Toronto city council will not ask the Ontario government to abandon plans to impose a strong mayor system on Toronto, councillors decided on Thursday. Instead, they decided to ask the province to ...

Throughout his 10 years on Toronto City Council, Rob Ford, today the clear front-runner in Toronto’s mayoralty race, has been at odds with most of the other 44 members of council. As mayor, he ...

Explainer: 'Strong mayor' system would give more CEO-type powers to Ottawa's head of council The provincial government could add more cities to the strong mayor system, perhaps even during the ...

Earlier this year, I had the privilege and responsibility of chairing the mayor’s fiscal review panel, working closely with five other able and dedicated Torontonians, all of us volunteers, to ...

TORONTO - Ontario plans to bring in a so-called “strong mayor” system for Toronto and Ottawa — and is considering expanding that to other cities — as it looks to put more power into the ...

Several words and phrases appeared in most of the submissions we received. They included appalled, shocked, dismayed, ...

Toronto City Council will formally ask the Ford government to hand it greater control and autonomy over a number of matters as the province considers handing the mayor more executive authority.

The mayor doesn’t need council’s support to commit to the provincial target, nor its permission to take on the extra mayoral powers, but said he understands the concerns about doing so.

Tim Houston is "entirely within his mandate" to get involved in the decisions of municipal governments, said Halifax's mayor Friday, two days after the premier threatened to overturn a decision by ...

Shelburne Town Council has approved amendments to the budget process schedule for 2026 in response to strong mayor powers.

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