Fatima Syed is the Toronto reporter for National Observer. She was previously a reporter on the Breaking News desk for The Toronto Star, with an eye for diversity, social justice and international issues. A graduate of the University of Toronto, she earned her Masters in Journalism at Ryerson University. She was an editorial fellow at The Walrus and has written as well for Spacing and This Magazine.

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Doug Ford government cuts Toronto city council in half

“We have 25 MPs, 25 MPPs and we’re going to have 25 councillors,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in the legislature on Tuesday, emphasising again how Bill 5, also named the Better Local Government Act, is set to align the the number of wards in Toronto with the number of provincial and federal electoral districts.
By Fatima Syed in News | August 14th 2018

Toronto is fired up over Doug Ford

The announcement by Ontario’s month-old conservative government to slash the number of councillors in Canada’s largest municipality has threatened to upend a core democratic process already in full swing, say experts and candidates. The question on everyone’s minds now is what checks are in place to thwart such a reconstruction and what Toronto’s democracy could look on the other side.
By Fatima Syed in News, Politics | August 9th 2018