About

About this archive

Matt Elliott started writing about Toronto City Hall in 2011, on a blog he called Ford For Toronto. He quickly regretted the name.

From 2012 to 2018 he was the City Hall columnist for Metro News in Toronto. His columns ran in print every Monday or Tuesday, and sometimes more often. He also wrote blog posts for MetroNews.ca. When Metro shut down its website, those columns went offline. This site keeps them available.

Since 2019 he has been a contributing columnist for the Toronto Star. Today Matt also writes City Hall Watcher, a weekly newsletter about Toronto City Council.

How the archive works

Every piece Matt has published is listed here with its date and publication. Star columns, newsletter issues and Ford For Toronto posts link to the original. When an original disappears, the link switches to an archived copy, and the full text can be restored here so the work stays readable. Newsletter issues are always links only.

The Metro columns were recovered from Matt's own files and from the Internet Archive. Every column links to the original URL and an archived copy.