The Globe and Mail - John Barber Columns News Archive
The latest columns by John Barber published by The Globe and Mail
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- Hopeless in Toronto: Come on, Tories, can't you at least try?
- A love-in for Miller, the board of trade and Layton's NDP
- Legendary developer dies after 55-year career
- A tiny perfect voice warns councillors on perils of redesign
- Time for Wales watching
- Another glittering waterfront plan doomed to reality
- Let's make a deal, Annex-style
- Rent gouging threatens future of Pearson
- Overbuilt high rises fall short of the mark
- This paranoiac view is worth examining
- This paranoiac view is worth examining
- Overbuilt high rises fall short of the mark
- Rent gouging threatens future of Pearson
- Designing a city on the back of a cocktail napkin The rebuilders of New Orleans have a chance to make it 'the envy of every other city' in the U.S. But it's hardly a blank slate
- A farm family's last Christmas in Wales One of Britain's leading dairy producers tells JOHN BARBER why he's so sure his future lies in the green, green grass of Canada
- Let's make a deal, Annex-style
- Another glittering waterfront plan doomed to reality
- Howard Moscoe: entertaining, effective -- and all too permanent
- 'Stop squabbling, start praying. We all is in trouble' Welcome to The Big Uneasy. Almost four months after Hurricane Katrina, JOHN BARBER finds the stricken city nowhere near recovering from the immense devastation. The mayor has the patience of Job, but, with Washington still dragging its heels, his irate citizens look at all the rot and ruin, and tell him: You're just shuckin' and jivin'
- Time for Wales watching
- A tiny perfect voice warns councillors on perils of redesign
- There's hope for an end to gun violence
- You can call him Mr. Mayor -- or just call him lucky
- Legendary developer dies after 55-year career
- A love-in for Miller, the board of trade and Layton's NDP
- Hopeless in Toronto: Come on, Tories, can't you at least try?
- Chow, Ianno races a study in contrasts
- Local black protest model dated, Boston leader charges
- Ferry follies: From comedy to tragedy
- A farm family's last Christmas in Wales One of Britain's leading dairy producers tells JOHN BARBER why he's so sure his future lies in the green, green grass of Canada
- Designing a city on the back of a cocktail napkin The rebuilders of New Orleans have a chance to make it 'the envy of every other city' in the U.S. But it's hardly a blank slate
- A heartfelt plea to stop the violence
- Union Station deal offers hard lessons on privatizing
- A Toronto firewall? Great idea!
- Liberal Odysseus not able to keep suitors at bay
- Howard Moscoe: entertaining, effective -- and all too permanent
- A new minority government could again be a good thing
- Harris appointee resigns from ORC
- With the West in, it may be better for us to be out
- Landowners, cities prepare to cash in on Harper's pledge
- Of puritanism and the picayune
- Dim, yes, but alas, never dumb
- Stop this plane, we want to get off
- The dangerous fantasy of decadent power needs
- Profit plans invade the waterfront void
- Calamity Jane's campaign for mayoralty is misfiring
- The Toronto our kids will never know
- Opposing plant a plus politically
- What this city needs: Layton or Chow to unite the left and lead Liberals
- Fiscal fairness a distant dream in McGuinty's hostile Ontario
- In this David and Goliath match, the feud runs deep
- After St. Clair, full speed ahead for streetcar lanes
- Quack medicine won't bring fiscal cure
- A shot of juice and regional government could walk again
- A shot of juice and regional government could walk again
- Panhandling, postering and video surveillance? Forget about them
- Sparks fly over two plans for waterfront power station
- From the island-airport squabble, you'd think democracy just can't fly
- How the desperate become the 'gullible'
- What ever happened to the Yorkdale rainbow?
- Assessment cap needed to halt property-tax inequities
- TTC chief has right idea about transit priorities
- There's no escaping our suburban mistake
- There's no escaping our suburban mistake
- After St. Clair, full speed ahead for streetcar lanes
- A shot of juice and regional government could walk again
- Panhandling, postering and video surveillance? Forget about them
- NDP could lose Toronto-Danforth as Liberals rev by-election engine
- Current-value assessment has got to go
- Sparks fly over two plans for waterfront power station
- The time has come to throw my cap in the ring
- From the island-airport squabble, you'd think democracy just can't fly
- How the desperate become the 'gullible'
- Where Ben Chin went wrong
- What ever happened to the Yorkdale rainbow?
- TTC chief has right idea about transit priorities
- Pressure keeping alive alternative power plan
- Assessment cap needed to halt property-tax inequities
- T.O. can go it alone. And a good thing, too
- Costly gift from Queen's Park a dead end
- The hotel prince and the Sister Act
- Angry citizens are free to vent
- Property-tax crusade survives -- barely
- Expo 2015 is ours for the taking. Uh oh
- Will PM clean up port authority or sink in quagmire?
- Gang prevention 101: a real future, a good job
- 'State of the City' address shows image still matters
- A bolt from the blue, with heart
- Union local protests 'takeover'
- Another round in the allegations game
- Fond farewell to an urban prophet
- The foxes and the 'hounds of Hamilton' at Local 183
- Nice lid With an infusion of cool from a new American owner, the venerable hat house, Biltmore, is newly hip, says JOHN BARBER
- It's time to shed light on the rules of city shade
- I'll give a Pugly to the dialogue
- Fond farewell to an urban prophet
- Union local protests 'takeover'
- Is bald-faced lying at city hall the new normal?
- Ford's faux pas shines a light on extending council term limits
- Federal Tories paint a bullseye on the port authority

