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The past few months have seen quite a lot written about Toronto, and not only in connection with Rob Ford.


  • That said, A Damn Fine Exile did feature in November at the height of the Rob Ford media controversy a limited defense. I do agree with the author that Toronto--specifically Old Toronto--hasn't handled amalgamation well.

  • On a related note, Torontoist's Kevin Plummer examined at length a 1913 proposal by Toronto politician Samuel Morley Wickett to establish a regional federation of municipalities akin to the Metropolitan Toronto federatoion abolished by amalgamation.

  • Other greater Torontoist essay by Plummer include his biography of self-made man, mayor and Cabbagetown native R.J. Fleming and a study of the 1923 collapse of the badly-run and worse-supervised Home Bank.

  • As Toronto dug out from the icestorm, blogTO revisited the infamous snowstorm of 1999.

  • Torontoist's Peter Goffin mapped the unsettling correlations between low income, low educational achievement, and visible minority populations. The Three Torontos paradigm remains worryingly relevant.

  • The celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives was the subject of a happier post.

  • Toronto transit writer Steve Munro has written extensively about subjects as various as routes for a subway in Scarborough, results of a survey on the unreliability of different routes, and--most recently--the poor sense of advocating for sprawl.

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