Articles tagged with: John Sewell
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By CitySlikr in All Fired Up In The Big Smoke
My Endorsement For Mayor: HiMY SYeD.
He calls himself The Peoples’ Mayor. It is not empty campaign rhetoric. As Mr. SYeD correctly points out, this race has been all about things. Tax cuts, subways and gravy trains. Where are the people?
Semantics, you say? A little, perhaps. But our front running candidates have all been talking about what they are going to do for people, to people. HiMY SYeD talks about what he’ll do with people. Civic engagement sits at …
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By Marc Weisblott, The Globe and Mail
The cast and crew of the City Idol competition watched the Toronto municipal election results come in at Paupers Pub in the Annex, even if the television coverage hardly had the suspense of a World Cup match.
Citytv proclaimed David Miller’s re-election as soon as they signed on-air, and went to rival Jane Pitfield for an instantly incredulous reaction: “They’ve already decided on the winner?”
The effort to make no-contests like Kyle Rae’s inevitable victory in Toronto-Centre Rosedale sound suspenseful was a pretty fruitless allocation of CityNews resources, especially when …
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Adam Giambrone • Adam Vaqughan • Anthony Perruzza • City Idol • CityNews • Deputy Mayor • Desmond Cole • Dignity • Dwight Drummond • Friendship • Garry Green • Helen Kennedy • HiMY SYeD • Jane Pitfield • Jerry Grafstein • Joe Mihevc • Joe Pantalone • John Adams • John Sewell • Kyle Rae • Mayor David Mille • Municipal Election • Paupers Pub • Peter Li Preti • Respect • Simon Wookey • St. Paul's • The Annex • Toronto Centre-Rosedale • Trinity-Spadina • Ward 18 • Ward 19 • Ward 20 • Ward 21 • World Cup • York West
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By Ramanan Sivaranjan, A Funkaoshi Production
I thought this wasn’t a political debate.
Shima and I attended a talk last night at the Theatre Centre — it’s part of that gorgeous building at the corner Dovercourt and Queen. In attendance were 2 candidates from our ward, Adam Giambrone and Simon Wookey. Shima informed me that the remaining guests were also worth paying attention to: they were John Sewell, who is apparently a bit of a planning superstar, but is better known for being a former mayor of Toronto (before my time), and Adam Vaughan, who …
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Adam Giambrone • Adam Vaughan • Architecture • buttons • Candidates • CityTV • Davenport • debate • Deputy Mayor • Environment • Giant Outstallation Art • grassroots • Joe Pantalone • John Sewell • Planning • Simon Wookey • Theatre Centre • Toronto • Trinity-Spadina • Urban Design • Ward 18 • Ward 19 • Ward 20
