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• Don’t sit on the problem at new man-made beach [ Toronto Star ]
• Coveting a leash law for neighbours cat [ Toronto Star ]
• TTC speeds up Transit City plan [ Toronto Star ]
• TTC the slower way to ribbons [ Toronto Sun ]
• TTC opts to start work on three light-rail lines [ Globe and Mail ]
• City to take condo fight to court [ Toronto Star ]
• Keeping a finger on city’s purse [ Toronto Star ]
• This guy is ‘Mr. Toronto’ [ Globe and Mail ]
• Death of a salesman [ Toronto Sun ]
• Maestro of Main Street [ Toronto Star ]
• ‘Honest Ed’ Mirvish praised as ‘man of the people who made it big’ [ cbc ]
• City to study fast ferry proposal [ National Post ]
• Boat idea still being ferried around [ Toronto Sun ]
• Sometimes big things can grow our of a litter idea. Seems these panhandlers were just begging to help clean up [ Toronto Sun ]
• City appeals OMB ruling on new condo project [ Globe and Mail ]

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  2. Toronto owes a lot to Ed Mirvish. He left a huge legacy in this city and I personally thank him for saving one of this city’s precious jewels, the Royal Alexander Theatre, future generations will thank him for being one of the few people back in the 60’s with a desire to preserve our past while looking into the future. He was a real Torontonian and I am proud to have had such a fine human being as a fellow citizen of this great city of ours.

    These past few years we lost Johnny Lombardi, Jane Jacobs and now Ed Mirvish, they were among the best of the greatest generation.

    You will be missed Honest Ed.

  3. And once again, the war profiteers are using the yellow ribbon issue for political gain. What fun.

  4. why should ttc (and other public agencies including fire and ambulance services) provide free promotion for what are essentially unpopular military incursions on formerly sovereign soil?
    the taliban were elected. they did not steal elections with rigged voting machines that were decided by politically sensitive courts. their popularity may have been on the wane worldwide but that is what diplomacy is for. invasions are little more than hostile takeovers.
    the west has done a great crime to humanity by invading the middle east.

  5. It really bugs me having poltical messages on public trucks. It flies in the face of fairness.

  6. I am so sick of those “support our troops” decals being foisted on an unsuspecting public.

    Oh, and, incidentally, as inflammatory as this might seem, I do not “support our troops”. This wasn’t a draft where everyone was pressed into service – these are professional soldiers who knew full well when they signed up with the Canadian Forces that they would be thrown into combat and run the risk of dying.

  7. geoffrey – ISAF is UN authorised. Being elected has not been a licence to do what you like since the UN Charter. Ask the Serbs.

    The Canadian Forces are doing jobs no-one should have to do but someone must do. They are not independent actors but are directed by Ottawa. We can’t put up and take down decals depending on whether we like the theatre of operations – we put up and take down MPs instead.

  8. “Support our Troops” is, by itself, not a political message. It has been distorted by the same groups that want to see it displayed everywhere, but attach political meaning to it. The resistance other people have to a message that should easily be “of course I support these people doing Canada’s dangerous work abroad” is the fault of the groups who used that message to call people unpatriotic or etc.

  9. Shawn, you are a decent writer on some topics, so I am always surprised at how unsophisticated your interpretation of political issues can be. I would expect something less jejune from the editor of a blog about (certain aspects of) local politics.

  10. blarg> How is it (often — ha) jejune or unsophisticated though? I’m in, I think, agreement with what you said in your above comment. What should be a simple, almost automatic statement of “I support our troops” is not simply that because of the way the “war profiteers” (as you say) have twisted that message and mixed support for Canadian troops with the political reasons why they are there. Canada is certainly not as shrill and amplified as the American “you are either with us or against us” rhetoric, but it’s here. I am as irritated at folks on the left or in progressive circles who automatically think any respect/support for Canadians troops somehow translates into war mongering or similar. It is a shame tying a yellow ribbon (around the oak tree, or around the Dodge Minivan) for Johnny/Jenny Canadian abroad has been co-opted.
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    Also, what is wrong with a real yellow ribbon? These magnets are tacky. I wonder if Toronto vehicles just attached a proper yellow ribbon to the antenna this debate would not have happened.