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Get thee north of Steeles!

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Philip Preville

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Peter Kent has switched ridings. Last time, he ran in the heart of Old Toronto and lost. This time he’s hightailed it to the 905. Which tells you everything you need to know about how the Tories perceive their electoral chances within Toronto city limits.

If you were Jim Flaherty, would you waste precious government dollars, whether legitimately spent on useful public programs or pork-barrelled to pals, on 22 ridings you’ll never win?

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Philip Preville

Veteran freelance writer Philip Preville lived much of his life in Montreal and Edmonton before he was lured, like so many Torontonians before him, by the promise of more work and a better living. A National Magazine Award winner and former Canadian Journalism Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, Preville writes Toronto Life’s politics column. He lives with his wife and one-year-old son in Riverdale, just close enough to the Don Valley Parkway that he can hear it when he steps outside his house—but just far enough away that it doesn’t keep him awake at night. On his office wall hangs a 1938–39 press pass belonging to his grandfather, Elias Gannon, who wrote for the Montreal Star.


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