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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on October 31, 2014 at 3:00am

How unfortunate. Hopefully there will be enough progressive voices to find a reasonable balance. There's such a huge need for better accommodations for peds, cyclists and transit users there.
 
Cameron 7.5 mi said:

They're down but not out. Despite all of his problems, Rob is still a city councilman and dispute a late campaign start and the bad press of being Rob's brother, Doug didn't get completely trounced in the mayoral race. The fact that they're hanging on at all after the year they've had speaks to the power of their constituency.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Lazzaro on March 22, 2016 at 8:03am

Update:  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rob-ford-1.3489457

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Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on March 22, 2016 at 9:06am

I wonder how Toronto's cycling community has gotten on in the last year. I hope good changes did take place. 

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Permalink Reply by Michelle S on March 22, 2016 at 12:56pm

I think there is cautious optimism that the new mayor, John Tory, "gets it" that bicycling is a solution, not a problem.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-comes-to-grips-...

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Permalink Reply by Tony Adams on March 23, 2016 at 2:42am

Also it probably can't hurt that the long destructive reign of Steven Harper is over. We whine (and rightfully so) about the shortcomings of our two party system, but our more sensible neighbor to the north suffered (and the environment of the entire planet suffered) from decades of selfish, short sighted (aka conservative) leadership from its prime minister who would not have had the post if the liberal/progressive vote had not been consistently split between the two major left parties.

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