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Hello Everyone，
蒋建华/James向各位问好。请原谅我以这种方式与各位联络。若有兴趣请联络我。
经我的老师介绍，在过去几个月里我参加了几次芭芭拉的市长竞选活动（免费）。感觉挺好，颇有收获，现与大家分享。
1。这种场合下与本地人交往，没有矮人一等的感觉。竞选希望得到每个人的支持（无论你有否选举权），他们很nice, patient,(ESL会发挥得很好), 加上点心饮料,气氛很好。口语超常发挥，迅速进步。
2。你的意见真正得到表达、重视，并影响政策（移民安顿，子女教育，工作支持，学历资质认可），造福于我们自己。
3。你若去多几次，会遇到一些常去的人（竞选的Volunteers，很多是退休的）。几次交谈后，会有更深入的交流（如工作信息，生活指导，困难帮助）直至成为长期朋友。真正地networking。
4。有机会同现在或未来的名人、市长合影留念，促进你现在或将来的事业和生意的发展。
5。有机会要求做Volunteer，积累经验并加深朋友之间的了解。这比正式工作轻松，交谈多，有咖啡餐点。
参加这些活动，既直接参与和了解主流社会使自己获益，又帮助他人、建立了友谊，不妨利用闲暇一试。如有兴趣，请回信。我将提供更多信息。三月十二日，正好有个大型活动。
蒋建华/James (416) 222-8813
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:42:53 -0500
Hello Everyone,
Thanks for your recent positive response.
Please find the attachment for more details about Barbara Hall; you also can refer to www.barbarahall.com and www.chineseaction.com (Chinese version) for more information about an election. March 12 event introduction is there, too.
For your convenience, next Monday, I am going to help enroll your email in her list so that you can get the Newsletter on time. Certainly, I will exclude your email address if you do not like and let me know before next Monday.
I know some of you have already had very good ideas in improving our life standard. I would like to forward your suggestions or petitions to a councillor, MPP or MP, or introduce you to them. Your action must benefit the Chinese community and all Canadians.
I will be happy to answer your any questions.
Warmest regards.
James Jiang.
Subject: The March 12 event, Traffic
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 19:02:21 -0500
Hello everyone,
If anyone of you do not want drive there or worry about parking, Please contact me, I still have some seats available. I am living at Bayview and Sheppard, steps away from the TTC stop or subway station on the Sheppard. There are a lot of visitor parking spaces here.
Please be reminded it will be on March 12, Wednesday.
Good luck!
James J.
Data about 1997 Mayoralty Election
Mel Lastman: 387,626 votes (51.8%)
Barbara Hall: 345,811 votes (46.2%), 2,000 active campaign volunteers, 30,000 registered supporters, 8,000 financial contributors, $1.4 million raised.
Barbara Hall Introduction
Jettison the image of Barbara Hall rubbing Bare Naked Ladies the wrong way on Nathan Phillip’s Square. Barbara was not the City of Toronto mayor who stopped the Canadian rock artists from performing in 1991. That is June Rowlands’ legacy undressed.
Barbara Hall was better known for her stability, sense of purpose and thoughtful forays into building communities - accolades earned and clearly reflected in her significant record as Toronto mayor from 1994 to 1997.
First elected to Toronto council in 1985, Barbara Hall was preceded to City Hall by her reputation as an intuitive, community-suave and hard-working champion for diverse coalitions in Toronto. With a passion and flair for civic affairs, Barbara cultivated a strong, loyal following. She was a busy Toronto lawyer who also served the city as co-founder and teacher at Point Blank School, a street worker at Central Neighbourhood House and a youth worker at the YWCA.
On Toronto council, serving the downtown’s Ward 7 for nine years, Barbara Hall’s experience and drive proved to be catalysts for solutions to complex issues.
Barbara Hall quickly developed into a mature, steady leader. Barbara embodied Toronto’s potential to be a great city. She didn’t hesitate to make her mark on the arts, homelessness, crime and economic development. Barbara was smart and thoughtful, doing more, with few resources, for all the right reasons. People listened to what she had to say.
Barbara Hall emerged as an enemy of tokenism, inclined to consult and recruit the support of people otherwise convinced they had been shut out of municipal decision-making. Barbara made champions of constituents and political peers alike. She led others to become leaders in their communities.
Even as the new Mike Harris government cursed Toronto with angry rhetoric and policies of provincial downloading in the mid-1990s, Barbara Hall earned the Ontario administration’s grudging respect. She wasn’t dogmatic, partisan or parochial. Barbara was an inclusive Toronto mayor, uniting a diverse urban constituency around a common agenda for action. It was difficult for Harris to ignore her, for she was a force to be reckoned with.
At about the same time, in the glare of tremendous mega-city hype, Barbara Hall’s patience and poise also earned her the respect of her peers on Toronto council. Things got off to a rocky start. Nine of 17 council members - lead by Tom Jakobek – did not even attend Barbara’s inaugural council meeting as mayor. The dissenters went on to foster a 9-8 mentality on council that was reflected in counter-productive voting patterns.
While the divisiveness on council and at Queen’s Park seemed perversely related, they were not Barbara Hall’s undoing. She thrived on bringing people together. Barbara’s vision of Toronto was based on partnerships – at all levels - and she applied her philosophy with skill, grace and charm.
After one year as mayor, the council under Barbara Hall turned the corner. She commanded most members’ respect, as important votes were more frequently decided by 12-5 or 13-4 margins. Council understood the mayor’s ideals. People came to recognize Barbara excelled at finding common ground on issues, displaying uncanny judgment on complex matters. She led people toward decisions that a majority could live with. Many of those touched by Barbara’s work at least appreciated her leadership in a fair and open process.
Time after time, Barbara Hall rose above the fracas to do the right thing. Barbara worked closely, for example, with Jakobek to redevelop prime real estate on the Greenwood Raceway lands in Toronto’s east end Beach neighbourhood.
While Barbara Hall asserted her leadership skills on the political stage, she also proved to be an adept city manager. Barbara broke down silos dividing the bureaucracy and put the municipal civil service to work for the people.
Barbara Hall’s real genius in the 1990s was her ability to balance city budgets. Barbara held the line on taxes, while protecting core, or essential city services and guarding the social cohesion that many of us take for granted. Much to the chagrin of Toronto council’s NDP caucus, Barbara was more of a fiscal conservative than people give her credit for.
Strong, forthright, principled and honest, Barbara Hall’s legacy also brought diverse groups – politicians, developers and activists – together to rejuvenate derelict parts of the city. Barbara built communities when they seemed to be under attack on all fronts. She was widely praised for leading the construction and revitalization of communities like those around Old Fort York, St. Lawrence Market and the Gooderham-Worts Building.
Barbara Hall’s signature community project was The Kings Revitalization. She took a hands-on approach. Barbara built a coalition – with Jane Jacobs, Ken Greenberg and others – that convinced council to repeal out-of-date, repressive zoning bylaws. This ultimately turned derelict neighbourhoods around King and Parliament streets and King and Spadina streets into models for urban renewal around the world. The Kings Revitalization ultimately generated hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in the two communities, sparking thousands of jobs.
The Kings Revitalization project was a landmark effort that garnered international acclaim.
However, Barbara Hall also had a deft touch for nurturing small projects that had big impacts on Toronto. Toronto’s Homeless Initiative Fund illustrates her flair. The fund supported community groups that, for example, provide street patrols or translation services in shelters. One small grant transformed Dufferin Grove Park. It was used to build a brick oven in the park, inspiring the community to reclaim its open space from the grip of criminal activity. These folks now frequently pool their resources and bake bread and pizza for each other.
Similarly, Barbara Hall established a Youth Employment Fund that was an incubator of sorts for programs like Toronto’s graffiti transformation project.
Barbara Hall’s sweet spot was housing and services for the homeless. It is her natural, instinctive issue. She is a tireless advocate who has worked on all aspects of this issue her entire adult life. Barbara championed bylaws protecting Toronto’s inventory of affordable apartments, for example, preventing conversion of rental units to condominiums. Barbara stood up to developers and demanded they live up to obligations to provide affordable housing.
Barbara Hall was a catalyst for Toronto’s safe cities initiative in 1989. She rolled up her sleeves to work alongside community leaders and the police. Together they forged a strategy to keep neighbourhoods safe.
A leader on Toronto’s Safe City Committee, Barbara Hall played a pivotal role in developing the Safe City Report. All 37 of the recommendations in the report – including one to establish a permanent Safe City Committee – were implemented. The initiative ensures policing is more in tune with neighbourhoods. It also establishes revolutionary guiding principles for urban planning. An international model for building safe open spaces, the Safe City Report was, for example, a blueprint for Toronto’s Roundhouse Park at the foot of the CN Tower.
Barbara Hall was a loyal advocate of the arts in Toronto. She recognizes that arts funding is an economic stimulator, considering the millions of dollars it attracts to the local economy. Barbara fought to maintain and expand arts funding. She is an avid promoter of arts and cultural events – big or small - throughout Toronto.
In recent years, Barbara Hall maintained strong relationships and an unflappable commitment to Toronto. Barbara has just completed a term as chair of the Steering Committee for the National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention. It was established to provide leadership for Canada’s Minister of Justice, Attorney General and Solicitor General. With Barbara at the helm, the steering committee promoted integrated action in support of community-based crime prevention efforts.
Today, it’s painfully clear that Toronto still needs Barbara Hall. The quality of life has dipped in the last six years. There’s more garbage blowing around on the streets, increased homelessness, a stalled economy, waning support for the Toronto’s arts scene and a general feeling of malaise and dissatisfaction. Mike Harris’ vision of amalgamating Toronto did not work. The cities and boroughs are still divided.
Barbara Hall is the only person with the experience and wherewithal to tackle the complicated issues that have lead to Toronto’s decline. Toronto is being torn apart by negative haggling over suburban and urban issues. Toronto needs Barbara to develop an upbeat, problem-solving agenda that celebrates the diversity and strength of this city.
Barbara Hall has the courage to cut through the personal agendas that are already emerging and lead us all toward the greatness we have come to know and expect of our city. She respects our communities’ interests.
Barbara Hall can turn the decline around.
PS: Barbara Hall was budget chief for three years and didn't raise tax either.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
Hello Everyone，
蒋建华/James向各位问好。请原谅我以这种方式与各位联络。若有兴趣请联络我。
经我的老师介绍，在过去几个月里我参加了几次芭芭拉的市长竞选活动（免费）。感觉挺好，颇有收获，现与大家分享。
1。这种场合下与本地人交往，没有矮人一等的感觉。竞选希望得到每个人的支持（无论你有否选举权），他们很nice, patient,(ESL会发挥得很好), 加上点心饮料,气氛很好。口语超常发挥，迅速进步。
2。你的意见真正得到表达、重视，并影响政策（移民安顿，子女教育，工作支持，学历资质认可），造福于我们自己。
3。你若去多几次，会遇到一些常去的人（竞选的Volunteers，很多是退休的）。几次交谈后，会有更深入的交流（如工作信息，生活指导，困难帮助）直至成为长期朋友。真正地networking。
4。有机会同现在或未来的名人、市长合影留念，促进你现在或将来的事业和生意的发展。
5。有机会要求做Volunteer，积累经验并加深朋友之间的了解。这比正式工作轻松，交谈多，有咖啡餐点。
参加这些活动，既直接参与和了解主流社会使自己获益，又帮助他人、建立了友谊，不妨利用闲暇一试。如有兴趣，请回信。我将提供更多信息。三月十二日，正好有个大型活动。
蒋建华/James (416) 222-8813
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 18:42:53 -0500
Hello Everyone,
Thanks for your recent positive response.
Please find the attachment for more details about Barbara Hall; you also can refer to www.barbarahall.com and www.chineseaction.com (Chinese version) for more information about an election. March 12 event introduction is there, too.
For your convenience, next Monday, I am going to help enroll your email in her list so that you can get the Newsletter on time. Certainly, I will exclude your email address if you do not like and let me know before next Monday.
I know some of you have already had very good ideas in improving our life standard. I would like to forward your suggestions or petitions to a councillor, MPP or MP, or introduce you to them. Your action must benefit the Chinese community and all Canadians.
I will be happy to answer your any questions.
Warmest regards.
James Jiang.
Subject: The March 12 event, Traffic
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 19:02:21 -0500
Hello everyone,
If anyone of you do not want drive there or worry about parking, Please contact me, I still have some seats available. I am living at Bayview and Sheppard, steps away from the TTC stop or subway station on the Sheppard. There are a lot of visitor parking spaces here.
Please be reminded it will be on March 12, Wednesday.
Good luck!
James J.
Data about 1997 Mayoralty Election
Mel Lastman: 387,626 votes (51.8%)
Barbara Hall: 345,811 votes (46.2%), 2,000 active campaign volunteers, 30,000 registered supporters, 8,000 financial contributors, $1.4 million raised.
Barbara Hall Introduction
Jettison the image of Barbara Hall rubbing Bare Naked Ladies the wrong way on Nathan Phillip’s Square. Barbara was not the City of Toronto mayor who stopped the Canadian rock artists from performing in 1991. That is June Rowlands’ legacy undressed.
Barbara Hall was better known for her stability, sense of purpose and thoughtful forays into building communities - accolades earned and clearly reflected in her significant record as Toronto mayor from 1994 to 1997.
First elected to Toronto council in 1985, Barbara Hall was preceded to City Hall by her reputation as an intuitive, community-suave and hard-working champion for diverse coalitions in Toronto. With a passion and flair for civic affairs, Barbara cultivated a strong, loyal following. She was a busy Toronto lawyer who also served the city as co-founder and teacher at Point Blank School, a street worker at Central Neighbourhood House and a youth worker at the YWCA.
On Toronto council, serving the downtown’s Ward 7 for nine years, Barbara Hall’s experience and drive proved to be catalysts for solutions to complex issues.
Barbara Hall quickly developed into a mature, steady leader. Barbara embodied Toronto’s potential to be a great city. She didn’t hesitate to make her mark on the arts, homelessness, crime and economic development. Barbara was smart and thoughtful, doing more, with few resources, for all the right reasons. People listened to what she had to say.
Barbara Hall emerged as an enemy of tokenism, inclined to consult and recruit the support of people otherwise convinced they had been shut out of municipal decision-making. Barbara made champions of constituents and political peers alike. She led others to become leaders in their communities.
Even as the new Mike Harris government cursed Toronto with angry rhetoric and policies of provincial downloading in the mid-1990s, Barbara Hall earned the Ontario administration’s grudging respect. She wasn’t dogmatic, partisan or parochial. Barbara was an inclusive Toronto mayor, uniting a diverse urban constituency around a common agenda for action. It was difficult for Harris to ignore her, for she was a force to be reckoned with.
At about the same time, in the glare of tremendous mega-city hype, Barbara Hall’s patience and poise also earned her the respect of her peers on Toronto council. Things got off to a rocky start. Nine of 17 council members - lead by Tom Jakobek – did not even attend Barbara’s inaugural council meeting as mayor. The dissenters went on to foster a 9-8 mentality on council that was reflected in counter-productive voting patterns.
While the divisiveness on council and at Queen’s Park seemed perversely related, they were not Barbara Hall’s undoing. She thrived on bringing people together. Barbara’s vision of Toronto was based on partnerships – at all levels - and she applied her philosophy with skill, grace and charm.
After one year as mayor, the council under Barbara Hall turned the corner. She commanded most members’ respect, as important votes were more frequently decided by 12-5 or 13-4 margins. Council understood the mayor’s ideals. People came to recognize Barbara excelled at finding common ground on issues, displaying uncanny judgment on complex matters. She led people toward decisions that a majority could live with. Many of those touched by Barbara’s work at least appreciated her leadership in a fair and open process.
Time after time, Barbara Hall rose above the fracas to do the right thing. Barbara worked closely, for example, with Jakobek to redevelop prime real estate on the Greenwood Raceway lands in Toronto’s east end Beach neighbourhood.
While Barbara Hall asserted her leadership skills on the political stage, she also proved to be an adept city manager. Barbara broke down silos dividing the bureaucracy and put the municipal civil service to work for the people.
Barbara Hall’s real genius in the 1990s was her ability to balance city budgets. Barbara held the line on taxes, while protecting core, or essential city services and guarding the social cohesion that many of us take for granted. Much to the chagrin of Toronto council’s NDP caucus, Barbara was more of a fiscal conservative than people give her credit for.
Strong, forthright, principled and honest, Barbara Hall’s legacy also brought diverse groups – politicians, developers and activists – together to rejuvenate derelict parts of the city. Barbara built communities when they seemed to be under attack on all fronts. She was widely praised for leading the construction and revitalization of communities like those around Old Fort York, St. Lawrence Market and the Gooderham-Worts Building.
Barbara Hall’s signature community project was The Kings Revitalization. She took a hands-on approach. Barbara built a coalition – with Jane Jacobs, Ken Greenberg and others – that convinced council to repeal out-of-date, repressive zoning bylaws. This ultimately turned derelict neighbourhoods around King and Parliament streets and King and Spadina streets into models for urban renewal around the world. The Kings Revitalization ultimately generated hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in the two communities, sparking thousands of jobs.
The Kings Revitalization project was a landmark effort that garnered international acclaim.
However, Barbara Hall also had a deft touch for nurturing small projects that had big impacts on Toronto. Toronto’s Homeless Initiative Fund illustrates her flair. The fund supported community groups that, for example, provide street patrols or translation services in shelters. One small grant transformed Dufferin Grove Park. It was used to build a brick oven in the park, inspiring the community to reclaim its open space from the grip of criminal activity. These folks now frequently pool their resources and bake bread and pizza for each other.
Similarly, Barbara Hall established a Youth Employment Fund that was an incubator of sorts for programs like Toronto’s graffiti transformation project.
Barbara Hall’s sweet spot was housing and services for the homeless. It is her natural, instinctive issue. She is a tireless advocate who has worked on all aspects of this issue her entire adult life. Barbara championed bylaws protecting Toronto’s inventory of affordable apartments, for example, preventing conversion of rental units to condominiums. Barbara stood up to developers and demanded they live up to obligations to provide affordable housing.
Barbara Hall was a catalyst for Toronto’s safe cities initiative in 1989. She rolled up her sleeves to work alongside community leaders and the police. Together they forged a strategy to keep neighbourhoods safe.
A leader on Toronto’s Safe City Committee, Barbara Hall played a pivotal role in developing the Safe City Report. All 37 of the recommendations in the report – including one to establish a permanent Safe City Committee – were implemented. The initiative ensures policing is more in tune with neighbourhoods. It also establishes revolutionary guiding principles for urban planning. An international model for building safe open spaces, the Safe City Report was, for example, a blueprint for Toronto’s Roundhouse Park at the foot of the CN Tower.
Barbara Hall was a loyal advocate of the arts in Toronto. She recognizes that arts funding is an economic stimulator, considering the millions of dollars it attracts to the local economy. Barbara fought to maintain and expand arts funding. She is an avid promoter of arts and cultural events – big or small - throughout Toronto.
In recent years, Barbara Hall maintained strong relationships and an unflappable commitment to Toronto. Barbara has just completed a term as chair of the Steering Committee for the National Strategy on Community Safety and Crime Prevention. It was established to provide leadership for Canada’s Minister of Justice, Attorney General and Solicitor General. With Barbara at the helm, the steering committee promoted integrated action in support of community-based crime prevention efforts.
Today, it’s painfully clear that Toronto still needs Barbara Hall. The quality of life has dipped in the last six years. There’s more garbage blowing around on the streets, increased homelessness, a stalled economy, waning support for the Toronto’s arts scene and a general feeling of malaise and dissatisfaction. Mike Harris’ vision of amalgamating Toronto did not work. The cities and boroughs are still divided.
Barbara Hall is the only person with the experience and wherewithal to tackle the complicated issues that have lead to Toronto’s decline. Toronto is being torn apart by negative haggling over suburban and urban issues. Toronto needs Barbara to develop an upbeat, problem-solving agenda that celebrates the diversity and strength of this city.
Barbara Hall has the courage to cut through the personal agendas that are already emerging and lead us all toward the greatness we have come to know and expect of our city. She respects our communities’ interests.
Barbara Hall can turn the decline around.
PS: Barbara Hall was budget chief for three years and didn't raise tax either.更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net