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Mayoral Candidates Talk Planning, Community, and Sustainability

One of several barber shops on the Mount Dennis stretch of Weston Road; the area is one of thirteen priority neighbourhoods. Photo by Nick Kozak/Torontoist. Selected candidates for the mayoralty of Toronto are having a debate tonight—live at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, and streaming now on 680News. The debate is co-organized by [...]

Coming Tonight, a Mayoral Debate on Planning, Community, and Sustainability

The good folks at People Plan Toronto, in conjunction with the coalition known as Toronto Debates 2010, are holding a debate tonight on one of the most important and least discussed issues that Toronto’s government will need to tackle: planning and development. Half the questions were developed during PPT’s recent public forum, and organisers are [...]

Livestream: The Toronto Mayoral Arts Debate

The debate's ended, but you can watch the whole debate on USTREAM.

Do You Care About the Arts?

Then get thee over to the AGO, where your leading mayoral candidates will be debating arts and culture policy this evening. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the debate will run from 6–7:30 p.m.; this one’s getting a lot of buzz, so best head over early. And if you can’t make it, we have your [...]

Get to Know Your Candidates

Early notice if you’re in Ward 36: there are two debates coming up in October that might help you winnow down your choice for councillor. The first is organised by the Scarborough Civic Action Network and will be held October 14, at 6:30 p.m., at Cedar Drive Public School (21 Gatesview Avenue). The second is [...]

We Support the Arts. We Vote.

Election rhetoric this year has, most of all, been characterised by a dizzying, seemingly endless litany of all the things we can apparently no longer afford. Toronto is going to hell in a handcart, or so we’ve been repeatedly told, and with it has gone our ability to finance anything more ambitious than road repaving. [...]

The Fourth Mayoral Debate: Actual Debate Breaks Out

Photo of last month’s debate, courtesy of CP24. For some reason, selected candidates for the mayoralty of Toronto are having a debate tonight on CP24. Christopher Bird is watching for Torontoist, because you probably aren’t. 7:55 PM: Tonight’s debate topics are supposedly “the environment” and “the arts.” Rob Ford’s team is already complaining that this [...]

Another Month, Another Televised Mayoral Debate

Someone, deep in the bowels of the CP24 offices, thought that it would behoove us all as voters to become exposed on a regular basis to our mayoral candidates. Thus, once a month they have been bringing us debates that—we can only assume—are intended to shed light on the various contenders’ platforms and fitness for [...]

Mayoral Candidates Duke It Out in First Debate

Candidate Rob Ford speaks at the March 29 mayoral candidates’ debate. Photo by Emily Shepard/Torontoist The first mayoral debate has come and gone, and if you’re looking for the one-line recap, there was no clear winner. The six major mayoral candidates—Giorgio Mammoliti, Joe Pantalone, Rocco Rossi, Rob Ford, Sarah Thomson, and George Smitherman—gathered last night [...]

Urban Planner: October 6, 2008

MUSIC: Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner will make a rare solo appearance tonight: the Nashville alternative-country singer is playing at the Drake Underground. The Drake Hotel (1150 Queen Street West), 8 p.m., $15. POLITICS: There is a debate tonight for Toronto Centre MP candidates, featuring Green candidate Ellen Michelson, NDP candidate El-Farouk Khaki, Conservative candidate David [...]