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Real Estate
July 27, 2012 | 12:40 pm

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John Tory thinks there should be condos at Ontario Place (but not too many)

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Though the creep of condo towers across Toronto can feel inexorable, John Tory is insisting that Ontario Place could accomodate residential development without becoming home to a “wall of high-rise condos” (or a casino, either). Since February, the former Progressive Conservative leader has been heading an advisory panel tasked with figuring out what the heck to do with the down-at-heels amusement park, and yesterday, he released his final report (pdf), which describes a vibrant, multi-use public space with a Forum-like music venue. Here are the highlights from the report:

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July 27, 2012 | 12:40 pm

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Drinks
July 26, 2012 | 4:14 pm

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Queen’s Park shoots down corner store booze proposal

Not in Ontario (Image: Owen Byrne)

Well, that was fast. Despite corralling 113,000 signatures, a request from the Ontario Convenience Stores Association to bring beer and wine to corner stores was shot down by Ontario Liberals yesterday. In an email to the Toronto Sun, Aly Vitunski, a spokesperson for Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, adopted an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” kind of attitude, saying: “The current system balances access for both customers and suppliers with social responsibility. We take the concerns of convenience store owners seriously, but we believe the current system of selling liquor is an effective way to guard the public interest.” The Sun also quotes NDP MPP Rosario Marchese making similar noises, although Tim Hudak, at least, “didn’t reject the idea outright.” Perhaps the $1.5 billion annual dividend the LCBO pays to provincial coffers has something to do with all this? [Toronto Sun]

July 26, 2012 | 4:14 pm

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Features
July 24, 2012 | 10:00 am

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Faulty towers: who’s to blame for condoland’s falling glass, leaky walls and multi-million-dollar lawsuits

By Philip Preville | Photograph by Daniel Neuhaus | Illustrations by Bradley Reinhardt

Faulty Towers

Jan Gandhi and Omar Jabri share a love of big-city life: the people, the architecture, the fashion, the logarithmic bustle of human energy that comes from high-density, high-rise living. They first met as articling students with different Bay Street law firms, introduced by mutual friends. Together they moved to New York, where Gandhi worked as in-house counsel for MTV and Jabri as an intellectual property lawyer, and they lived in an apartment in Chelsea. Gandhi became addicted to flash-sale websites, filling her wardrobe with deeply discounted designer fashions. Flash sales are enormously popular in New York. She saw an underserved market in Toronto, so she hatched a plan to return and launch her own site.

THE FESTIVAL TOWER
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July 24, 2012 | 10:00 am

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Real Estate
June 11, 2012 | 2:10 pm

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Coming soon: updates to the Condominium Act (and two chances to air grievances) 

The provincial government is reaching out to the million condo dwellers in Ontario to help upgrade the 1998 Condominium Act into something a bit more modern. The Liberals have launched public consultations to tackle consumer protection for buyers, condo board governance, reserve fund management and dispute resolution, all of which should help owners navigate some of the less-than-awesome aspects of owning a condo (incidentally, the subject of Toronto Life’s July cover story). The idea seems stolen from inspired by Trinity-Spadina MPP Rosario Marchese’s private member’s bill to create a condo review board, which recently passed the second reading in the House and is also at the public consultation stage. So for anyone who wants to gripe about maintenance fees or shoddy balconies, this summer will provide ample opportunity. [Toronto Star]

June 11, 2012 | 2:10 pm

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Real Estate
May 11, 2012 | 4:17 pm

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A Toronto MPP is one step closer to creating a tribunal to protect condo owners

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Trinity-Spadina MPP Rosario Marchese might finally be able to push his pet legislation project through the provincial assembly. The NDPer’s proposal to create a condo review board—a tribunal that would resolve disputes among owners, condo boards, property managers and developers—passed second reading in the house yesterday and will go to a legislative committee for public hearings. Sure, Marchese has been here before—he’s tried (unsuccessfully) on three previous occasions to reform the Condominium Act—but with a minority government running Queen’s Park, he believes this time round his private member’s bill actually has a chance (all previous attempts were quashed by the then-majority Liberal government). More to the point, with more than one million condo owners in Ontario and the province’s largest city in the midst of a condo-building bonanza, the number of condo-owning voters is becoming more and more significant. [Toronto Star]

May 11, 2012 | 4:17 pm

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Politics
August 30, 2011 | 1:00 pm

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Provincial NDP goes after Toronto’s new rapidly growing demographic: condo-dwellers

(Image: Neil Ta from the Torontolife.com Flickr pool)

In the May federal election, the NDP picked up a number of seats in Toronto that nobody thought they really had a chance at back in March, sending a bunch of long-time Liberals to defeat. It looks like the Ontario New Democrats are hoping for a replay of some of that sweet, sweet voter action, touting new policies that are obviously designed to appeal to segments of the Toronto population that the provincial NDP hasn’t necessarily appealed to before. Count yesterday’s announcement from Rosario Marchese as part of that gambit: the incumbent NDP MPP for Trinity-Spadina is attempting to ingratiate himself and his party to the city’s cond0-dwelling crowd by drumming up support for a bill that would protect condo owners from dishonest building practices and last-minute changes.

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August 30, 2011 | 1:00 pm

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Politics
August 29, 2011 | 11:00 am

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Sarah Thomson puts herself on the cover of her own magazine—again 

A year and a half ago, Sarah Thomson received her fair share of flack for splashing her own image on the cover of Women’s Post (a magazine of which she is the publisher and CEO) during her campaign as a Toronto mayoral candidate in the 2010 municipal election. Now, as the Liberal candidate for the Trinity-Spadina riding in the upcoming provincial election, Thomson put herself on the cover once again—this time alongside the headline “Sarah Thomson weighs in on the tough choice facing Ontario voters.” Apparently, the magazine was mailed to some residents in the Trinity-Spadina catchment this week. Incumbent NDP MPP Rosario Marchese responded: “All I can say is I wish I had my own newspaper.” Read the entire story [National Post] »

August 29, 2011 | 11:00 am

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Politics
August 25, 2011 | 1:30 pm

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Five things we learned—or relearned—about Giorgio “Hot Wheels” Mammoliti from Ed Keenan’s profile in The Grid

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In the months since Rob Ford took office, Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti has become the mayor’s de facto party whip, wielding his all-powerful thumb—up signals a yay, down a nay—to rally Ford supporters on any given vote in the council chamber. Combine that with his unyielding and very public hatred of “communists” and it’s easy to forget that he was once an active union member, an NDP MPP and one of Rob Ford’s fiercest critics (these days we like to think of him as a “reformed commie”). In his profile of Mammoliti in The Grid, Edward Keenan reminds us of all this, and adds some other juicy details he’s dug up. Five things we learned about Hot Wheels, after the jump.

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August 25, 2011 | 1:30 pm

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Random Stuff
March 31, 2011 | 12:06 pm

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MPP Rosario Marchese floats private member’s bill destined to make Doug Ford very, very angry

Marchese v. Ford

Only days after the City of Toronto voted not to further restrict the sale of sugary pop through vending machines on city properties (with Doug Ford’s memorable endorsement of free-market obesity-mongering), an MPP has introduced a bill that must reek of what Ford called “socialism at its best”: Trinity-Spadina incumbent Rosario Marchese wants to ban junk food advertising that targets children.

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March 31, 2011 | 12:06 pm

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Politics
March 9, 2011 | 1:26 pm

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Sarah Thomson makes her MPP candidacy, riding and party official

Sarah Thomson picks Big Red (Image: Tsar Kasim)

End the rumours, here are the facts: Sarah Thomson, one-time candidate for mayor and then champion for anyone-but-Ford, is running for the Liberals in the October provincial election in the Trinity-Spadina riding. In a move that certainly won’t invite comparisons to Sarah Palin, Thomson announced her plan on her Facebook page (log-in required). Thomson will be going up against longtime NDP MPP Rosario Marchese. The man will not be an easy one to defeat. Thomson’s name recognition from last year’s election may help her, but it’s still going to be a long, tough campaign. The Informer asked Thomson why she decided to run in another election so soon after the municipal one. Her answer, and Marchese’s retort, after the jump.

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March 9, 2011 | 1:26 pm

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Politics
March 3, 2011 | 11:01 am

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Sarah Thomson and Liberals continue mating dance: she’ll run in whatever seat the party can find for her

The Toronto Star, having already reported that Sarah Thomson was going to run for the Ontario Liberals in Parkdale-High Park, is now reporting (whoops!) that Thomson will in fact be running in Trinity-Spadina. According to “insiders,” she’s already been assured that her nomination will be uncontested. So, while her choice of political parties hasn’t changed, her odds of success might have.

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March 3, 2011 | 11:01 am

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