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June 2018
Vision Zero or Zero Vision?
Vision Zero or Zero Vision?
What is Toronto doing to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety?
July 2018
Is there Value to a Diversity City Council?
Does Diversity benefit the city? How about diverse representation?
Find out more »August 2018
Non-Citizen Voting – Should Municipalities consider this?
Should municipalities consider allowing non citizens to vote to increase voter participation?
Find out more »September 2018
Reducing Toronto’s City Council
What impact will reducing Toronto's council size have on the residents of Toronto?
Find out more »October 2018
Uploading Toronto’s Subway – Is it a good idea?
Is uploading the Subway to the province a good idea? Is it a backdoor to the eventual privatization of the TTC or could regional management make the entire system more efficient? The Premier’s details are scant but such a move could be either disastrous or beneficial to the system. A special advisor has been appointed to develop the best approach to upload the asset. Premier Ford wants this to be the keystone of a regional transportation system while critics see…
Find out more »November 2018
Ranked Ballots – Should Ontario adopt it province wide?
Is it time Toronto adopted a ranked ballot system to elect our city representation? On October 22, London Ontario elected its first city council based on ranked ballots. It’s already in used in London, England, San Francisco, St. Paul’s Minnesota, and many other countries as far afield as Australia and Ireland. What are the advantages and what are the drawbacks? What can we expect to see from our first municipality in Ontario to use the system? Michael Urban from Ranked…
Find out more »January 2019
Digital Rights – Privacy, Fair Use, and the lack of Clarity
Digital Rights, Privacy, Fair Use - These are all issues that we don't have clarity on. Canada needs to create laws to get ahead of technology and not constantly be lagging behind.
Find out more »February 2019
City Autonomy
Should large cities get to govern themselves apart from the rest of the province?. Whether it is permission to set road tolls or how many city councillors the city needs, Toronto has had successive governments interfere with its administration. Should the province really get a say in how assets forced upon a city are managed? Is it time that Canada’s big cities grew up? John Sewell, former mayor of Toronto, and Doug Earl, former CBC journalist and committee member…
Find out more »March 2019
New Canada Food Guide – An Early Look
Canada is getting a new food guide! The food guide is perhaps the first political document Canadian children are introduced to. Historically, it was a standard bearer for the most powerful food lobbies and revisions based on health and nutritional needs were difficult. What does the new guide mean for the food industry? Dairy farmers are already warning about the new guide’s harm to the dairy sector. How will the new guide work? Who are the winners and losers to…
Find out more »April 2019
Canadian Mining – Needs, Rights, and Responsibilities
Did you know that 75% of the world’s mining companies are headquartered in Canada? With this much pull on the world stage, you would think that Canada could impose its health and humans rights values around the world. However, what are the values that we hold dear? In our own backyards, aboriginal rights are ignored in the name of pipelines. What other atrocities are committed in Canada’s name further afield? Sakura Saunders, mining justice organizer, and , Kerrie Blaise, Environmental…
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