- Action this Thursday, City allowing respite spaces to be lost
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
City allowing respite spaces to be lost despite shelters being full and directive from council to maintain respite capacity
- The Bad Trip
The Untold Story of the Spadina Expressway
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Barr to be Board Chairman
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
Ward Seven school trustee Doug Barr seems certain to become the next chairman of the Toronto School Board.
- By the people, for the people?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
A tiny group of appointed politicians is ignoring the what the people have said they want.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- A Citizen's Guide to City Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- The City and Radical Social Change
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
A collection of essays dealing with the dynamics of the new forces for social change in our urban milieu, discussing how new ideas are contributing to an urban insurgency which could lead to a new city and a new concept of citizenship.
- City Hall
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
City Hall was a bi-weekly newsletter written by Toronto aldermen David Crombie, Karl Jaffary, William Kilbourn, and John Sewell.
- Democracy loses out
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
The people can say what they want, they can vote how they want, but the bureaucrats make the decisions.
- Fighting Back
Urban Renewal in Trefann Court
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A detailed report on the conflict between city bureaucrats and residents of Trefann Court, a five-block area just east of downtown Toronto. Bent on tearing down as a step towards urban renewal, the planners and government officials met organized resistance by homeowners, landlords and tenants for over six years.
- Good Accounting is M.I.A
City budget system is obsolete: daycare is as much a capital item as bridges
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The author calls on Toronto's city hall to recognize that environmental and social programs are a kind of infrastructure in that they create stakeholders in the community. He advocates that the municipal budget treat these as such and consider them an investment rather than an expenditure.
- Google's 'Smart City of Surveillance' Faces New Resistance in Toronto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A plan to develop 12 acres of the valuable waterfront just southeast of downtown Toronto
by the government agency Waterfront Toronto and Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has sparked concerns about privacy and lack of public consultation. A recent slew of resignations from its board has made these concerns increasingly urgent and public.
- How it all adds up
$4 billion more flows out than comes back in - and that has to change if the city is to stay healthy, critics say
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
A discussion of Toronto's position within the Canadian economy, and an argument that given its' status as 'economic powerhouse' for the country, that perhaps some additional re-investment into the city is warranted.
- How We Changed Toronto
The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.
- Inclusion or exclusion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
People who advocate a vision of distinct communities that speak different languages, keep apart from each other, and communicate with the structures of the larger society only through interpreters, are doing more harm than good. What they are advocating is not diversity but entrenched division.
- Inside City Hall, The Years of Opposition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Lies Rob Ford has told
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- Mackenzie
A political biography of William Lyon Mackenzie
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
History has often dismissed William Lyon Mackenzie as a comical figure, or as the political hothead who bungled the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Former Toronto mayor John Sewell suggests he may actually be the best model this country has ever had of a responsible politician.
- The MegaCity Saga
Democracy and Citizenship in This Global Age
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
- Metro Network for Social Justice (MNSJ) newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1995
A 1990s non-profit network of organizations committed to promoting social and economic justice in Toronto.
- Movement for Municipal Reform (ReforMetro)
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
The Movement for Municipal Reform (often called ReforMetro) was created in Toronto in 1975. Its purpose was to establish and institutionalize close linkages among community organizers, left-wing city aldermen (as they were still called at that time), and their constituents (primarily in working-class wards).
- Nexus
A magazine of land, corporate and community affairs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Focusing on the financial, development, and real estate industries in the urban arena, primarily in Toronto. Published in the 1970s. Some copies are available in the Connexions Archive.
- Over the Don
Resource Type: Book
- A pricey suburban sewer plan that stinks
City pays for new pipe and the results will be flushed into our lake
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
Discussion of connecting King township to the Toronto sewer system.
- Principles governing municipal/provincial financial relationships
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
In past decades, provincial governments have generally recognized the separate nature of local government and have not acted unilaterally in the field of financial relationships, but have attempted to reach amicable agreement.
- The Real World of City Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A report about what is going on -- and what is going wrong -- in Canada's cities. Urban reneewal, public housing, downtown schools, citizen participation, highrise development, city politicians.
- Reform Metro News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Newsletter of the Movement for Municipal Reform (ReforMetro) in Toronto, published from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s. There are a number copies in the Connexions Archive.
- The Regional City
Politics and Planning in Metropolitan Areas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
- The Riot at Christie Pits
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- Sewell and Howard re-elected; Barr and Holmes for education
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
Results of the December 1976 municipal elections in Toronto's Ward 7.
- Sewell, Howard returned, Stamm loses decisively
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
The difference between the campaigns of John Sewell and Janet Howard, on the one hand, and Garry Stamm, on the other, was apparent as soon as you walked across the street from the one headquarters to the other on election night.
- Sewell, John
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Political activist and writer on municipal affairs. The mayor of Toronto, Canada from 1978 to 1980. (Born 1940).
- Solving problems the Rob Ford way
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- The Tiny Perfect Mayor
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
An analysis of Toronto city politics in the wake of the election of David Crombie as mayor in 1972.
- Toronto Council Moves to Protect City's Water from Pipeline Spills
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Toronto City Council's motion asking for emergency shut-off values on either side of the City of Toronto's major watercourses reflects increased resident pressure on the city to defend us all against environmental hazards.
- The Toronto Declaration (Toronto Stop the Cuts)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- Toronto For Sale: the Destruction of a City
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
An account of how the Toronto City Council rezoned land to maximize land densities, favoring the interests of private developers over the public in the 1970s.
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2916
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- The Trouble With Co-ops
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
The story of a pioneer co-operative housing project in downtown Toronto: Down Area Co-operative Homes, inc. (DACHI).
- Up Against City Hall
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
John Sewell describes his early life and explains how he accidentally got involved in politics. He tells of his experiences in Trefann Court, and how this opened his eyes to the realities of civic politics, and gives behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the major battles at City Hall.
- Ward 7 NDP campaigns
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
After having avoided the civic arena since the 1969 municipal election, the Metro Toronto NDP is throwing itself into local politics in the 1978 municipal election.
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