City Council is supreme

Torontoist.com:

The story many people are writing today is about a mayoralty adrift, a powerless, rudderless leader who lost control of the most important municipal policy file a year into office and hasn’t gained it back—which is to say, no leader at all. That story is true, but there’s another corresponding one that is just as important: the one about a self-governing group of politicians who nobody thought w...ould get along, whose numbers have grown, who have banded together consistently over the past months to stake out and defend positions, who have done so at some risk to their careers, and who show no sign of backing down. It’s the story of a maturing municipal government that is coming into its own.

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