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Olivia Chow visiting the Occupy Toronto camp in October 2011.
- As Toronto progressives wonder who might make for a good challenger to Rob Ford in the 2014 municipal election, one name has surfaced more often recently: Olivia Chow. The Trinity-Spadina MP told the Grid in an interview, however, that she’s not interested in the gig.
- A less-discussed aspect of condo construction, and the impact it can have on a neighbourhood’s street life: the big box retail that often goes into the ground floor of new developments. Spacing has a good survey of the root causes of that trend, and some thoughts on how that pattern could be broken.
- Last weekend the Globe took a look behind the scenes at the mayor’s office. Today they released some internal memos from Ford’s team, obtained through a Freedom of Information request.
- Another round-up of reading related to Monday night’s Danzig Street shooting:
- Rob Ford continued today with his hardline stance on the role of gangs in Toronto, telling CP24’s Stephen LeDrew, “I want these people out of the city. And I’m not going to stop. Not put ’em in jail, then come back and you can live in the city. No. I want ’em out of the city. Go somewhere else. I don’t want ’em living in the city anymore.”
- OpenFile spoke with a University of Toronto sociology professor, who tries to unpack the dynamics which can underlie such shootings.
- The most nuanced of all the commentary and analysis we’ve read on the incident so far: Ed Keenan.
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