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Articles by Ivor Tossell

So Long, and Thanks for All the Yurts

By Ivor Tossell | November 27th, 2011
Can Occupy stay occupied without an occupation?Read More

In Parkdale

By Ivor Tossell | November 4th, 2011
A dead cat and a city that works.Read More

The Limits of Schadenforde

By Ivor Tossell | October 28th, 2011
The mayor has gone from a juggernaut to hardly a mayor at all. His helplessness is hard to watch.Read More

Let's Blow Up Toronto

By Ivor Tossell | October 7th, 2011
Deamalgamation, an idea that went back into circulation this week at council, is a pleasant fantasy–and a lousy idea.Read More

Election Blog: Fact-checking Hudak's

By Ivor Tossell | October 3rd, 2011
On the campaign trail today, Tim Hudak stood by a flyer accusing McGuinty of promoting “cross-dressing for six-year-olds” and of keeping parents in the dark. We looked at Hudak's flyer's to see how its claims lined up with the factRead More

Hold the Fireworks

By Ivor Tossell | September 22nd, 2011
The Fords have buckled on the waterfront and put off budget cuts. Time to celebrate? Not quite.Read More

Leaders Great and Small

By Ivor Tossell | September 16th, 2011
Sometimes it takes a visitor from the outside to point out how quickly and dramatically our political horizons have shrunk. By Ivor Tossell.Read More

The Klondike Fords

By Ivor Tossell | September 12th, 2011
When Rob Ford likened his brother's development plans for the Port Lands to a gold rush he probably didn't realize just how unfortunately apt his metaphor was. By Ivor Tossell.Read More

I'm Thinking of a Word to Describe...

By Ivor Tossell | September 6th, 2011
There's incompetence and uncompetence. Let us learn the difference. Welcome, everyone, to Toronto.Read More
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