Allison Smith
Editor at TorontoToday.ca
Editor of TorontoToday at Village Media
Editor of TorontoToday @torontotodayca. Former publisher of Queen's Park Today, Politics Today.
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3 days ago |
torontotoday.ca | Allison Smith |Kathryn Mannie
Rookie Liberal MP Evan Solomon is Canada’s minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation, a new portfolio that signals a tech focus for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new government. Solomon, a former CBC and CTV broadcast journalist, was elected to represent the Liberals in Toronto Centre last month. Toronto—Danforth Liberal MP Julie Dabrusin was also named to Carney’s cabinet. Dabrusin, who was elected for a fourth term, will serve as minister of environment and climate change.
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2 weeks ago |
torontotoday.ca | Allison Smith
There are three downtown Toronto ridings where new Members of Parliament will definitely be elected today. There are no incumbents running in Toronto Centre, Spadina—Harbourfront and Taiaiako'n—Parkdale—High Park. That means whoever wins the most votes in those districts will be a rookie MP when they head to the House of Commons.
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3 weeks ago |
torontotoday.ca | Allison Smith
Toronto councillors hotly opposed to the redevelopment of Ontario Place leveraged a recent New York Times investigation to get the issue back on the city’s agenda. Councillors Josh Matlow (Toronto-St. Paul’s) and Ausma Malik (Spadina-Fort York) brought a motion to this week’s city council meeting requesting city manager Paul Johnson prepare a “status update” on the construction, permitting, approvals and land transfers at Ontario Place.
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3 weeks ago |
torontotoday.ca | Allison Smith
March marked the sixth straight month of “record all-time lows” in new home sales in the Greater Toronto Area, according to data from Altus Group. Only 385 new homes were sold in the GTA last month, 87 per cent below the 10-year average for the region. In Toronto, 73 new condo units were sold in March, as well as five single-family homes, per Altus Group.
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3 weeks ago |
torontotoday.ca | Allison Smith
Education Minster Paul Calandra is sending “financial investigators” into the city’s school boards to inspect their spending and deficits. Calandra made the announcement Wednesday afternoon, warning that the investigators would have the option to recommend the Ministry of Education take control over the boards. The news wraps in both the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) and Toronto District School Board (TDSB), the largest school board in the country.
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Let @GabeOatley take you on a tour of the weird shit happening at the giant crypto conference taking place in Toronto this week. https://t.co/1kg3nXKs4Z
Note: Queen's Park Circle and Avenue Road are famously the same street (and bike lanes) as University Avenue, which the Ford government has been pinpointing for months. The PCs are known to leak something they consider flattering ahead of budget day, but this is a stretch lol
NEW: Premier Doug Ford is gearing up to remove even more Toronto bike lanes, the @TorontoStar has learned. Thursday's budget legislation will include the removal of the bike lanes on Queen's Park Cr. and on Avenue Rd. south of Davenport Rd. https://t.co/6GJLySPqPP
RT @torontotodayca: See the Toronto winners and losers from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet announcement. https://t.co/wX2PjUN3FM