In the run-up to the provincial election on October 6, we’ll be comparing the major parties’ platforms on issues that matter to urban voters. The economy is a meta-issue, or a super-plank, the issue under which all other issues are subsumed. If the economy doesn’t work, then there’s no money to pay for any of […]
In the run-up to the provincial election on October 6, we’ll be comparing the major parties’ platforms on issues that matter to urban voters. Infrastructure sounds like a boring subject until a bridge falls on you. In Toronto, where we have as much infrastructure as the rest of the province combined and the only subway, […]
In the run-up to the provincial election on October 6, we’ll be comparing the major parties’ platforms on issues that matter to urban voters. Health care is a portfolio that’s eventually of great interest to all Ontarians; while it’s all well and good to be transported or educated, being alive is what life’s all about. […]
In the run-up to the provincial election on October 6, we’ll be comparing the major parties’ platforms on issues that matter to urban voters. Education: it gives kids somewhere to go during the day, post-adolescents a place to learn about Jagermeister and fornication, and prevents us from becoming a province of shirtless unemployables locking ourselves […]
In the run-up to the provincial election on October 6, we’ll be comparing the major parties’ platforms on issues that matter to urban voters. The environment is highly charismatic; it keeps us from dying and also is pretty and you can ride snowmobiles through it. Because the provincial government plays a big role in defining […]
In the run-up to the federal election on May 2, we’ll be comparing the major parties’ platforms on issues that matter to urban voters. Each party’s key messages, according their respective colours. Image by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist. Infrastructure funding is a big deal, especially for the 80 per cent of Canadians who live in cities and […]
In the run-up to the federal election on May 2, we’ll be comparing the major parties’ platforms on issues that matter to urban voters. Each party’s key messages, according their respective colours. Image by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist. Tired as you may be of hearing it, Canada is a country of immigrants, many of whom vote. For […]
In the run-up to the federal election on May 2, we’ll be comparing the major parties’ platforms on issues that matter to urban voters. Each party’s key messages, according their respective colours. Image by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist. Crime is a perennial hot-button issue, even when there’s not really that much of it around. Our national parties […]
In the run-up to the federal election on May 2, we’ll be comparing the major parties’ platforms on issues that matter to urban voters. Each party’s key messages, according their respective colours. Image by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist. In spite of our penchant for clubbing baby seals and drowning ducks in toxic sludge, polls routinely suggest that […]
In the run-up to the federal election on May 2, we’ll be comparing the major parties’ platforms on issues that matter to urban voters. Each party’s key messages, according to their respective colours. Image by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist. Historically, attracting the student vote hasn’t been terribly important to federal parties due to the fact that traditionally […]
In the run-up to the federal election on May 2, we’ll be comparing the major parties’ platforms on issues that matter to urban voters. Each party’s key messages, according their respective colours. Image by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist. Is the electoral system in this country broken? In spite of frequent tweaking to the seat-assignment formula over the […]
In the run-up to the federal election on May 2, we’ll be comparing the major parties’ platforms on issues that matter to urban voters. Each party’s key messages, according their respective colours. Image by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist. Health care discussions have been decidedly lacking this election, taking a back seat to questions of fighter jets, prisons, […]
In the run-up to the federal election on May 2, we’ll be comparing the major parties’ platforms on issues that matter to urban voters. Each party’s key messages, according their respective colours. Image by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist. With the country still meandering out of recession and most people more interested in jobs than Junos, Genies, and […]
If you’ve picked up any newspaper or turned on the radio recently, you’ll know that Porter Airlines has a big campaign going on—we’re not talking about its perma-seat sale, although you may have noticed lots of ads for that, too. No, this campaign involves asking the airline’s supPorters (really) to contact their local councillors and […]
Ontarians are going to the polls this week, and though this has been a bit of a sleeper election, the results do matter. With Conservatives in office in Ottawa, and conservatives in office at City Hall, many are wondering if Tim Hudak can make it a trifecta. If you’re still not sure how you’re voting, […]
Each party’s key messages, according their respective colours. Image by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist. Election day has arrived, and with it a whirlwind of last-minute pitches by candidates, pundits prognosticating, and—as few anticipated just five weeks ago—a great deal of uncertainty as to the outcome. Amidst all that frenzy and rhetoric, the annoying commercials and the eye-rollingly […]
This City Council meeting will be a busy one, with taxis, bike lanes, Rob Ford’s replacement, the TORONTO sign, and more on the agenda.
The best repertory and art-house screenings, special presentations, lectures, and limited engagements in Toronto. At rep cinemas this week: a lively primer on Alfred Hitchcock’s best work, another Steve Jobs biopic (a little better than the last), and an American indie breakthrough about illness and loss.
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