Year: 1954
Summary: Encouraging citizens to vote.
Year: 1931
Summary: The problems of the modern city are more complex than those of a hundred years ago. City leadership must focus on continuous civic planning, and avoid short-sightedness.
Year: 1927
Summary: List of Toronto City officials and contact information
Year: 1914
Summary: Recommendations for civil service appointments based on merit, record, and classification/standardization of positions.
Year: 1917
Summary: If city reports of actual and proposed expenditures presented the annual bills as divided by totals, departments, and functional divisions, it would enable fact studies of the civic service and the city's annual bill for salaries and wages. Advocates procedural reform for salary increases and promotions.
Year: 1950
Summary: Analsis of voting trends in the last election.
Year: 1919
Summary: Responses to Effective Voting Story No. 1: Did You Vote in the Last Municipal Election? This bulletin suggests that a Toronto Voter's League might be able to address some of the issues raised herein.
Summary: Summarizes the aim, membership, organization, and activities of Voters Leagues in Boston, Chicago, and Milwaukee, to demonstrate the benefit of such organizations.
Year: 1975
Summary: Discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of directly electing city mayors vs. selecting from the elected members of council.
Year: 1916
Summary: This publication highlights the need for an independent citizen research bureau (such as the Bureau of Municipal Research) to inform fellow citizens and to keep municipal government accountable when it comes to spending taxpayer dollars. Additionally, the Bureau outlines some of their near and long-term goals in improving and modernizing city administration and planning.
Year: 1947
Summary: A listing of Toronto City officials and personnel, including contact information
Year: 1925
Summary: A call to vote and an urging to voters to adequately educate themselves on the issues in preparation.
Year: 1935
Summary: Outlines issues in the upcoming municipal election. Includes a section of questions that citizens may put to their respective candidates, with a specia focus on issues of a balanced budget and the reduction of the number of civic departments.
Year: 1926
Summary: A call to citizens to come vote due to the important issues on the table relating to the city's finances.
Year: 1951
Summary: Analysis of voter turnout in the last elections.
Year: 1939
Summary: Scan of major elections issues. Notes that those elected will oversee a $36 million budget, as well as additional oversight of a water works project worth $3 million. Suggests that the city extend council term limits to 2 years.
Year: 1959
Summary: Analysis of voter turnout in Toronto and suburbs.
Year: 1941
Summary: Highlights issues in upcoming elections, especially the need for retrenchment in order to support the war effort.
Year: 1930
Summary: This publications suggests the ways in which the city can improve the voting system and voter turnout. Comparisons to other cities are provided.
Summary: Survey about voter turnout in the last municipal election.
Year: 1944
Summary: Highlights the importance of voting in the upcoming municipal elections. Suggests that voters should be involved in elections at the stage of candidate selection and not only in the actual voting. Provides a list of questions that one may put to candidates running in the election.
Year: 1934
Summary: Argues that amalgamation of related departments under one auspice would be beneficial to the city, and should be done when an opportunity such as the retirement of a head of department occurs.
Year: 1943
Summary: A report on 20% voter turnout in elections and criticism thereof. Provides an analysis of civic election results, and questions whether the results of the election would have been different if more people had voted, and whether or not the release of preliminary budget figures before the election would have made a difference in voter turnout.
Summary: Analysis of voter turnout throughout the Toronto area.
Summary: Analysis of voting patterns and discussion of the need to keep families within municipal boundaries and prevent sprawl.
Year: 1928
Summary: Suggests better candidate selection can lead to greater engagement of the public and better performance of the council
Summary: The Bureau suggests that low voter turnout could be improved by advancing all of the ideas about elections - longer terms, change of system, and the abolition of wards.
Summary: Defines relevant issue in the upcoming election - including the fact that the city will be undertaking a large programme of capital expenditures, issues of municipal taxation, the domination of "special interests" from each ward, and the administration of important city services.