In theory, the next #Toronto mayor will have access to strong mayor powers: ability to appoint & manage senior city officials + council appts & over-ride council decisions with just 9 votes
👉 In practice, they will only have access if they are sufficiently #Conservative
A Mayor Chow or Matlow won’t get to use it. A Mayor Saunders certainly will & there’s much in his campaign rhetoric to suggest that he intends to not only use it, but use it frequently
This offer for the digital edition of the Toronto Star looks pretty good. Only $2 per month for 2 months -- then $19.99 per month for the rest of the year. Much cheaper than the $4 per paper issue.
The paper does a fair bit of investigative #journalism, so it's worth supporting to help keep investigative journalism alive (the #journalists can't do it for free, plus they need the legal protection a large newspaper can provide).
The downtown #Toronto Ikea people did not even bat an eye when I walked out of there wearing my bike helmet with two furniture packages and a big box. All they said was "do you want us to take it out of the box for you?" 😅
Mayoral candidate and former cop Mark Saunders declined to participate in this evening's election debate in #Toronto.
The former police chief is Premier Doug Ford's pick for mayor and not surprisingly is taking a page out of the Ford campaign playbook.
"Talk to no-one, commit to nothing and rely on big donors to pave your way. This strategy is destroying Ontario and will destroy Toronto if he’s elected."
CodeRedTO is participating in a stakeholder session today for the Eglinton Crosstown's eastern extension. Public meetings will be held May 30, June 1, & June 7.
Studied extensively in 2009, with completed Environmental Assessment, the project was formerly called the Scarborough-Malvern LRT in the Transit City plan. The project has never had sufficient funding committed, and no full construction timeline exists.
Naveah, 14, was last seen on Friday, May 12, 2023, at 7:30 a.m., in the University Avenue and Orde Street area
Naveah is described as 5'5", 120lbs, with brown/red hair, and has brown eyes. Naveah was wearing a black T-shirt, black leggings, purple Crocs, and had a backpack....
It's official: 101 people will be listed on the ballot on June 26.
The winner inherits a huge financial problem left behind by allegedly-successful businessman John Tory, who repeatedly drained city accounts since 2014 by shrinking tax revenue relative to inflation.
The winner will either continue this trend by slashing services more, or will be legislated out of existence by Doug Ford, who wants to be mayor instead of his actual job as Premier.
Two hours remain until nominations close for Toronto's mayoral byelection.
Status at 11:53 ET:
91 candidates (plus 2 who withdrew)
32 have no public contact information listed. This means that your only way to learn about them is to visit City Hall, request to see their nomination paperwork, and write down the physical address, email address, and phone number listed.
A portion of the new addition to the Michael Garron hospital in East York (#Toronto). Out yesterday trying out an old Canon FD 50mm f/1.8 lens on my Sony A6100, so it is functioning as a 75mm equivalent. #photography#blackandwhite#monochrome
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Das 40,00€ teurer gewordene Nachfolgeticket zum 9-Euro-Ticket soll Daten melken. Zwar solle das Ticket übergangsweise nicht nur für Smartphones erhältlich sein sondern auch auf Chip-Karten und kurzzeitig auf Papier mit QR-Code, aber wichtig scheint es den Regierenden vor allem anderen, dass mit dem 49€-Ticket Echtzeit-Verkehrsdaten erhoben werden können.
Positiv klingt zunächst: "Es werde nicht gespeichert, wer von A nach B fährt, sondern nur, wie stark die Verkehrsmittel ausgelastet sind. Für die Fahrgäste könnte das ein Nutzen sein, weil die Verkehrsunternehmen so für ausreichend Kapazitäten sorgen könnten."
Allerdings: Das Ticket wird wohl nur als Abo personalisiert erworben werden können, so dass darüber anfallende Personendaten zukünftig schnell integriert werden könnten. Mit Hinblick auf den aktuellen massiven Ausbau des Überwachungsstaats und der Kontrollgesellschaft in Deutschland und der EU (digitale Personenkennziffer/RegMod, Chatkontrolle, Identifizierungspflicht, Biometrie, eIDAS uvm) ist es doch auch gar nicht die Frage ob, sondern nur wann und mit welchem Vorwand (Anschläge, Pandemie, Jugendschutz, Wahlkampf) personalisierte Datenerfassung und Polizeizugriffe kommen werden, sobald die digitale Kontrollinfrastruktur erst einmal errichtet wurde.
"...John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the #Toronto-based internet watchdog #Citizen Lab. “Once you get it, is very unlikely it will ever go away.”
Example: #Israel
"...feared internal security agency, the #Shin#Bet, was using mass #surveillance technology mobilized for #coronavirus contact tracing, against #Israeli residents and citizens for purposes entirely unrelated to COVID-19...