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Toronto City Council

Toronto city council: On Wednesday, Premier Kathleen Wynne said she would consider the citys requests to extend voting rights to permanent residents and adopt a system of ranked choice balloting, according to The Star. Here is a primer on the proposals, and how they stand to change the political landscape and After Toronto city council supported a pair of motions that call for sweeping changes to the citys election rules, all eyes are on the province, which must decide whether and how to put the ideas in place. I think that in a city as diverse as Toronto, looking at ways of engaging people in the democratic process is very, very important, she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.