A study led by Western University researchers Stelian Medianu and Victoria Esses has found that visible minorities are significantly under-represented in senior leadership positions at City Halls in London and Ottawa, with Hamilton faring better.…
View More Hamilton City Hall More Diverse than Ottawa, London
“It is a struggle to be alone. I needed a friend … I came to Canada to learn the beauty of the human heart.” This is just one of several quotes from real-life stories of…
View More Celebrating Ottawa’s Newest Residents
Naheed Nenshi’s meteoric rise – from relative obscurity to being the new face of Western Canada – was fodder for international media when he first became Calgary’s mayor in 2010. Since then, he has orchestrated…
View More In Conversation with Naheed Nenshi
With Canada’s mainstream newspapers asking the mayor of Toronto to step down and humourists worldwide making a caricature of Rob Ford, it seems as though no one could conceive a single person voting him to…
View More Ford Nation: There May Yet Be Round Two
Upon moving to a new city, especially one in a country to which you’ve recently emigrated, it often takes a considerable amount of time to become acclimatized to its domestic political culture. For someone living…
View More Mayor Rob Ford: a Londoner’s View
It would seem as if sharks and undocumented immigrants are equally deserving of Toronto City Hall’s mercy. Both have been spared extreme measures, although one hopes the reprieve granted to the immigrants is not as…
View More Toronto winking at lawbreakers