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Mayor Olivia Chow's Toronto
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zang
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I would posit that city council (and the world in general) needs less "useful idiots".
Northern Light
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Looking at the above:
Carroll is an obvious choice for budget chief, seeing as she did that for Mayor Miller. She knows how to talk to almost everyone on Council and bridge gaps.
Pasternak will bend to power, he might be a good choice from western North York.
I think Cheng would come into the fold.
For all we may collectively think of Bradford, he's an ardent champion of zoning reform and cycling/bikeshare, I think he can probably be useful.
Then you bring in Bravo, you need one of the downtown Councillors flip a coin on Malik or Moise, from Scarborough, Myers is the obvious choice, but Mc Kelvie is very pro-cycling and sidewalks and can move votes, she also has the Exec. Experience.
Ainslie is mushy middle and experience too, but less able to move other councillors.
You need someone from Etobicoke, the obvious choice is Morley.
Current Executive:
Looking at some of the names I dropped, they look alot like what's there now, minus Crawford, and you need to add the Mayor's chair back.
An Executive of:
Chow - NDP
Morley - NDP
Bravo -NDP
Carroll - Left- Middle
Cheng - Mushy Middle
Ainslie - Mushy Middle
Pasternak - Decent on cycling, opportunist and right- middle
McKelvie - Right centre, good on cycling/sidewalks
Bradford - Right Centre - good on housing/cycling
Doesn't look terrible to me.
Probably temping to swap out one middler for another NDP, w/Moise/Malik being the likely choices.
That gives good geographic range.
The above
NDP 3
Left-Centre 1
Right-Centre 2
Middle 3
Sex: 6 women - 3 men
Diversity: 6 - Caucasian; 3 PoC - if you swap in Malik/Moise, 5-4, probably (depending on who you swap out)
Carroll is an obvious choice for budget chief, seeing as she did that for Mayor Miller. She knows how to talk to almost everyone on Council and bridge gaps.
Pasternak will bend to power, he might be a good choice from western North York.
I think Cheng would come into the fold.
For all we may collectively think of Bradford, he's an ardent champion of zoning reform and cycling/bikeshare, I think he can probably be useful.
Then you bring in Bravo, you need one of the downtown Councillors flip a coin on Malik or Moise, from Scarborough, Myers is the obvious choice, but Mc Kelvie is very pro-cycling and sidewalks and can move votes, she also has the Exec. Experience.
Ainslie is mushy middle and experience too, but less able to move other councillors.
You need someone from Etobicoke, the obvious choice is Morley.
Current Executive:
Looking at some of the names I dropped, they look alot like what's there now, minus Crawford, and you need to add the Mayor's chair back.
An Executive of:
Chow - NDP
Morley - NDP
Bravo -NDP
Carroll - Left- Middle
Cheng - Mushy Middle
Ainslie - Mushy Middle
Pasternak - Decent on cycling, opportunist and right- middle
McKelvie - Right centre, good on cycling/sidewalks
Bradford - Right Centre - good on housing/cycling
Doesn't look terrible to me.
Probably temping to swap out one middler for another NDP, w/Moise/Malik being the likely choices.
That gives good geographic range.
The above
NDP 3
Left-Centre 1
Right-Centre 2
Middle 3
Sex: 6 women - 3 men
Diversity: 6 - Caucasian; 3 PoC - if you swap in Malik/Moise, 5-4, probably (depending on who you swap out)
Towered
Superstar
I could live with this. Anything that relegates Holyday to irrelevance...
christiesplits
Senior Member
I anticipate you'll see someone from the old guard left, like Fletcher or Perks, on Chow's exec.
You'll need a centrist or two to help bring the "mushy middle" into the fold on big council votes. I think Ainslie is a very good bet. He plays well with others and represents Scarborough, which went big for Chow last month.
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Ideally we will also get a new Speaker.
Towered
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Chow rode to City Hall with a huge group of fellow "pinko" cyclists for her swearing in ceremony - already setting a positive, progressive tone! I really hope it's backed up with fast tracking tons more cycling infrastructure.
**** you, Don Cherry.
**** you, Don Cherry.
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christiesplits
Senior Member
Mike Layton is probably kicking himself for not running again.
TonyV
Senior Member
I take Layton’s reason at face value: family time. I do like his integrity. At the same time I wonder if he’s keeping an eye on things city-hall related.
I honestly don't think he is. I expect he is keeping his eye on things indeed and may make a run later on when his kids are a bit older. Or then again, he has lived this life forever and may just be enjoying having his evenings and weekends back.
Admiral Beez
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My June 2023 property tax bill was up by 12% over my earlier one. I'm okay with paying more if we can fix the city, but I do worry that Chow will hit me with another double digit increase.
TonyV
Senior Member
I see this mayoralty as a change of the guard. At least I hope so.
A couple of recent articles in the press were to the effect of “we haven’t seen the last of John Tory” (I believe that was stated generically) and blah blah blah, while I choose to differ.
We need new leaders who reflect the present (and future) city. Olivia’s mayoralty is a very positive turn. I think future leaders will become apparent in this term.
A couple of recent articles in the press were to the effect of “we haven’t seen the last of John Tory” (I believe that was stated generically) and blah blah blah, while I choose to differ.
We need new leaders who reflect the present (and future) city. Olivia’s mayoralty is a very positive turn. I think future leaders will become apparent in this term.
Admiral Beez
Superstar
Starting with Harris' amalgamation, the Lastman-Miller-RoFo-Tory period will be seen as a lost era for Toronto. By 2040 we'll have ended up with the city we could have had in 2020 if amalgamation had not occurred.
nfitz
Superstar
That doesn't sound right. With no changes to assessment values this year (frozen since 2020 for the full 2016 value), everyone's increase should be the same. The exception would be if there was some major property improvement that would increase the value.
Looking at my final bill (issued in May) the total amount was $4,590.62 compared to $4,354.02. This is a 5.4% increase. Below the national inflation rate of 6.8%. The city portion of the bill (as opposed the unchanged provincial education tax) was up 7.2%.