Monday, March 28, 2016

A Forgotten Rob Ford: The Machine Maker

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I greatly appreciate the efforts of many of Toronto's better writers and activists to push back against the ghastly effort to recast Rob...
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Sunday, January 4, 2015

Global Warming is Really Just a Risk Mitigation Exercise

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There are four broad outcomes depending on whether we act to mitigate climate change, and whether it is as bad (or worse than) what the mode...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Ranked Balloting (Toronto) Primer: This Needs to Happen

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In 2013, City Council voted 25-16 in favour of a motion that (among other things) asked the province to implement legislation authorizing r...
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Saturday, September 13, 2014

The Ford Family Political Machine

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The recent switch of Doug for Rob in the Mayor's race, and Rob for Michael in the Ward 2 race is in a sense shocking, but not surprising...
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Saturday, September 6, 2014

Sadly, Tying Property Taxes To Inflation Is Progress

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Earlier in the Mayoral campaign, with the unsurprising exception of Ford, the other four (then) "major" candidates (Chow, Stintz, ...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

The "SmartTrack" Political Context

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SmartTrack: Politician designed transit works surprisingly well...for politicians To recap: John Tory has centred his Mayoral campaign on...
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Saturday, July 26, 2014

The Forest On Chow's Bus Pledge Problems

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How did we let our bus fleet get into this bad a shape and why is Chow the only "major" candidate proposing anything to fix it? ...
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