Opinion

There’s a lot to wonder about regarding Waterfront Toronto’s emergence as a voice against improving the Gardiner Expressway by tearing it down east of Jarvis. Although the announcement Feb. 20 that WT’s board endorses the demolition option, it was driven ...

There is a prevailing viewpoint that private businesses can do nearly anything better, cheaper and quicker than any government. If there’s a buck to be made, a smart businessperson will always trump an over-stuffed government operation composed of fat-cat bureaucrats, ...

Stig Harvor — The annual budgets of cities are important public issues. They determine the quality of life of all residents, both rich and poor. Yet what does anyone of us really know about Toronto’s new 2014 operating budget of ...

He was about as presidential as Kermit the Frog. But there was great wisdom in what this former candidate for the U.S. Presidency in 1992 said during the campaign. Regarding what turned out to be NAFTA, Ross Perot predicted: “There ...

The person who is elected Mayor of Toronto in October will be the person who has sorted out the question that voters have on their minds. At the moment, it is not clear just what that question is. Rob Ford ...

Toronto’s city politics dominated the news headlines nationally and internationally in 2013. More specifically, it was news about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Although I have an opinion on the stories, I have intentionally avoided writing about any of the controversy ...

While free trade continues to drain Canada of jobs shipped to the U.S. south and to Mexico, Tory corporatists are blaming the Ontario Grits and Dippers for jobs being drained from the province. “Ontario can be a place where people ...

Remember Aesop’s fable of the scorpion and the frog? A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back.  The frog asks, “How do I ...

Mayor Rob  Ford continues his relentless drive to cut city taxes and the size of city staff. Among other measures, he proposes to further privatize city building cleaners. He already privatized cleaners in police stations in early 2012. Cleaning work ...

Astrophysicist  Ian Steer, a St. Lawrence Neighbourhood resident, spoke recently at the Ontario Science Centre on things universal and expansive. It is a stunning presentation so filled with substance it’s best understood by seeing the video several times. Yes, there ...