Toronto Star "One Toronto" series

The latest installment, "Toronto’s political divide is real, but it can change — especially in the suburbs," argues that the urban/suburban political divide evident in Toronto (and by extension in other metropolitan areas) is more complicated.

Toronto has been roiled for a few decades beginning with the city's amalgamation with some of its suburbs in 1998 -- before then the governments were separate but also cooperative in a metropolitan government which provided some services, then with the Rob Ford mayoralty, and now with the ascension of Rob Ford's brother Doug to Premier of Ontario and his pushing forward legislation to cut the Toronto City Council, on which he briefly served, in half, just a couple months before the election.

Other articles in the series:

-- "Part One: Are Toronto’s elites really downtown? It’s not so simple"
-- "Part Two: People used to move to the suburbs to save money. Now, nearly every corner of Toronto has downtown rent"
-- "Part Three: Toronto is more diverse than ever, but downtown is falling behind"
-- "Part Four: Meet Toronto’s ‘reverse commuters,’ the people going the other way while you’re stuck in traffic"
-- "Part Five: All of Toronto is getting older, but it’s tougher to age in the suburbs< -- "Part Six: Downtown Toronto is becoming like ‘Downton Abbey’ as service workers get pushed farther from the core"