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Articles by Ivor Tossell

Damn You, John Graves Simcoe

By Ivor Tossell | July 21st, 2011
From extreme cold to extreme hot—it's days like this we wonder whose idea it was to put a city here. We know of course, and we can blame him for pretty much everything.Read More

Doug Ford in the Land of Chalk Drawings

By Ivor Tossell | June 29th, 2011
Every time he opens his mouth, he reminds us more and more of Simon — the line-drawn hero of a 1970s British kids show.Read More

Pride Snub

By Ivor Tossell | June 23rd, 2011
Dear Mayor Ford, I hear you’re going to be missing Pride. The thing is, you don’t skip Pride when you’re Rob Ford, because you already have a history of saying dumb things about gay people.Read More

How Toronto is Not Vancouver

By Ivor Tossell | June 17th, 2011
A burning car makes great TV. This much we can all agree on. It doesn’t, however, make what happened in Toronto during the G20 anything like Wednesday's riot in Vancouver.Read More

Naming Rights, Naming Wrongs

By Ivor Tossell | June 16th, 2011
Locals are dismayed that cash-poor Toronto is considering the sale of naming rights to publicly owned facilities. But the limits of what we accept in the way of branding is riddled with inconsistencies.Read More

Road Rules

By Ivor Tossell | June 9th, 2011
It’s time to bring cyclists out of limbo and into the fold. Give them the facilities they need, rules they can follow, and then enforce the snot out of them. Otherwise, the yahoos will have it.Read More

An Eye for an Eye, Bridge for a Bridge

By Ivor Tossell | June 3rd, 2011
It's impossible to tell whether the now martyred Fort York bridge was cancelled because of cost, parochialism, suburban resentment, or good, old-fashioned spite.Read More

The Useful Hole

By Ivor Tossell | June 2nd, 2011
We may have to raise taxes we just froze to replace taxes we just axed to alleviate the apocalyptic financial shortfall we face every year that we just deliberately made worse.Read More

Transit City's Dead! Long Live Transit!

By Ivor Tossell | May 17th, 2011
Rob Ford's transit plans aren't nearly as bad as they sound. In fact, they might be just what the city needs: fast, effective transportation, with nary a single transfer needed.Read More
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