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Marcus Gee is an award-winning international affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail, Canada's largest national daily newspaper, which he joined in 1991.

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Women too soft to run for mayor? Them's fightin' words

D oes city hall need a woman's touch? A recent column by the Toronto Star's Catherine Porter argued that city politics is still very much a man's game. The two “white middle-aged guys” expected to dominate next year's campaign for mayor – George ...

From MARCUS GEE, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: George Smitherman,  John Tory,  Barbara Hall,  Janet Davis,  Hazel McCallion

Money talks – and unions, corporations deserve to have a say

S ay you own a real-estate company in Toronto and think that Mayor David Miller's land-transfer tax is a disaster. You believe that former Ontario Conservative leader John Tory would clean up the mess at city hall and you want to donate a few hundred ...

From MARCUS GEE, Globe and Mail,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Miller,  John Tory,  Michael Walker

Toronto's neighbourhood of the travelling dinner

S tacey Daub loves her neighbourhood in the west end of downtown Toronto. She loves that she can bike to work and walk to the corner for a video. She loves the mix of people, from the older Portuguese guys who make homemade wine to the trendy young ...

From MARCUS GEE, Globe and Mail,  16 Nov 2009

Ice those sexism charges

Y ou have to give the Toronto Leaside Girls Hockey Association credit for political smarts. Finding itself fighting for ice time on the city's overbooked rinks, it pulled out that ace of aces, the sexism card. The 900-member association wrote a letter ...

From MARCUS GEE, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Miller

It's time for Torontonians to talk about tolls

C onventional wisdom holds that talking about road tolls in Toronto is the equivalent of drinking hemlock – pure political poison. But what if that is wrong? What if Torontonians are quite ready to accept toll roads if they hear a compelling argument ...

From MARCUS GEE, Globe and Mail,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Miller,  John Tory,  George Smitherman,  Ken Livingstone

Note to new candidate - it's all about the budget

m gee@globeandmail.com On the first day of a year-long campaign to become mayor of Toronto, the last thing George Smitherman wanted to talk about was the grubby question of money. This, after all, was his opening trumpet blast, not the whole symphony, ...

From MARCUS GEE, Globe and Mail,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: George Smitherman,  David Miller

'Furious George' Smitherman has to form a campaign identity

G eorge Smitherman is the biggest name to throw his hat in the ring of Toronto city politics in living memory. Seldom does a titan from a higher level of government, much less a deputy premier, deign to enter a contest usually dominated by city ...

From MARCUS GEE, Globe and Mail,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Miller,  John Tory

Vigilante shopkeeper's arrest is not a case of Canadian wimpiness

T he case of David Chen continues to generate sputtering outrage in the city of Toronto – indeed, right across the country. Mr. Chen is the Chinatown shopkeeper who allegedly chased down a man who had stolen $60 of plants from his store, tackling the ...

From MARCUS GEE, Globe and Mail,  6 Nov 2009

Time to chuck our views on recycling into the bin

The other day – Gaia forgive me – I tried to throw something out. It was an old plastic laundry hamper that was falling apart. In the bad old days, I would have put it out on the sidewalk for the garbage men to take away. In our progressive age, things ...

From MARCUS GEE, Globe and Mail,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: David Miller

Panic and blame won't help cure the flu

When bad things happen, we look for someone to blame. In the current H1N1 flu scare, the spotlight is naturally falling on public health authorities. Why weren't they ready when the second wave of the flu struck this fall? How come they told everyone ...

From MARCUS GEE, Globe and Mail,  2 Nov 2009

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