David Rider

2 days ago | thespec.com | David Rider

The Ford government’s latest bid to jump-start housing construction appears to threaten Toronto’s 15-year-old “green standard,” which limits the greenhouse gas emissions new buildings can emit and ensures those homes are resilient to flash flooding and other consequences of climate change.

1 week ago | thespec.com | Noor Javed |David Rider |Raju Mudhar

Vina Viejo, a personal support worker in Richmond Hill, supported Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government with votes and campaign donations for almost a decade. But Viejo’s had a change of heart. In last Monday’s federal election, she moved her support behind Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives and says she convinced her partner and multiple family members — about 15, she estimates, except for one holdout sister — to join her in abandoning the Liberals.

2 weeks ago | thespec.com | David Rider

Bhutila Karpoche is fighting for her political life. “I’m just really pushing hard as it looks more and more likely that it could be a Liberal majority government,” Karpoche said Friday as she knocked on doors. “We need strong progressive voices to hold the Liberals accountable because they have let us down time and again, and we’re going to need voices to fight not just for our community, but also for our city.

2 weeks ago | thespec.com | David Rider

Blue-clad volunteers huddled inside MP Don Stewart’s re-election campaign office for a pep talk before emerging into the Saturday morning sunshine, clipboards and brochures in hand, on a mission. “We’re trying to turn the tide,” one said to another as they fanned out to convince Toronto—St. Paul’s voters to hold this swath of midtown as a Conservative Party of Canada toehold in a city that, until last June, had elected only federal Liberals since 2015.

3 weeks ago | thespec.com | David Rider

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