Extra, Extra: Twelfth in Economic Power but First in Statements, Campaigns, and Petitions
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Extra, Extra: Twelfth in Economic Power but First in Statements, Campaigns, and Petitions

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  • Interested in all things urban? The Atlantic has launched its Atlantic Cities hub to gather “news, analysis, data, and trends” relating to the world’s cities and urban neighbourhoods. Part of the data they’re posting is city rankings, and their first list names the Top 25 Most Economically Powerful Cities, and we’re number 12.

  • Students vote in notoriously low numbers, but that doesn’t mean young people don’t have opinions about key election issues. To try to engage more students in the current provincial election campaign, Student Vote organized a survey and collected responses from 1,204 Ontario high school students. The results indicate that education is the election issue they care about most, and when asked which aspects of education they prioritize, the vast majority of them responded “tuition.” Wise kids.
  • Heritage Toronto released a statement to its supporters about proposed cuts to its City funding, which they need to keep doing the great things they do. One such thing is recognizing worthy individuals with awards like the Heritage Toronto Special Achievement Award for 2011, which just yesterday they announced will go to late real estate developer Paul Oberman.
  • “It started to change just the look of the neighbourhood, and the feel. I’m in design, and I just felt like, it wasn’t what we bought into,” said Liberty Village resident Tegan Phelps in an interview with CBC radio. She was talking about her and her partner’s campaign to make a four-block area of the neighbourhood a child-free zone. Okay, yes, it’s a joke that aired on the spoof news show This Is That, but it’s funny and almost believable, right? Read the comments on the story for extra laughs.
  • #CodeBlueTO really wants you to sign their petition and get involved in their campaign, which is definitely not a spoof, to support “the people’s plans” for the Port Lands, and they’re getting pretty darn good at communicating why it’s so important.

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