Preville on Politics

Speaking of budgets...

Posted on March 19, 2007 by Philip Preville

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This morning’s Star featured a good piece by Donovan Vincent about city councillors’ annual expense tallies, naming council’s big spenders and penny pinchers. It’s one of those for-the-record stories that any decent city paper must publish, so kudos to them. But oh, how I wish newspapers would wake up to the reality of the Internet and tell readers where they can find the list for themselves, so they can look up their own councillor.

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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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