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Toronto Mayors

Author : Mark Maloney
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459751248
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Toronto Mayors written by Mark Maloney and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever look at all 65 Toronto mayors — the good, the bad, the colourful, the rogues, and the leaders — who have shaped the city. Toronto’s mayoral history is both rich and colourful. Spanning 19 decades and the growth of Toronto, from its origins as a dusty colonial outpost of just 9,200 residents to a global business centre and metropolis of some three million, this compendium provides fascinating biographical detail on each of the city’s mayors. Toronto’s mayors have been curious, eccentric, or offbeat; others have been rebellious, swaggering, or alcoholic. Some were bigots, bullies, refugees, war heroes, social crusaders, or bon vivants; still others were inspiring, forward looking, or well ahead of their time. One Toronto mayor attempted to kill a predecessor, but his pistol jammed. Another simply beat up the councillors he didn’t like. One committed murder, while another carried out a home invasion. And under the threat of capture and certain death, two mayors were forced to escape the city and live for years in exile, while another had 18 kids and cried poor, yet died on a luxury European vacation (minus the kids). One mayor was involved in the brutal torture of an opposition candidate. Another went insane while in office due to acute third stage syphilis. Each mayor is the inheritor of a rich legacy of hopes and dreams, ambitions and efforts, successes and failures. From the first mayor in 1834 — the firebrand rebel William Lyon Mackenzie — to those of the 21st century — Mel Lastman, David Miller, Rob Ford, and John Tory — Toronto Mayors looks at where each came from, how they came to lead the city, what issues they dealt with, and how they steered Toronto’s City Council.

Crazy Town

Author : Robyn Doolittle
Publisher : Penguin Canada
ISBN 13 : 0143191349
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Crazy Town written by Robyn Doolittle and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His drug and alcohol-fuelled antics made world headlines and engulfed a city in unprecedented controversy. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s personal and political troubles have occupied centre stage in North America’s fourth largest city since news broke that men involved in the drug trade were selling a videotape of Ford appearing to smoke crack cocaine. Toronto Star reporter Robyn Doolittle was one of three journalists to view the video and report on its contents in May 2013. Her dogged pursuit of the story has uncovered disturbing details about the mayor’s past and embroiled the Toronto police, city councilors, and ordinary citizens in a raucous debate about the future of the city. Even before those explosive events, Ford was a divisive figure. A populist and successful city councillor, he was an underdog to become mayor in 2010. His politics and mercurial nature have split the amalgamated city in two. But there is far more to the story. The Fords have a long, unhappy history of substance abuse and criminal behavior. Despite their troubles, they are also one of the most ambitious families in Canada. Those close to the Fords say they often compare themselves to the Kennedys and believe they were born to lead. Regardless of whether the mayor survives the scandal, the Ford name is on the ballot in the mayoralty election of 2014. Fast-paced and insightful, Crazy Town is a page-turning portrait of a troubled man, a formidable family and a city caught in an jaw-dropping scandal.

Some Great Idea

Author : Edward Keenan
Publisher : Coach House Books
ISBN 13 : 1770563261
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Some Great Idea written by Edward Keenan and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly oscillate from one extreme to another, and how the city might proceed from here. Some Great Idea includes behind-the-scenes tales from the Miller and Ford campaigns, and explores recent turning points like the city's core service review and the mayor’s con?ict-of-interest trial. Through personal history, keen reportage and revelatory analysis, it shows how the fundamental principles of diversity and democracy that have made Toronto such a vibrant, dynamic 21st-century city can produce an unlikely politician like Ford. And how those same principles have vividly and repeatedly insisted that such politicians are only part of a larger, messier and more productive urban politics. This is a story about both Toronto's past and present, how the city has relentlessly and collaboratively reinvented itself. But it's also a story about Toronto's future, and what that future might mean for all global cities. This is a story that says you can ?ght city hall. Edward Keenan serves as senior editor and lead columnist at The Grid magazine in Toronto, Ontario. An eight-time finalist at the National Magazine Awards, he has written for and edited at Eye Weekly, Spacing magazine, and The Walrus.

Mayors of Toronto: 1834-1899

Author : Victor Loring Russell
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mayors of Toronto: 1834-1899 written by Victor Loring Russell and published by Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Beijing-Vancouver Express: Connecting Toronto To Dalian, China to Canada

Author : Martin Avery
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312286806
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Beijing-Vancouver Express: Connecting Toronto To Dalian, China to Canada written by Martin Avery and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beijing-Vancouver Express: Connecting Toronto To Dalian, China To Canada is an imaginative work of poetry inspired by the plans for a real train line and by an old book of poetry by Richard Brautigan.

Proceedings of the Conference of American Mayors on Public Policies as to Municipal Utilities

Author : Conference of American Mayors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Conference of American Mayors on Public Policies as to Municipal Utilities written by Conference of American Mayors and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Toronto to 1918

Author : J.M.S. Careless
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780888626646
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Toronto to 1918 written by J.M.S. Careless and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of 1793 Toronto was the gateway to a distant portage to the Upper Great Lakes, its permanent population a lone fur trader. One hundred and twenty-five years later it was a solid, vibrant metropolis, an industrial powerhouse supporting half a million residents. Toronto is a city built by its people, from the original colonial aristocracy of the Family Compact, to the masses of British and Irish migrants who forged its profound links with Empire, to the polyglot flow of international migration that would ultimately transform the city in the twentieth century. This book recounts their stories, and their stories are the history of Toronto's emergence as a world-class city. In Toronto to 1918, distinguished historian J.M.S. Careless expertly draws Toronto's stories together, creating an illuminating and entertaining portrait of the city. The text is complemented with more than 150 historical illustrations.

The Shape of the Suburbs

Author : John Sewell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802098843
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Shape of the Suburbs written by John Sewell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Sewell examines the relationship between the development of suburbs, water and sewage systems, highways, and the decision-making of Toronto-area governments to show how the suburbs spread, and how they have in turn shaped the city.

Comparative Metropolitan Policy

Author : Jen Nelles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136458093
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Comparative Metropolitan Policy written by Jen Nelles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How are metropolitan regions governed? What makes some regions more effective than others in managing policies that cross local jurisdictional boundaries? Political coordination among municipal governments is necessary to attract investment, rapid and efficient public transit systems, and to sustain cultural infrastructure in metropolitan regions. In this era of fragmented authority, local governments alone rarely possess the capacity to address these policy issues alone. This book explores the sources and barriers to cooperation and metropolitan policy making. It combines different streams of scholarship on regional governance to explain how and why metropolitan partnerships emerge and flourish in some places and fail to in others. It systematically tests this theory in the Frankfurt and Rhein-Neckar regions of Germany and the Toronto and Waterloo regions in Canada. Discovering that existing theories of metropolitan collective action based on institutions and opportunities are inconsistent, the author proposes a new theory of "civic capital", which argues that civic engagement and leadership at the regional scale can be important catalysts to metropolitan cooperation. The extent to which the actors hold a shared image of the metropolis and engage at that scale strongly influences the degree to which local authorities will be willing and able to coordinate policies for the collective development of the region. Metropolitan Governance and Policy will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative urban and metropolitan governance and sociology.

Workers and Canadian History

Author : Gregory S. Kealey
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773513523
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Workers and Canadian History written by Gregory S. Kealey and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of twelve essays by Gregory Kealey, will be of great interest to students and scholars of Canadian history, labour history, Marxist and socialist theory and history, and political science.

Toronto Sketches 9

Author : Mike Filey
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459712455
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Toronto Sketches 9 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Filey’s column "The Way We Were" first appeared in the Toronto Sunday Sun not long after the first edition of the paper hit the newsstands and front porches on September 16, 1973. Since that day more than three decades ago, Mike’s column has enjoyed an uninterrupted stretch as one of the paper’s most popular features. In 1992 a number of his columns were reprinted in Toronto Sketches: The Way We Were by Dundurn Press. Since then another seven volumes of Toronto Sketches have been published, each of which has attained great success both with Toronto book buyers and with former Torontonians wishing to relive an earlier, gentler time in the city’s past. This ninth volume features a variety of stories, including a look at Toronto’s 1904 inferno, the birth of Rex Heslop’s Rexdale community, a visit to Sunnyside Amusement Park, and a few fascinating tales about the city’s streetcars.

Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story

Author : Robyn Doolittle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143191802
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story written by Robyn Doolittle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shocking new revelations about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, his family and associates by the Toronto Star reporter who has closely covered Ford’s career. Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story, by Robyn Doolittle, will chronicle Ford’s ascent from a flamboyant city councillor to a mayor embroiled in controversy.

Toronto Sprawls

Author : Lawrence Solomon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442690429
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Toronto Sprawls written by Lawrence Solomon and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-05-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a landmass of approximately 7000 square kilometres and a population of roughly five million, the Greater Toronto Area is Canada's largest metropolitan centre. How did a small nineteenth-century colonial capital become this sprawling urban giant, and how did government policies shape the contours of its landscape? In Toronto Sprawls, Lawrence Solomon examines the great migration from farms to the city that occurred in the last half of the nineteenth century. During this period, a disproportionate number of single women came to Toronto while, at the same time, immigration from abroad was swelling the city's urban boundaries. Labour unions were increasingly successful in recruiting urban workers in these years. Governments responded to these perceived threats with a series of policies designed to foster order. To promote single family dwellings conducive to the traditional family, buildings in high-density areas were razed and apartment buildings banned. To discourage returning First World War veterans from settling in cities, the government offered grants to spur rural settlement. These policies and others dispersed the city's population and promoted sprawl. An illuminating read, Toronto Sprawls makes a convincing case that urban sprawl in Toronto was caused not by market forces, but rather by policies and programs designed to disperse Toronto's urban population.

Riverdale

Author : Elizabeth Gillan Muir
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459728726
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Riverdale written by Elizabeth Gillan Muir and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete history of Toronto's Riverdale community, this book narrates the lives of early inhabitants, (reaching as far back as Simcoe's first settlement of the region), the construction boom of 1915, and the waves of immigration that made Riverdale one of Toronto's most diverse areas.

The Politics of Ontario

Author : Cheryl N. Collier
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487562241
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Ontario written by Cheryl N. Collier and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ontario is the most populous province in Canada and perhaps the most complex. It encompasses a range of regions, cities, and local cultures, while also claiming a long-standing pre-eminence in Canadian federalism. The second edition of The Politics of Ontario aims to understand this unique and ever-changing province. The new edition captures the growing diversity of Ontario, with new chapters on race and Ontario politics, Black Ontarians, and the relationship of Indigenous Peoples and Ontario. With contributors from across the province, the book analyses the political institutions of Ontario, key areas such as gender, Northern Ontario, the intricate Ontario political economy, and public policy challenges with the environment, labour relations, governing the GTA, and health care. Completely refreshed from the earlier edition, it emphasizes the evolution of Ontario and key public policy challenges facing the province. In doing so, The Politics of Ontario provides readers with a thorough understanding of this complicated province.

Toronto Sketches 8

Author : Mike Filey
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459712587
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Toronto Sketches 8 written by Mike Filey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toronto Sun columnist Mike Filey is back with Toronto Sketches 8, the series that captures the people, politics, and architecture of Toronto's past with photographs and anecdotes that will change the way you see the city forever. The book brings us back to the time of Toronto's original horse-drawn streetcar, the construction of Maple Leaf Gardens, and other memories of Toronto, many of which show how history repeats itself, as in the gas price wars of the early 20th century or the debate in 1911 over building a bridge to Toronto island.

How Rob Ford Happened

Author : The National Post
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443435899
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book How Rob Ford Happened written by The National Post and published by HarperCollins Canada. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wealth of articles written by by National Post journalists including Christie Blatchford, Jonathan Kay, Andrew Coyne, Chris Selley and more, How Rob Ford Happened examines the precipitous rise and calamitous fall of one of the most controversial public figures in Canadian political history. From his early days as a crusading suburban city councillor to his reign as Mayor of Toronto and his eventual crowning as the city’s clown prince, the National Post presents a history of Rob Ford with all the warning signs, red flags, enthusiasms, controversies and scandals that have led to our current mayoral mess.