TRANSPORTATION
PICKERING AIRPORT
- Pickering airport foes prepare to fight once more [Toronto Star]
- Pickering airport gets green light, but is it needed? [Toronto Star]
- Pickering airport plan finally scheduled for takeoff [Toronto Sun]
- Ottawa pledges new GTA airport, expanded national park [Globe & Mail]
- Pickering to get airport on Pickering Lands, Flaherty confirms [National Post]
CITY HALL
- Nick Kouvalis tells Mayor Rob Ford to ‘get healthy’ [Toronto Star]
- U of T’s (astro)turf war heads to City Hall [Toronto Sun]
- Council votes to allow permanent residents to cast ballots [Toronto Sun]
- Left-leaning councillors laud congestion [Toronto Sun]
- Jaye Robinson says mayor’s office told her to stop speaking to media [Toronto Sun]
- Councillor booted from executive has no regrets [Globe & Mail]
- City council backs electoral reform [Globe & Mail]
- Councillors vote to seek end of ‘first past the post’ system in city elections [National Post]
OTHER NEWS
- Ontario teacher’s new headquarters an architectural lesson: Hume [Toronto Star]
- in the park, civility goes to the dogs: Fiorito [Toronto Star]
- TTC fires ‘director of loss prevention’ [Toronto Sun]
- Dilapidated, ‘spooky’ Spadina landmark is getting a $50-million facelift [Globe & Mail]
- Dundas street fair a watershed moment for the once grimy thoroughfare [National Post]
One comment
Re: turf war
For once, I am glad the group of right-leaning councilors knocked out councilor Vaughan. I’d be willing to bet most of the opposition of the turf come from people who do not set foot on the field, or maybe stroll along its edge at almost; and the strongest supporters are the folks who actually play on the field, not just intramural athletes, but just students and people in the area up for a pickup game now and then. I myself (UofT alumnus, an avid recreational soccer player who played quite a few games there) have generally given up playing on grass and stick with turf because it is so much safer. Yes, a well-maintained grass field is better than turf (ask those European profession soccer clubs), but do you know how much it costs to keep grass well-maintained while sustaining high-level of usage, again ask those European profession soccer clubs. You know, they spend big money, they’d never allow a bunch of students to start a pickup game any time they want, and still their fields were criticized as “potato fields” all the time. Now you think UofT can do a better job maintaining the grass better than those clubs?
Shake it off, (old) floks, the field is not there for you to reflect on the good old time, it is for the students to run around, and turf is much better for that purpose. Given the design, you can still take your stroll along the edge, on real grass.