Conference Board Of Canada President: Toronto

Toronto City Hall Dept: The former Conference Board of Canada president is using the same transportation metaphor for a symposium she is hosting next week on the future of Toronto and other large urban regions, according to The Star. But in light of Mayor Rob Ford s legal woes, a possible provincial spring election and new leadership at Queen s Park, Golden s symposium: Governance Gridlock: Solving the Problem for 21 st Century City Regions, couldn t happen at a better time and it is a happy coincidence that the influential Economist magazine featured Toronto s government gridlock in its Dec. 1 issue, says Anne Golden. Golden, now a distinguished visiting scholar at Ryerson University, began planning her invitation-only gathering of respected urban thinkers six months ago, before chaos erupted at Toronto City Hall, prorogation shuttered the provincial legislature and Premier Dalton McGuinty threw in the towel. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.