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• Natives feeling the pull of major urban centres [ Toronto Star ]
• Natives seek break in cities [ Toronto Sun ]
• Number of aboriginal people living in Toronto continues to grow [ CBC.ca ]
• Trees fees new leaf for city [ Toronto Sun ]
• GO makes tracks on new trains [ Toronto Sun ]
• Fast train pulls in, 18 minutes late [ Toronto Star ]
• Scarborough tackles its image [ Toronto Star ]
• Scarborough rips writer for bad rap [ Toronto Sun ]
• City Hall may designate entire city as official tourism area [ National Post ]
• Slowing down drive-throughs [ Toronto Star ]
• The promised land? [ Globe and Mail ]
• Miller, Watson reject call for municipal sales tax [ Globe and Mail ]
• Former Mayor of Ottawa slams Miller’s Leafs [ National Post ]
• ‘Tax room’ for T.O. [ Toronto Sun ]

3 comments

  1. Wouldn’t the city wide tourism are designation have some effect on panhandlers? I’m under the impression that they aren’t allowed to panhandle in “tourist areas.”

  3. Since this list of “tourist areas” is written specifically into Chapter 510, which deals only with holiday shopping, I’d say there’s no such connection. (It does sound like something Case Ootes would propose, but that would get voted down by full council.)

    Personally, I wonder if we really need to squeeze in another nine shopping days a year. Granted, fewer and fewer Torontonians observe Good Friday as a religious holiday, but I’d think people working in retail appreciate the guaranteed day off.