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Extra, Extra: Birthday Mayor’s Arts Lunch, Unanimous Consent on Conversion Therapy, and Toronto is One Step Closer to Ranked Ballots
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The mayor/birthday boy speaking at an event that did not happen today. Photo by Alex Guibord from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
- Mayor John Tory rang in his 61st birthday today at the Mayor’s Arts Lunch celebration to recognize winners of the Toronto Arts Foundation Awards. Selected from three finalists per nomination category, award recipients included the composer Emilie Lebel (Emerging Artist Award) and musician-educator Paul Read (Muriel Sherrin Award For International Achievement).
- Today in Queen’s Park, MPPs called for unanimous consent for Bill 77, to end conversion therapy on trans youth in Ontario. The bill will be going to committee before being brought back for a third reading.
- It appears that ranked ballots may finally be on their way to Toronto. Municipal Affairs Minister Ted McMeekin announced this morning that the option for voters to select candidates in order of preference will be made available to all municipalities in favour of it–which, the mayor affirmed, includes us.
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