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Toronto Star • May 10 2021Rhodes Scholar, activist and Jane Jacobs prize winner Kofi Hope says the current constitutional arrangements between cities and provinces are "a bit ridiculous"and says "If we care about our future prosperity and health, we must modernize how we run our cities. A charter city seems like a promising way to do it."
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It took Toronto six years of talks with the province to get permission to hire traffic wardens. Six years.
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NDP introduces bill to curb province's power to change municipalities
Province Bans
Municipal Ranked Ballots
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Municipalities Shoved Aside as
Province Imposes Zoning Orders
EDITORIAL: Release the traffic agents!
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CHARTER CITY TORONTO IN THE NEWS
Ontario Green Party Votes
to Study Charter City Proposals
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 Charter for Toronto finds support from MP Adam Vaughan, John Tory, Academics
TORONTO STAR Jennifer Pagliaro 5 Nov 2019
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 Toronto should have control
over its own future
TORONTO STAR Editorial 5 Nov 2019
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 How a City Charter could
fend off 'political interference'
from Queen's Park
CBC NEWS Nick Boisvert 5 Nov 2019
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 Residents Group Has a Plan to Give Toronto More Power
TORONTO STAR Jennifer Pagliaro 5 Nov 2019
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 Citizens' Group Unveils Proposal for a Toronto City Charter
GLOBE AND MAIL Oliver Moore 5 Nov 2019
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 1400 Pack Church to Hear About Charter Cities
Charter City Toronto 18 June 2019
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 CCTO's Doug Earl; York Prof
Tricia Wood talk Charter Cities
with TVO's Steve Paikin.
The Agenda with Steve Paikin 2019
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 Constitutional amendment 'Only Way' to protect new deal for cities
TVO's The Agenda 20 Aug 2019
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 Could ‘charter city’ status protect Toronto from provincial meddling?
TORONTO STAR Jennifer Pagliaro 19 June 2019
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 Making Toronto a ‘charter city’ a longshot. But longshots have
to start somewhere
TORONTO STAR Edward Keenan 20 June 2019
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 My motion to establish
Toronto as a Charter City
Josh Matlow, City Councillor 13 Sept 2018
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PODCASTS
Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps and
Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson:
The Case for Local Power
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Toronto Star reporter
Jennifer Pagliaro explains
Charter Cities
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CCTO's John Sewell talks
Charter Cities with
Jennifer Keesmat
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Former Mayor John Sewell and CCTO's Doug Earl talk about Charter Cities
(STARTS AT 16 MINUTES IN)
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DEBATES
TORONTO STAR: THE BIG DEBATE
SPACING.CA DEBATE
Dear Toronto:
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In defense of Toronto becoming a Charter City
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How much authority should Toronto, and other Ontario cities, have to run their own affairs
without interference from the province?
DOUG FORD'S WAR ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT
 Ontario moves to axe ranked ballots from municipal elections
CBC NEWS Oct 20, 2020
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 Ontario’s got 99 problems and ranked ballots ain’t one
TORONTO SUN Mitzie Hunter, Kate Graham 21 Nov 2020
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 Kingston reacts to Ford's
revocation of ranked ballots
KINGSTONIST Tori Stafford 21 Oct 2020
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 Ontario opposition leaders condemn Ford's move to scrap ranked ballots
CBC NEWS Oct 23, 2020
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 Ontario Issues Downtown
Zoning Orders Without Telling City
KRISTYN WONG-TAM 26 Oct 2020
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 How the Ford government is upending the local planning process
TORONTO STAR PODCAST
Noor Javed Jennifer Pagliaro 30 Oct 2020 |
 Ford ramps up use of special orders to rezone land without appeals
TORONTO STAR Victoria Gibson 30 Oct 2020
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 Developers getting provincial zoning orders donated $25K to Ontario PCs
TORONTO STAR Jennifer Pagliaro 2 Nov 2020
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 Toronto slams provincial evasion of planning rules for West Don Lands
CBC NEWS 27 Oct 2020
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 Doug Ford's War on Toronto
TORONTO STAR Editorial 6 May 2019
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 Doug Ford’s misguided
war on Toronto
GLOBE AND MAIL Editorial 13 May 2019
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 Ford’s strategy of hitting municipalities with budget cuts, service downloads is ‘risky’ politics, expert says
TORONTO STAR David Rider 3 May 2019
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 City Manager: provincial cuts will cost Toronto nearly $180M in 2019
GLOBE AND MAIL Oliver Moore / Jeff Gray 9 May 2019
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 List of Ontario Municipalities Against
Public Health Cuts Grows
TORONTO STAR Mitch Potter 5 May 2019
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 Ford government restores OMB rules
for development disputes
TORONTO STAR
Tess Kalinowski / Jennifer Pagliaro 2 May 2019 |
 28 Ontario mayors slam province for downloading costs, forcing tax hikes
CANADIAN PRESS 30 April 2019
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 Oakville residents take stand against 'horrible' prospect of amalgamation
CBC NEWS Nick Boisvert 2 May 2019
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 Oakville mayor fearful of
Doug Ford’s "hidden agenda"
inhalton Paige Petrovsky 3 March 2019
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 Toronto makes decisions and
Doug Ford keeps changing them
TORONTO STAR Jennifer Pagliaro 17 April 2019
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 Ontario leaves Toronto hanging on housing; more budget uncertainty
CBC NEWS Matt Elliott 12 April 2019
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 Ford reveals plan for Toronto transit
without city's mayor
CANADIAN PRESS 10 April 2019
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 Doug Ford's subway takeover: an expensive train wreck
NOW MAGAZINE David Miller 30 March 2019
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 New, smaller TO council
costing more than previous
BLOGTO 4 March 2019
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 Why our municipal crisis
goes beyond Ford and Toronto
GLOBE AND MAIL Doug Saunders 14 Sept 2018
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 Doug Ford Says the Ontario need not respect the Constitution
or the rule of law
PRESS PROGRESS 11 Sept 2018
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 Toronto cuts show "paternalistic'
city-province relationship:
Edmonton Mayor
HILL TIMES By Beatrice Paez 29 Aug 2018
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 Chretien, Romanow, McMurtry attack Ford’s use of notwithstanding clause
MACLEAN'S 14 Sept 2018
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 Turning Ford’s attack on Toronto into a movement for democratic renewal
TORONTO STAR
Dennis Pilon, Roger Keil, Bryan Evans,Greg Albo 29 Aug 2018 |
 Ford gov't skips all public consultation on bill to slash TO city council
iPOLITICS Marieke Walsh 10 Aug 2018
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 Constitutional principles should prevent Ontario meddling in Toronto’s election
TORONTO STAR Craig Scott 2 Aug 2018
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 No one is coming
to save us
NATIONAL OBSERVER Desmond Cole 31 July 2018
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 Nearly half of Torontonians oppose Ford’s council cuts
TORONTO STAR Jennifer Yang 29 July 2018
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 The legal case against Ford’s
assault on local democracy
SPACING TORONTO Alexandra Flynn / 30 July 2018
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CITIES
 Toronto used to be a metropolis model.
So what happened?
GLOBE AND MAIL Jack Diamond 10 Oct 2018
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 For Canadians: cities perform
better than provinces
ABACUS DATA Spring 2019
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 The Very Way Cities Like Toronto Are Run Is Making Inequality Worse
HUFFINGTON POST
Brittany Andrew-Amofah 17 June 2019 |
MUNICIPAL FINANCES AND RESOURCES
 Tory says COVID-19 will cost
Toronto city hall $1.5 B
under 'best case scenario'
CBC NEWS 17 April 2020
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 COVID-19 crisis creates chance to re-examine provincial funding of cities
TORONTO STAR
Enid Slack Tomas Hachard 6 April 2020 |
 John Tory: city forced to contemplate 'devastating' service cuts without federal, provincial funding
CBC NEWS 22 May 2020
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 Feds should double
Gas Tax for cities, FCM Says
iPOLITICS 23 July 2019
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 Why Ontario cities are struggling
to make ends meet
TVO's The Agenda 23 July 2019
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 Toronto is continually shortchanged
on government funding
MACLEANS Armine Yalnizyan 31 Jan 2017
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 A sales tax could raise
$2.5 billion for GTHA
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives 29 Jan 2019
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 Cities make power play for new fiscal order with eye to 2019 federal election
CTV NEWS Jordan Press 24 Sept 2018
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 Tory urges 'complete rethink' of city's tax powers for 2018 budget
CP24 Chris Fox / 16 Feb 2017
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POWERS AND AUTONOMY
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 We literally were not able to seek
an injunction under the law,
the province had to do it: Tory
TORONTO STAR David Rider 26 Nov 2020
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 What's the most democratic and effective way to govern a city the size and economic import of Toronto?
GLOBE AND MAIL
Richard Florida + Alan Broadbent 19 Aug 2018 |
 Why cities deserve
more autonomy and respect
TORONTO STAR Shawn Micallef 24 Aug 2018
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 3 ways Toronto could become more autonomous from Ontario
MACLEANS Michael Mendelson 31 Jul 2018
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 It’s time to re-examine
the scope of municipal powers
GLOBE AND MAIL Marcus Gee 22 Oct 2014
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ALBERTA CITY CHARTER NEWS
 Province 'Ripped up' Charter Deal
with City: Edmonton Mayor
CBC NEWS 24 Oct 2019
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 Alta gov't revokes City Charter Framework for Calgary, Edmonton
GLOBE AND MAIL 25 Oct 2019
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 Charter funding for Calgary takes hit in Alberta Budget
CALGARY HERALD 24 Oct 2019
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