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Bike Toronto - Candidate survey & voting records:
http://biketoronto.ca/vote2003/show/wsumnumsurv
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Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) - Candidates Report Card:
http://www.torontoenvironment.org/election_survey/mayor-questions.htm
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Ward 30 - Toronto Danforth news see http://gregbonser.ca/
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Scarborough Rouge River Ward 41
- see
http://sonnyyeung.com
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Wendy is backed by unions and many on the left. The incumbent councillor is heavily financed by Condo Developers. Forrest finished third in 2000 out of a field of 8 candidates. She has strong roots in Regent Park, St. Jamestown and Moss Park, where she secured a smashing 28% of the vote in 2000.
www.socialistalternative.info
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From Jeff Brown Ward 19, Trinity - Spadina.
Dear Friends and Supporters,
My name is Jeff Brown. As your councillor candidate for Ward 19 Trinity-Spadina, I take the issues of our community to heart.
Our current councillor has been in office for over two decades. It's time for a change. In fact, when elected I will introduce a motion in council limiting office to two terms. Our community and city deserve accountable, honest representatives that serve the people, not their careers, their friends, and their financial contributors. Whether it's clean streets, safe neighbourhoods, clean air, or accountable and responsive government, I commit to serving your
needs with energy and integrity.
As a former journalist and community newspaper owner, a teacher, a parent and a community volunteer, I understand our Ward's needs and concerns. It's time for someone who's not a career politician to carry our voice to City Hall. It's time for a change.
Your neighbour,
Jeff Brown
www.electjeffbrown.org
Ward 19, Trinity - Spadina. Please call 416-830-1919 or email jeff@electjeffbrown.org
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I'm emailing to introduce myself. My name is David Smaller. I am offering a progressive, environmentally friendly alternative in Ward 14 - Parkdale-High Park.
I invite you to check out my web site - www.davidsmaller.ca - to find out more about the exciting campaign already well under way.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.
David Smaller
Candidate, Ward 14
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Andrew Schulz Candidate for City Councillor
Social/pool party at the home of long time environmental activist, Lois James
2270 Meadowvale Road (just north of Rouge mesh bridge, north Finch, north of Toronto Zoo)
Wednesday June 25, 2003
5:30 PM on
We'll be outdoors on the banks of the Rouge River
Come experience this wonderful property in a unique natural setting.
Please bring some food to share, a lawn chair and swim wear.
Rides can be arranged if you call ahead OR a 15 minute walk north from Zoo entrance (end of the line for Sheppard East bus from Don Mills Station)
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Six Candidates for Councillor Running Under Common Platform
Toronto, ON October 21, 2003
A grassroots election campaign with a platform of Human Rights, Environment
and Real Democracy is aiming to "Humanize Toronto".
The candidates of Humanize Toronto believe that together Toronto can solve
its problems. Our city is an incredibly wealthy city, drawing human
knowledge and experience from every culture and corner of the planet. The
expertise and imaginative power to create a truly humanized city exists
right here, right now.
However, in order to reap the collective knowledge of the people of Toronto,
power must be put in the hands of the neighbourhood. We need a
decentralized city where all our voices can be heard and where we
can have a real say in how our city and neighbourhoods are run.
³We think that all city council decisions should involve neighbourhood input
and be made according to whether they advance Human Rights, the Environment
and Real Democracy. That should be the framework through which Toronto
operates,² says Davenport candidate Cynamin Maxwell.
Humanize Toronto is a totally volunteer grassroots group that ran a highly
visible "Smog Day Free TTC" campaign this past summer. They have also run
Real Budget campaigns for three years in a row, organizing public input into
the City Budget, and have built their 2003 platform largely on the results
on that campaign. The candidates this year include two students, a
documentary director and a kindergarten teacher.
The following candidates are running under the Humanize Toronto banner:
Cynamin Maxwell
Davenport
Ward 18
Philip Vettese
Trinity-Spadina
Ward 19
Roberto Verdecchia
Trinity-Spadina
Ward 20
Gregory Moskos
St. Paul¹s
Ward 21
Nick Radia
Broadview-Greenwood
Ward 29
Colleen Mills
Beaches-East York
Ward 32
Humanize Toronto is organized by members of the Humanist Movement. Other
all-volunteer grassroots projects to initiate change on a neighbourhood
level include the Annex Echo community newspaper and the rNet, an
alternative economic exchange network. Members of the Movement have run in
past federal, provincial and municipal elections.
For additional information about Humanize Toronto, please visit the website
at www.humanizetoronto.org, email humanizetoronto@sympatico.ca or call
416-530-4487.
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Eight Open Council Races Could Reshape City Hall – June.7.2003
Incumbent councilors are very difficult to unseat, and if all the
incumbents ran again this election would be a bore.
In 2003 there are now eight wards to watch.
Councillor Mario Silva of Ward 18 Davenport has announced he won’t be
running again. He’s seeking the federal liberal nomination in that riding.
Brad Duguid of Ward 38, Scarbourough Centre is getting out of municipal
politics to run for MPP in that riding. He will run as a liberal.
Betty Disero of Ward 17 is retiring from politics while
Jack Layton has left in Ward 30 Toronto-Danforth.
David Miller is running for mayor leaving an open race in Ward 13
Parkdale-High Park.
In the last election there were three councilors that didn’t win by wide
margins.
- Gloria Luby in Ward
4 Etobicoke Centre
- Peter Mlczyn in Ward 5 Etobicoke-Lakeshore
- Peter Lipreti in Ward 8 York West
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Councillor Aims for
Queen’s Park – May.2.2003
Brad Duguid, councillor for Ward 38, Scarbourough
Centre is getting out of municipal politics to run for MPP in that riding. He
will run against Tory Marilin Mushinki.
Currently Michael Binetti is the only
registered candidate in that ward.
Duguid’s controversial handling of the city’s garbage woes seems to place him
more in the Tory camp. Though he sees himself as a liberal.
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At the Star - Mar.18.2003
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Slugfests brewing in some wards
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Sutherland
To Leave City Council - April.2003
Toronto Councillor Paul Sutherland has decided to run as a Tory in
the next provincial election, ending speculation he would join the race to
become mayor.
He will run in the riding of Don Valley East, which is held by
Liberal MPP David Caplan. In 1995, he ran provincially for the PCs,
and was defeated by Liberal MPP Elinor Caplan.
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Activist Candidate Runs in Layton’s Toronto-Danforth Turf – Feb.2003
Greg Bonser has been
arrested and pepper sprayed in protests over smog, nuclear power and other
issues. He has more courage than most of us do, but does he have the guts to
walk into City Hall and face the corruption that rules that venue?
As the first candidate to launch a campaign for City Council in Ward 30
Toronto-Danforth Greg may get that chance. It will depend on whether the
showcase green and local community campaign described by supporter Dan King
becomes a hit with voters.
In a city stinking with a garbage crisis, smog, gridlock and a political mess
of corruption and inquiries, dealing honestly with the issues may be a new idea.
Perhaps the problems of this city have become a spiritual crisis rooted in an
establishment motivated purely by greed and lip service to grand ideas about
waterfronts, expressways and airports … problems fueled by Big Media with a
corporate agenda and desire to chew up anyone that could make a difference.
The mayoral, media and NDP machines may chew Bonser up in Toronto-Danforth …
and then maybe they won’t. It’s really up to you in the end because you’re the
voter.
Article by
gary@freeuoft.org
Contact
gregbonser@sympatico.ca
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Five Wards to Watch in Megacity
Election 2003
* Add ward 17 as a sixth now that Betty Disero is leaving.
Based on my stats of the last election most councillors
are unbeatable. Three councillors had slim victories.
- Gloria Luby in Ward 4 Etobicoke Centre
- Peter Mlczyn in Ward 5 Etobicoke-Lakeshore
- Peter Lipreti in Ward 8 York West
- Jack Layton is gone in Ward 30 Toronto-Danforth. Greg Bonser is
currently the only registered candidate there. His campaign is already underway
as a community and showcase green campaign
- David Miller is gone Ward 13 Parkdale-High Park as he is running for mayor. A
progressive candidate is needed there to keep Bill Saundercook from winning.
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The Front St. Vote
- Feb.2003
The final vote on the Front Street Extension was 36 for, 6 against,
3 absent. Green Activists were most disappointed with Councillors Pantalone,
Miller, Mihevc and Silva. Activists see the extension as a waste of $245 million
on a new, downtown highway right next to the GO line.
David Miller, a mayoral candidate, had told activists he would vote no,
but in the end he voted yes.
The NO Votes:
Balkisoon,
Chow,
KK,
McConnell,
Rae,
Walker
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At NowToronto
- Jan.23.2003
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Life
After Layton
NDP BID SPARKS BEHIND-THE-SCENES WAR
FOR COUNCILLOR'S SEAT BY DON WANAGAS
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