Exciting municipal election news today, maybe even if you’re the type who’s more likely confused by municipal elections.
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Maybe especially if you’re usually confused.
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The Star is launching a tool, with Vox Pop Labs, that will help make your options clear.
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I’ll have more about that in just a moment.
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But first up, here are six things to know to start your week:
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As the candidates to lead Ontario’s Liberal Party prepare to debate tonight, observers see plenty of “blue sky” and less “detail.”
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- Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is pitching a plan to lower taxes on diesel fuel.
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- OpenAI paused training its latest models after reports they went rogue probing U.S. government sites in “unexpected ways.”
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- Police have identified the second victim in the investigation of two bodies found in burning vehicles at opposite ends of the city last week.
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- Toronto has often traded off the dubious title of most expensive rental city with Vancouver.
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- This NHL season is bringing a new broadcast look, and losing some old faces (including the only woman on the Saturday night panel).
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Today, in one of the largest civic engagement projects in our history, the Star launches Vote Compass in partnership with Vox Pop Labs.
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It’s a tool that allows residents of 50 cities across Ontario to see how their views compare with more than 1,000 candidates for mayor and city council.
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Editor-in-chief Nicole MacIntyre writes that expanding it across Ontario seemed vital.
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“In some cities, voter turnout in the last municipal election hovered around 20 per cent.
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It doesn’t feel like a coincidence that many of the same places are underserved by journalists, with minimal coverage of local government.”
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More:
- Vote Compass shows Ontario mayoral candidates are cool to strong mayor powers.
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- Toronto tried putting political parties on city ballots decades ago.
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Ben Cohen explores how they’re making a comeback.
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- Shawn Micallef explains why in this election, your vote for city council could be as important as who becomes mayor.
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- Join our ‘If I Were Mayor’ conversation: Oct. 1 at MaRS Discovery District, columnist Adam Radwanski and an expert panel talk about innovation and Toronto’s future.
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Justice
- Madison Chard was found dead in Port Hope.
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Four years later, her family wrestles with a police investigation gone cold.
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- For years, police did nothing to find a man charged with child sex abuse.
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Now his case has been tossed over the delay.
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- A former actress turned private eye wound up in the crosshairs of the Project South investigation.
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Immigration
- The last refugee surge overwhelmed shelters.
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Cities have been working to build a more sustainable system to be ready for the next one.
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Education
- Students moved; teachers reassigned; classes collapsed, combined and resized.
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This year’s school reorganization has been more disruptive than usual, and parents are steaming.
Smart Money
- Borrowers need to brace themselves: the trend in interest rates is upward.
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Banks have been holding mortgages steady, but it’s not certain they’ll stay that way.
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- Here’s a surprise: the money influencers on TikTok are half right.
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Less surprising: they’re half dangerous, Lesley-Anne Scorgie says.
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For a long time, I was opposed to political parties in Toronto.
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David Miller might never have been mayor if we had them, because he’d likely have lost a progressive nomination battle to Barbara Hall.
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Rob Ford, too — he was no one’s idea of a party nominee when he entered the race.
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But beyond that, I spent a long time seeing cross-ideological alliances form at city council.
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And John Tory’s and Joe Cressy’s successful pandemic cooperation and friendship isn’t something you’d see in a council strictly divided along party lines the way our federal and provincial governments are.
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But lately, I’ve been less sure that there isn’t some use for them at city hall.
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The city government is a big beast, and it’s governed by a smaller council than it used to be.
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…and 37 more, not listed.
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