PROPANE FIRE • Waiting game continues for residents forced to leave apartments [ CBC.ca ]
• • Propane company urges public not to rush to judgment [ CBC.ca ]
• Unsafe practices at Toronto propane plant, ex-employee says [ CBC.ca ]
• TSSA begins investigations into Ont. propane facilities [ CBC.ca ]
• Sunrise aimed to install 30,000 gallon tank [ Globe and Mail ]
• Propane blast left murky fog of evasion [ Globe and Mail ]
• Firm sought expansion [ Toronto Sun ]
• Dead bird raises asbestos fears [ Toronto Sun ]
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• Chinatown merchants hire private patrol [ Globe and Mail ]
• Panhandlers make Chinatown ‘look seedy’ [ Toronto Sun ]
• Rent-a-cop plan ripped [ Toronto Sun ]
• Pack up, drug pusher told [Toronto Sun ]
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ENVIRONMENT
• • Rain drains water consumption revenues [ Globe and Mail ]
• Mixed messages [ Globe and Mail ]
• • Toronto lands spot on new Monopoly board [ Toronto Sun ]
MISCELLANEOUS
• Mystery surrounds ‘100% genuine’ Casa Loma antiques [ National Post ]
• The reel depressing news [ National Post ]
• Condo boom coming to an end: report [ National Post ]
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4 comments
If Chinatown merchants want to make the area look nicer, they should spend money on private trash collection, not bouncing the homeless.
the first link has nothing to do with the propane fire – that’s the hydro vault explosion.
water consumption goes down, rates go up – just like hydro last year. No wonder people are sceptical when the city pushes a reduction agenda because it will be followed with a rate increase.
@Kevin – no reason they can’t do both, not if, as one homeless guy was quoted as describing a fellow area panhandler, “she’ll go for your eyes if you say no.”
A couple of comments about the “Environment” stories:
I thought it was interesting that the cities see water rates in terms of profit generation, not merely cost recovery.
Also, $200,000 to advertise water reduction? By comparison, it only cost MasterCard $160,000 to keep our ice rinks open last December. It’s hard to accept Toronto City Hall crying poverty when it clearly haven’t passed the message along to their own department heads.
I think part of the profit generation aspect is that the City is way way behind in updating the water system and needs money beyond just operating costs. The taking of money in the past to keep property taxes low has come home to roust.