Opinion

Beware the reign of oligarchs over our Downtown

Frank Touby – It was like a nut fell off a tree and landed on my soft spot. Or an airliner high above inadvertently emptied one of its on-board potties and a bit of the frozen crap whacked me on the ...

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John Tory is the perfect fit for this highly visible job

Frank Touby — John Tory is a magnificent thinker and communicator in the right forum. He has found that métier at CFRB, the AM talk-radio station at 1010 on the dial whose call letters stand for Canada’s First Rogers Broadcast. ...

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Tory would be respectable mayor, but we need more

John  Sewell — A prediction  that John Tory will take the election as the next Toronto mayor seems fairly safe at this point a few weeks before election day. He has the backing of leading Ontario figures in both the ...

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Bombshell election will blast a dud as Ford reign ends

Stig Harvor — A bombshell suddenly exploded on Sept. 10 in our civic election slated for Oct. 27. Rob Ford was unexpectedly admitted to hospital with strong, lower abdominal pains. To cement the Ford dynasty in politics, the Ford family ...

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A talk about St. Lawrence Neighbourhood, its past, present, future

Frank Touby — In 2014 I was asked to deliver a talk to the St. Lawrence Neighbourhood Supper Club which is held regularly at the HotHouse Café. Joining me at the podium were HotHouse owner and community booster Andrew Laffey ...

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The OMB thumbs its nose at St. Lawrence Neighbourhood priorities

Stig Harvor — The all-powerful Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) has done it again! It has ignored existing zoning regulations and City approved Design Guidelines for the historically sensitive St. Lawrence area around the original 10-block Town of York, the birthplace ...

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Loaded survey touts Island airport as vital, not as unneeded

Brian Iler — The Toronto Port Authority (TPA) has resorted to its tradition of push‑polling again this year, and is using its usual friendly polling company, Ipsos-Reid. The TPA’s annual pre‑AGM effort to find support for the Island Airport[i] relies ...

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An inconvenient and catastrophic view of the free trade threat

So you think free trade is a fabulous thing? That’s what the Harper Tories and foreign corporations who rule them want you to believe. However, in the authoritative and pro-capitalism National Post, the article “Free trade by stealth” by two ...

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Non-mainstream media rattles my cage. So here!

Frank Touby – I’m not a conspiracy theorist. At least I try not to be. But some things have me wondering what’s really up. The concerted “mainstream” Canadian media demonization of Vladimir Putin goes almost to the point of renaming ...

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