An interesting appendix I came across in the agenda for the upcoming EcoDev meeting Toronto employment 2011 vs 2014 Total employed 1,317,327...2011 1,384,409...2014 Office (outside of government 574,969...2011 590,120...2014 Government including Institutional 292,878...2011 306,519...2014...

Not only that but Mel was bright enough to sell off "Bad Boy" to Stuart's on being elected mayor so as not be precieved with a conflict of interest of seeming undue inflence....He and his boy are not being so kind to R Ford.... oops didn't get my facts correct he became mayor of North York in...

Does it really make a difference, the Speaker can always clear the Gallery......

Adma is right... Etobicoke North was not a safe PC riding in '99 and Hastings was the best bet to hold it. Is Sr ran in that riding the PC's would have lost it probably returning to it the NDP . Etobicoke Centre was a cabinet minister (Stockwell) vs a backbencher Sr. the outcome was a...

The movers and shakers at the Clamshell as it stands today Aff Housing Chair...Bailao... Vice...Di Ciano Aud Chair...Lee... Holyday BoHealth...Mihevc... Doucette Budget...Crawford...Campbell Civic App'ts...DMW...Lee CD&R...Pasternak...Fletcher Eco Dev...Thompson...Kelly GM...Ainslie...Davis...

Anybody remember which page or post had the picture of Patrick Brown in background at Fordfest 2012 (he was at the time being misidentified on UT by a couple of posters as Lisi)

Because the appointment of the new board was March 25th... S Holyday and R Ford were installed on that date and Grimes is a holdover....Oh and guess what D Holyday is still on the board. Could that be to keep R Ford under control?

...chuckle...

The whole of Northwest Toronto has undue influence over Council as witnessed by the total number of electors in Wards1,2,3,7,8,9,10,11 and 12 having 314,856 vs say the Old City Wards 19,20,21,22,27,28 with 317,048 It is somewhat difficult to justify 9 wards with a smaller total electorate vs 6...

Really the anomoly is between the 2003...1,825,139 and 2006...1,521,121 A 304,018 drop in total electors. You'd think there would be a total population shrinkage however that is not the case as noted by census 1996...2,385,415 2001...2,481,510 2006...2,503,345 2011...2,615,090

Came across a bit of an anomoly while I was searching the Toronto Elections site 2003 Total electors....1,825,139 2014 Total electors....1,813,915 Strange considering how it is being shouted from the rooftops that Toronto is growing by leaps and bounds. Out of curiousity I decided to try to...

If anyone is interested here is a matrix I put (current to 4/2/15) re Councillor committee pressure 1st number is total number of appointments, committees and BIA's Councillors meet with 2nd number is Standing Committees, Large External Committees and appointments (Deputy Mayors, Speakers, CC...

I find this faux outrage amusing considering I posted back on Dec 3/14 in J Tory thread R Ford's appointments including HHoF as recommended by the Striking Committee...If there was real outrage to the appointment, it could have voided at the Dec 3/14 City Council meeting ST1.1 could have been...

The Other Councillors on HHoF Grimes and Holyday There was a long list of Councillors in addition to the above who expressed interest to the Striking Commmittee for HHoF back in December Ainslie Berardinetti Burnside Colle Carroll DiCiano Layton Mammoliti Thompson

Mentioned this several months back...the Striking Committee appointed R Ford to Hockey Hall of Fame Toronto Region Conservation Authority Audit Committee Government Mgmt Committee and as mentioned earlier this week he was ignored for appointment (as an interested member) to the following...

Does anyone else think J Tory is ready to make changes to the Exec? I'm thinking at least two at committee chair level probably by June. I can see Palacio being removed as L&S chair in favour of Matlow and Shiner ousted at P&GM with KW-T taking the chair....also I think that FDG as at large can...

Both Mammo and Moeser played the game well enough not to caught in the consecutive unexcused absence conundrum....They both were present for at least 1/2 day or one vote and that started the clock again....

Is there a Mascarin, Rust D'eye, Ha-Redeye or anyone with municipal law knowledge posting in this forum? If so please tell me if I'm correct in the fact a single elector can petition the Ontario Superior Court to declare a Council seat vacant whether there is a seating member or not. Wow, if so...

Except if that were the case it would Luke LaRocque (11% of the Ward 2 vote) not Domise (8%) getting the seat....

What is R Ford thinking? Holding down an item in Ward 22 ( I guess the double two made it doubly important) to deny an application to remove a tree. I wonder if J Matlow will take up A Vaughan's vendetta against R Ford meddling in Downtown wards?