Rocco Rossi says he would bring Toronto’s “failing” transit system into the 21st century with the Presto smart card.

Councillors on the TTC board say his choice of a technology is premature, but on Tuesday, July 20 the mayoral candidate said people running the system – and the rest of the city – have chosen the status quo over change and “let us down.” Read More

Mayoral candidate shares ideas for Etobicoke, rest of city

Mayoral candidate George Smitherman chose a familiar place to kick off his campaign walk across the city on Monday.

Smitherman led a group of supporters and journalists on a campaign walk starting from Etobicoke’s Centennial Park, heading along Eglinton Avenue West, sharing tidbits from his earlier years during the long journey to Weston Road. Read More

Mayoral candidate Rob Ford says respect for Toronto taxpayers starts with getting the next crop of city councillors to work as hard as he does.

The Etobicoke councillor had said he would cut the number of councillors in half, from 44 to 22. Read More

Rocco Rossi brought a brush and can of paint to Jarvis Street to show what he’d do to its new bike lanes if he becomes mayor.

“They will be painted over,” Rossi said Thursday, July 15, near the corner of Wellesley Street for a campaign stop denouncing the lanes, to be applied the next day, as “sheer madness.” Read More

George Smitherman brought reporters up to a downtown penthouse terrace Tuesday to stand up for a “strong and dynamic” part of Toronto – its financial services sector.

With Bay Street’s towers looming in the haze behind him, the mayoral candidate said he was putting the federal government “on notice” that Torontonians expect a new national securities regulator to be located here. Read More

The Toronto Transit Commission should have looked farther afield than York Mills and Yonge Street for its new, consolidated headquarters, according to mayoralty candidate Rocco Rossi.

“My position would be that if we’re really going to think about solving the issues of ghettoized neighbourhoods – I would say I’m going to move the site to Victoria Park near Danforth Avenue, near Crescent Town,” said Rossi, during an hour-long editorial board meeting with Toronto Community News this week. Read More