Non-Citizens and Ryerson City Building Institute Forum

Ryerson City Building Institute forum: The ideas were incubated and field-tested on the mayors of Toronto, Mississauga and Ajax on during a Ryerson City Building Institute forum based on the Star Divided City-United City series, according to Metro News. The biggest fireworks of the night came from a pitch to extend voting rights to landed immigrants and other non-citizens, many of whom pay taxes but are shut out of democratic decision-making and Giving non-citizens the vote, having mayors live for a while in low-income housing and making transit free before 7 a.m. were cited Wednesday as ways to bridge the Greater Toronto-Hamilton region many and deep divides. Teams of experts pitched concrete bridge-gapping ideas on the topics of access to services; housing affordability; immigration and identity; income polarization; political culture; and the transportation deficit. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.