For this final pre-election Councillors and Contenders and Commentators profile, The Voice of London sought out Gordon MacKenzie, a community leader whose love for this City and profound financial know-how embody the two characteristics we would most like to see in our elected representatives.
“I was born and raised in Montreal. I worked for the Royal [...]

“I think the idea of Shmuel Farhi as a bully has been fed by my passionate responses to things I think are wrong, and by the need for the media to create a story to sell papers. If you look at the record, city hall rejects far more of my ideas than they accept, so I’m apparently not a very effective bully anyway, even to those who think I am.”

Born in 1950, Bill Ross has been a Londoner all of his life, attending South Secondary School and the University of Western Ontario. He worked for Ellis-Don Construction before breaking out on his own and starting his own business in 1975, Form & Build Supply, which now has five branches throughout Ontario with its head [...]

When Jim Chapman and I first cooked up the idea of running feature interviews with a few commentators whose sensibilities were such that they could bring a worthwhile perspective to the Voice’s coverage of London’s political terrain circa 2010, the first name that popped into both of our minds was Mike Smith. A lifelong Londoner, [...]

This is the first week when we’ve added ‘Commentators’ to our Councillors and Contenders file of personality profiles. Our goal here at the Voice is not just to introduce you in a more informed way to the people who seek to represent you but to indicate those who we believe will do the most to [...]