We’re a weekend away from election day in Toronto and municipalities across Ontario.
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If you’re still debating who to vote for, check out our Vote Compass tool for guidance.
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If you’re still not sure about your Halloween costume, I’m afraid I don’t have much help for you; I’m a last-minute scrambler.
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But first up, here are six things to know as you go into the weekend:
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- Mark Carney announced a “strategic partnership” on trade and defence with Turkey as he continues looking beyond the U.S. for partners.
- Toronto Police arrested three people after a string of violent robberies, and recovered $80,000 in rare Pokémon cards.
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- “Maple washed”: Canada’s largest employer of veterans lost a massive contract to a subsidiary of an American firm by a difference of $100,000.
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- The art of protest: A pile of red bikes adorned with skulls and flowers in an Etobicoke park serves as both a sculpture and a shrine.
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After the recount, it’s three.
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And the Quebec Liberals refuse to concede.
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- Scottie Barnes surprised fans with a CN Tower hairstyle for the Raptors’ home opener — it was a surprise to him too.
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Now, let’s get this show on the road.
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Brad Bradford has represented Beaches—East York for two terms as a councillor, but the 40-year-old former city planner is unlikely to win most votes there, polls say.
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This lack of a power base in his home ward will make him exceptional in the city’s history if he wins the mayoral election Monday, as polls suggest he could.
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Senior politics reporter David Rider spoke with voters from all corners of Toronto to look at how Bradford has built a mayoral campaign base on the opposite side of the city from where he built his political career.
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Meanwhile, in Beaches—East York, the race to replace Bradford on city council is one of the most hotly contested in the city with big names vying for the seat.
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- The final debate of the mayoral campaign took place Thursday night.
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City hall bureau chief Ben Spurr rounds up how the closing arguments went.
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A rundown mansion on the Scarborough Bluffs became famous while vacant.
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But something is brewing there now, and neighbours are hopeful a “horrible waste of a beautiful property” will soon end.
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May Warren reports.
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The deadly fire at CFB Wainwright started due to military training on a grenade launcher range.
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It was deemed not to be a threat, military officials said.
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- For a while this week, it looked like the constitution was coming to get Carney, but Susan Delacourt says updated referendum numbers mean he may get to escape the bane of previous PMs.
Justice
- “I know what I saw”: New allegations from Regis Korchinski-Paquet’s mother cause chaos at the inquest into her death after she fell from a balcony during a police call.
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- Our trading relationship with the U.S. is never going back to what it used to be, Carney’s lead negotiator says.
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- Industry Minister Mélanie Joly issues a formal ultimatum to Stelco: Undo layoffs within 15 days or we’ll see you in court.
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Here’s the best thing about my neighbourhood: we can walk to Bloor Street West and find more than one butcher shop, more than one fruit market, more than one bakery, a bunch of restaurants, florists, clothing stores, even a community theatre and a library.
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It’s called Bloor West Village, and it feels like a village.
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As the Star reported this week, a lot of my neighbours are panicking because of a plan to level some low-rise independent storefronts and build a 15-storey tower.
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They worry about parking, density and height — the usual NIMBY laundry list.
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I’m not worried about any of those things.
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But I am worried, because I suspect that when the tower goes up, the ground-level retail is not going to look like the charming, tiny, independent businesses it replaces.
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It’s going to look like a forbidding glass-wall dead zone on the street.
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Because that’s how we do things in Toronto.
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Heck, look at King Street West at John: on the south side, the most charming theatre district restaurant strip of brick storefronts, which could be the photo in the dictionary illustrating “urban vibrancy.”
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We know what great urban high streets look like.
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They look like Yorkville or Queen West or Queen East or Bloor West in the Annex or Bloor West Village.
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Look at photos of great streets in cities around the world and you see similar qualities.
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But whenever we build something new, it looks like the outside of a suburban mall.
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It doesn’t have to be that way.
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Look at Manhattan, where some of the most famous streetscapes in the world are at the base of skyscrapers.
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…and 31 more, not listed.
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