Zack Taylor notes that some city wards are a lot more populous than others

March 6, 2012

Hume: Fixing Toronto’s democratic deficit

By Christopher Hume, Published On Sun Mar 04 2012

Even without robo-calls and winner-take-all elections, Canada’s claim to democracy is growing strained.

Toronto is no exception. When Zack Taylor of the University of Toronto Cities Centre did a little number crunching recently, his worst suspicions were confirmed: It seems some parts of the city are a whole lot more democratic than others.

According to Taylor, the main factor is population, or rather, differences in the populations of the city’s 44 wards. It turns out that the discrepancy between the most populated and least populated wards is much larger than many realize.

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