FEDERAL BUDGET
• New fodder for a fine old feud [ Toronto Star ]
• Cities praise extension of gas tax program [ Toronto Star ]
• Toronto hopes for infrastructure cash from federal budget [ CBC.ca ]
• Cities, transit groups praise budget [ CBC.ca ]
CITY HALL
• Do we need a stronger mayor? [ Eye Weekly ]
• Tax decision worries city [ Toronto Star ]
• City ‘likely’ to fight a tax refund [ National Post ]
• Public assets in Toronto worth billions, says independent panel [ CBC.ca ]
TRANSIT
• Paramedics’ aid may cut transit delays [ Toronto Star ]
• Bikes get a fast track [ Toronto Star ]
• Whatever the solution – hands off the TTC! [ Toronto Star ]
• Subway ride darkens as teenagers turn ugly [ Toronto Star ]
• New GO engine sputters to a halt [ Toronto Sun ]
INFRASTRUCTURE
• Bad winter creates pothole backlog [ Toronto Star ]
• The Gardiner Expressway as canvas [ National Post ]
MISCELLANEOUS
• Adam Vaughan plan a Victorian-era rebuild for victims of Queen West fire [ National Post ]
• Check your carbon footprint [ Toronto Sun ]
• Half of the world’s people will be city folk in 2008 [ Toronto Sun ]
4 comments
Re. the violent teenagers on the ttc
I think the ttc and/or police needs to start putting more patrols onto the system. Violence is fortunately still rare, but this type of incident, along with aggressive panhandling seems to be on the upswing. It needs to be nipped in the bud before it gets worse. I know they’re installing a ton of cameras but they don’t have the same impact.
re: violent teenagers
It’s also vaguely attacks an entire demographic when the issue seems to be a gang of ‘troublemakers’.
I’ve been hearing this “global 50-50 rural/urban split” for yeeeeears now. I know it’s just an estimate so people disagree on exactly when it happened, or will happen, but why is it news?
Clearly the people who live in the cities know what they’re doing, end of story 😛
Also, Adam Vaughan deserves my praise this time for his attempt to preserve Queen West. For all my criticism of his draconian plans for banning marker sales to young people, gating alleyways, and destroying much of Toronto’s nightlife, he does occasionally have a good idea that is relevant to what I love about the city. This is one of them.
Good Luck Adam you are about to find out just how disfunctional city hall really is.And what is Adam proposing for the new homedepot project that has already been approved and doesn’t fit into the site???