Mariana Valverde

Senior Fellow, Blogger
Professor
Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto

Mariana Valverde is an internationally renowned expert on urban law and governance. She is the author of seven books including Everyday law on the street: city governance in an age of diversity (2012), based on Toronto research. She is a professor at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her most recent research project was on the governance of public-private infrastructure partnerships, mostly in Ontario.

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Blog December 19, 2022

Strong Mayor, Weak Democracy

Much criticism has been aimed at Toronto mayor John Tory and Ontario premier Doug Ford over the unprecedented powers given to Tory and to all future mayors of Toronto by the provincial legislature. Since Toronto has in recent years had such mayoral luminaries as ‘don’t want to be boiled in a pot by cannibals’ Mel Lastman as well as crack-using Rob Ford, one can only wonder what ‘evidence’ was gathered to support giving Toronto mayors additional powers.
Mariana Valverde
Freedom of Expression & Its Limits
Blog September 9, 2022

Playing Hide and Seek with Public Records

An Ontario Divisional Court decision on a six-year-old battle at York University about secrecy in university real estate projects was published on September 1, 2022. The decision in York University Development Corporation vs. Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario et al. ended a long game in which the University tried to hide records that were legally accessible to the public.
Mariana Valverde
Access-to-Information