{"id":60559,"date":"2019-09-20T09:15:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T13:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=60559"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:43","slug":"haggart-federal-leaders-should-face-tough-questions-about-torontos-smart-city-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/09\/haggart-federal-leaders-should-face-tough-questions-about-torontos-smart-city-project\/","title":{"rendered":"HAGGART: Federal leaders should face tough questions about Toronto\u2019s smart-city project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blayne Haggart, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/federal-leaders-should-face-tough-questions-about-torontos-smart-city-project-122121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece recently published in <em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> about why federal leaders should face tough questions about Toronto\u2019s smart-city project.<\/p>\n<p>Haggart writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;With the federal election campaign under way, it\u2019s helpful to have a quick and easy way to evaluate our prospective leaders\u2019 commitment to good governance and sound economic policy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I suggest a simple question: \u201cIf elected, how would you handle the Toronto Quayside development?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>For those of you who haven\u2019t been following the bizarre controversies surrounding what a Swedish colleague of mine has dubbed \u201can urban development thriller,\u201d the Quayside drama started in October 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That\u2019s when Waterfront Toronto, the tri-governmental agency responsible for developing a portion of Toronto\u2019s port lands, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterfrontoronto.ca\/nbe\/portal\/waterfront\/Home\/waterfronthome\/newsroom\/newsarchive\/news\/2017\/october\/new+district+in+toronto+will+tackle+the+challenges+of+urban+growth\">awarded a contract<\/a> to a Google sister company, Sidewalk Labs, to create a smart-city development plan in a 12-acre plot of land called Quayside.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/federal-leaders-should-face-tough-questions-about-torontos-smart-city-project-122121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blayne Haggart, Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock, wrote a piece recently published in The Conversation about why federal leaders should face tough questions about Toronto\u2019s smart-city project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,6,38],"tags":[3445,42,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60578,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60559\/revisions\/60578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}