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Welcome to my campaign website.

I invite you to visit regularly to stay up to date on all the latest news and events in the campaign.

I'm fighting for a Toronto that is safe, clean, green and beautifully designed with more public space.

A Toronto that has a transit system that is affordable, accessible, and keeps our city moving.

A Toronto that has a stronger voice for tenants and homeowners, that is financially sound, and that takes local community involvement in the decision-making process seriously.

I look forward to speaking with you and to listening to your concerns, ideas and priorities before and after election day on October 25th, 2010.

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Street hockey illegal? Maybe not for long
Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:21

Boys from the Yonge Eglinton neighbourhood mix it up with a little street hockey. A city committee is looking at dropping an unenforced city bylaw that prohibits playing ball games on the street.

Boys from the Yonge-Eglinton neighbourhood mix it up with a little street hockey. A city committee is looking at dropping an unenforced city bylaw that prohibits playing ball games on the street.

Tuesday evening, five teens were playing on a quiet, leafy street northeast of Yonge St. and Davisville Rd.

“We play here pretty often in the summer — it’s never a problem,” said Christian Iriotakis, 13. A few cars passed, and each time the boys quickly moved the goalpost out of the way; most drivers smiled and waved. Christian and friend Owen Singer, also 13, just recently learned street hockey was illegal.

“No, I don’t think it’s going to stop us,” Owen said.

Out with them was school Trustee Josh Matlow. “We need to be reasonable about what we decide to criminalize in our society,” he said as he hit a green ball into the net. “Canada’s national sport being played out in the city is part of our fabric and culture. Why is this illegal?”

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Globe and Mail: Nikki Yanofsky to perform for TDSB conference
Monday, 31 May 2010 13:27

Dr. Spence introduced the idea last fall as part of this Vision of Hope, a sort of mission statement for Canada’s largest school board. Critics raised objections to the $345,000 price tag on what amounted to an educational pep rally, and trustee Josh Matlow was censured after he characterized it as a “drunken spending binge.”

The event was scaled down from full-day to a half-day, and hardcopy commemorative booklets were re-imagined in a digital format to bring the cost to taxpayers closer to $120,000.

But some critics remain concerned.

“This is a time when the board has deferred $30-million from [building] maintenance and we’re asking parents to support school closures because we don’t have funds,” said Mr. Matlow. “To turn around the next day and ask them to spend their money on a vanity affair is a slap in the face.”

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National Post: New blood
Tuesday, 25 May 2010 05:54

Mr. Matlow said new blood could end long-entrenched voting blocs and free council to take action on the city's ongoing budget woes.

"I'd like to see many new faces on council this year," he said. "If you want to really bring a new approach to how we do business at City Hall, you need to have a group of moderate, creative, thoughtful people who want to do good work here.

"There seem to be a couple of clear divisions ... an ideological, a right-wing versus left-wing split in city council," Mr. Matlow continued. "In most work environments when people have been there for many, many years -- in some cases decades -- various grievances and rivalries develop. If we can have a critical mass of fresh faces on council, there's no rivalries, there's no parties, there's no long memories of either gratitude or vengeance. It's just a new group of people who want to work together and get things done."

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Squaring Off at Yonge and Eglinton
Tuesday, 25 May 2010 05:46

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Trustee Josh Matlow (Ward 22, St. Paul’s) listens to Lydia Levin of the
Yonge Eglinton Square Coalition.
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National Post: Toronto school board set to unveil secretive $7M art collection
Tuesday, 18 May 2010 06:47

Josh Matlow, trustee for St. Paul’s, said to keep the paintings on school grounds or locked in a vault is wasteful.

“My view personally is that the TDSB should not be in the art gallery business. The school board is good at education but that’s typically where it stops its expertise,” he said.

“I think that we should reach out to other arts-oriented organizations, including perhaps the AGO and other galleries. I’d rather see these pieces accessible to both students and the general public.”

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