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 ...

Halifax Regional Municipality Mayor Andy Fillmore, Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and Municipal Affairs Minister John Lohr ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

City councilors have asked Doug Ford to rescind strong-mayor powers from Hamilton after a contentious budget season, which some say felt undemocratic. Hamilton Spectator file photo ...

Halifax’s city council has directed the mayor to ask the Nova Scotia government for consultation on whether it is considering ...

Former mayor Brian Bowman was a champion of the e-voting system, arguing it created a real-time visual display of council members’ votes that helped citizens hold elected officials accountable.