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Photo: Vince Talotta/Toronto Star

How Toronto mayors get things done

Rob Ford’s vision for Toronto includes a casino that he claims will boost employment, tourism, and revenue for the city. This hotly-contested proposal...;

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Road to nowhere

The first pieces of concrete to fall from the elevated Gardiner Expressway came down on January 8, 1978, and they were huge—as heavy as 200 pounds,...;

Johnston vs. Beavis

That other time Toronto lost its mayor

When Toronto city councillors voted for an interim mayor on September 1, 1978, the deadlock that the local media predicted came to pass. Candidates Fred...;

Steve Paikin, David Crombie, John Sewell, Art Eggleton and Barbara Hall

What would Jane Jacobs do?

In honour of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jane Jacobs' landmark book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, four former mayors of...;