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51 Division Constables Robyn Court, left, and Brent Larmour, right, speak with people near Seaton House, Toronto’s largest homeless shelter. Experts are struggling to explain why the crime rate is down in Toronto and the rest of Canada

Patricia McCarney hopes to keep cities database in Toronto

June 07, 2010

Do cities that have the most police officers have the least violent crime? What’s the typical voter turnout for city elections around the world? Do cities with high densities have high transit ridership?

Don’t know?

John Kirton reflects on past summits in the Globe and Mail

June 28, 2010

The last time Toronto hosted a great global summit at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Amik almost stole the show. In that splendid summer of 1988, she was the beaver brought down from cottage country with her babies to show otherwise jaded reporters flying in what the real Canada was like.

Harper consolidates his powers, writes Nelson Wiseman

July 05, 2010

The steady centralization and concentration of executive power, specifically in the prime minister and his office, is not exclusive to Canada; it has occurred in Britain, Australia, continental Europe, and elsewhere.

Nelson Wiseman worries that Parliament is being downgraded

May 05, 2010

The Harper Conservatives didn’t start the demolition of Parliament, but they have taken it to a whole new level. The question facing Canadians now is whether Commons Speaker Peter Milliken’s historic ruling last Tuesday is too late to save the furniture.

The summit junkies, U of T’s G20 Research Group, left to right: Erin Fitzgerald, student chair; Alan Alexandroff, co-director; Jenilee Guebert, director of research; and John Kirton, co-director.

John Kirton and his summit scholars gear up for G20

June 05, 2010

The first picture you see on John Kirton’s office wall is a small reminder of how much the world has changed in two decades of watching G8 summits.

Clifford Orwin Calls Quebec's Niqab Ban "Unreasonable Persecution"

March 29, 2010

Bad news comes in bunches. First there was Quebec’s Bill 94, which would refuse government services, public employment, educational opportunities and even most medical care to Muslim women wearing the niqab. Then there was the Angus Reid poll showing that 80 per cent of all Canadians agree with this measure.

G20 Expert John Kirton Comments On Jim Flaherty's Bank Reform Tactics

April 19, 2010

Jim Flaherty, the Minister of Finance, suggested yesterday he “couldn’t rule out” the possibility that the Group of 20 countries will fail to find a consensus on financial reform, just as U.S. legislators crank up efforts to overhaul their system on news of fraud charges against GoldmanSachsGroupInc.

Canada triumphs at G20, comments John Kirton

April 27, 2010

Canada came to the G20 meeting of finance and central bank officials in Washington, saw and heard from its peers, and at the end of the day conquered.

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