill 66 ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #20: Fact-checking Ford, fiscally ↗
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City Hall Watcher #19: The most scathing report ever? ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #18: Maybe we ain't that Yonge anymore ↗ Subscribers
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Facing provincial cuts, fighting back might be Toronto's best and only option ↗
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City Hall Watcher #17: Who was lobbying who in April? ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #16: Pie charts get thrown in public health battle ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #15: Walkerton this way ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #14: The Ontari-ari-ari-o Line ↗ Subscribers
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For Toronto: park booze? Yes. Affordable housing? Uh, maybe later ↗
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City Hall Watcher #13: The wheels on the omnibus go round and round ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #12: The Relief Line's magical mystery tech ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #11: At Empire Club, John Tory strikes back ↗ Subscribers
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Toronto needs 1 thing in the federal budget — money, and lots of it ↗
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City Hall Watcher #10: Toronto employment is booming, except where it isn't ↗
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City Hall Watcher #9: Council approves a kinda sorta maybe balanced budget ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #8: Night gathers, and so my Lobbyist Watch begins ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #7: the triumphant return of the City Council Scorecard ↗ Subscribers
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Toronto city hall struggling with snow — and 8 years of austerity ↗
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City Hall Watcher #6: Where the Sidewalk ends? ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #5: Toronto's housing crisis — in charts ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #4: The Toronto City Council post-game show ↗ Subscribers
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City Hall Watcher #3: This city's budget is made of mystery meat ↗
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City Hall Watcher #2: TTC looks to raise fares, then figure out the rest later ↗
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How Doug Ford's entry into the Scarborough subway debate is creating more uncertainty for TTC riders ↗
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City Hall Watcher #1: Richmond & Adelaide are bike lane superstars ↗
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Coming soon: City Hall Watcher by Matt Elliott ↗
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Why Doug Ford's subway 'upload' could be Toronto's most contentious city hall story of 2019 ↗
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