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The Creative Class Candidate
Peter Culshaw reports on the first creative class election in The Telegraph: According to American sociologist Richard Florida, it was the “creative class” that swung victory for Barack Obama in the...
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Political Geography
Talk about post-convention bounce. A new Gallup poll has McCain now up by 10 points over Obama, 54-44. Lots of fluctuation and other polls have it much closer. Alan Brinkley opines in the Wall Street...
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Our Challenge
Calgary has become the first major city in North America with more than one million people to elect a Muslim mayor. A reader writes: I was reading the Toronto Star this morning about how Calgary...
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Naheed Nenshi, Calgary’s New Mayor
This week, Calgary elected a new mayor. His name is Naheed Nenshi. I met him almost a decade ago when he was a participant in a forum on building the creative economy I helped catalyze with CEOs for...
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No Longer One Toronto
Here’s the long version of my column published in today’s The Globe and Mail. Canadians often point to the angry red versus blue divide that is such a hallmark of American politics, with...
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It’s Not the Economy, Stupid
With the midterm elections only two weeks away and the Democrats in jeopardy, the prevailing wisdom is that the election will be a referendum on the Obama administration’s stewardship of the economy....
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Who’s Your Mayor?
Here’s a map of the final vote count for Toronto’s mayoral election this past Monday (via Torontoist). It shows the share of votes by ward. Note the strong inverted T pattern radiating out from the...
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More Toronto Election Maps
They keep rolling in (h/t Chris Hardwicke). And they continue to reinforce the depth of the class divide.
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After the Midterm Elections: Still Divided
Here’s the longer, unedited version of my column published in today’s The Daily Beast – It Wasn’t About the Economy, Stupid. The conventional wisdom among pundits, pollsters, and political analysts is...
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