Mayoral Race • Green and gritty: Candidates talks about the environment [ Toronto Star ] • Smitherman targets environmental jobs [ Toronto Star ] • Fiorito: Dumb mistake or just plain sick? [ Toronto Star ] • Feldman endorses Rossi for mayor [ Toronto Star ] • No need for recall [ Toronto Star ] • Smitherman vows a greener city [ Toronto Sun ] 2010 Election • Outspoken city politician Howard Moscoe packs it in [ Toronto Star ] • Veteran Toronto councillor Howard Moscoe won't defend seat [ Globe & Mail ] • It's debate-apalooza! [ Globe & Mail ...

Mayoral Race • Let voters fire mayor mid-term, Rossi says [ Toronto Star ] • Heritage grants 'unfair,' Rossi says [ Toronto Star ] • Rossi's mayoral campaign struggling to get off the boards [ Globe & Mail ] • Mayoral candidates face off on heritage [ Globe & Mail ] • Pantalone to police union: don't endorse me [ National Post ] • Smitheran promises more protection for Toronto heritage buildings [ National Post ] • Mayoral candidates debate heritage [ Toronto Sun ] • Smitherman's plan to save city's heritage [ Toronto Sun ] • Rossi promises voters right ...

It’s not often that candidates for City Council are given the opportunity to run without an incumbent in the ward. This year there are eight wards with seats ripe for the picking. This post is the second in a series on the candidates in these contested wards, and the key issues in the neighbourhoods they seek to represent. Ward 2 – Etobicoke North Ward 2 is bordered by Highway 427 in the west, Dixon Road in the south, and the looping, twisting Humber River to the north and east. The ward includes pockets of marginalized areas and very wealthy neighbourhoods, as well as industrial lands. The Candidates: This is Rob Ford’s ward, and the biggest story so far is his brother Doug's announcement that he will run for the mayoral candidate's vacated Council seat in Ward 2. It's a bone of contention for other candidates; Rajinder Lall insists that a seat in City Council shouldn’t be a “dynasty,” while Andrew Saikaley argues that a Council candidate should not also be the campaign manager of a mayoral candidate. Here's a look at some of the people lining up to replace Rob Ford:

Mayoral Race • Ford tapping into suburban fury, poll finds [ Toronto Star ] • Spin doctor Kinsella joining Rossi campaign [ Toronto Star ] • Ford's vote for sole-source contracting called hypocritical [ Toronto Star ] • Polls do not a mayor make [ Toronto Star ] • Hume: Poll reflects a clash of cultures [ Toronto Star ] • Persichilli: Toronto's future, not Ford's past, should be the issue [ Toronto Star ] • Moscoe for mayor? [ National Post ] • Furious George wants to tap into Ford's base [ Toronto Sun ] • Mayoral hopefuls - except ...

Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. With the election well underway, Vicki Smallman investigates the mayoral candidates and their potential uses of lawn signs in promoting their campaign. Lawn signs can be an expensive and non-environmentally friendly option in promotion, but are the traditional method in spreading the word. With church congregations moving out of the city, churches are being secularized and re-purposed in order to preserve the ...

Name: Nathan Phillips Square Farmers' Market Location: The Square Date & Time: Wednesdays, 10:00am - 2:00pm, June 2 - October 13 # of Booths: 20-25 Walking into Nathan Phillips Square always has a different meaning for people. Whether they are headed to work, to get married, or for an event in the square, it changes daily. Throughout the summer, Nathan Phillips Square is home to an outdoor market on Wednesdays, accompanied by musical events, such as Poetiks, who took to the stage for the final Fresh Wednesday’s showcase this week. While City Staff ate corn-on-the-cob, drank a fresh smoothie, bought flowers, fruit or produce, they were welcomed by the sound of poets speaking on a number of topics from Jesus to young love to racial discrimination, as well as songs from the featured artist, Motion. While the actual market is designed to work its way along the concourse in front of City Hall from the West to the East entrances, the stage and prepared foods fill the courtyard in the centre of the square. With the amount of foot traffic that usually fills the Square, plus those who came especially for the market or the featured artist, the market vendors were kept busy all morning. With a wide range of products, from meat and bread from Domenic’s to giant sunflowers or produce from Andrew’s Scenic Acres,  shoppers are given a chance to pick up essentials for the week ahead from approximately twenty vendors. One of the more popular booths was Willow Tree Farms, serving up corn and tomatoes, as well as organically certified produce. The market is in it's 20th year at Nathan Phillips Square, organized and run by Ontario Farm Fresh, an organization aimed at educating about farming in Ontario, as well as educating the public on the effects of buying local and getting people out to visit farms across the province.

Mayoral Race • Rob Ford is Mr. Popular at City Hall [ Toronto Star ] • Yours vaguely, Rob Ford [ Toronto Star ] • Torontonians put economy ahead of cutting taxes: Poll [ Globe & Mail ] • Mayoral candidate sanctioned [ Toronto Sun ] City Building • Plan to erect giant flagpole in City's Northwest end gets a lift [ Toronto Star ] • Puck will drop at the waterfront - if they find the cash[ Toronto Star ] • City's giant $8M flagpole may get lift from Viagra [ National Post ] • Despite cost warnings, city approves $88M ...

Mayoral Race • 'Rob Ford's not leading, David Miller is' outgoing mayor says [ Toronto Star ] • Pantalone the 'one choice' for mayor, Layton says [ Toronto Star ] • Hume: Miller leaves city divided as never before [ Toronto Star ] • Hepburn: 'Politics of anger' powers Toronto mayoral race [ Toronto Star ] • People care about the municipal election... after Labour day: Poll [ National Post ] • Spending, transportation leading issues in municipal election: Poll [ National Post ] • Peter Kuitenbrouwer: A jovial Miller's final meeting [ National Post ] • Councillors take shots at ...

Mayoral Race • Layton endorses Pantalone [ Toronto Star ] • Mallick: Rob Ford as mayor? Are we nuts? [ Toronto Star ] • The logic behind Rob Ford's bid to derail the 'gravy train' [ Globe & Mail ] • Giorgio Mammoliti to join zoo staff in China for panda negotiations [ Globe & Mail ] • Rob Ford most divisive mayoral candidate: poll [ National Post ] • Mayor Miller would likely win if he ran again, poll shows [ National Post ] TTC • Shakespeare on the subway elicits mixed reactions - including fright [ Toronto Star ] • ...

TTC • TTC vows action on to-do list [ Toronto Star ] • Councillors endorse transit museum [ Toronto Star ] • Put TTC back on track [ Toronto Star ] • Scathing TTC  service report fails to derail museum plan [ Globe & Mail ] • TTC told how to improve customer service 78 different ways [ National Post ] Mayoral Race • Rob Ford leads in mayor's race, poll shows [ Toronto Star ] • Rob Ford and the kick-in-the-pants brigade [ Globe & Mail ] • Last place. That's got to sting [ Globe & Mail ] • ...