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• Ottawa’s ‘leaders’ ignore cities [ Toronto Star ]
• When fun becomes hard work [ National Post ]
• Can council chambers become a women’s room? [ Globe and Mail ]
• Riders won’t stand for any of that lip [ Toronto Star ]
• Etobicoke’s back-lane pickup an exception for businesses [ Globe and Mail ]
• Ryerson plan links old to Yonge [ Toronto Star ]
• T.O. rides out tourism slump [ Toronto Star ]

5 comments

  1. Why does the Toronto Star force people to look at “Parent Central” for the Ryerson article? How annoying.

  2. I have to cry “slow news day??” in regards to Christopher Hume’s column today about cities being left out of the campaign agenda. Uhhh…no shit. Why would cities be a part of the agenda? The Conservatives know they don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting even a baby toe hold into Toronto proper, so what do they care? The Liberals take our support for granted so they’re focusing on the rest of the country and we’re all (seemingly) too fat-headed (strategic voting, indeed) to get behind the NDP in a big way, a fact which I assure you isn’t lost on the NDP. Jack Layton knows just as well as anyone that winning the election doesn’t have a lot to do with winning Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal.

    Young whipper snappers like ourselves are going to have a hard time drumming up support for alternative candidates (VOTE GREEN!…no, seriously Vote Green) in strong Liberal neighbourhoods. And in the ‘burbs the Conservatives are making headway as they tend to play to the baser emotions felt in the suburban working class who really do wonder why they should be paying for things like the arts?

    Face it folks, until we form a Toronto Party…we’re fucked.

  3. It’s hard for me to sympathize with the tourism slump. A lot of Toronto’s “pull factors” are disappearing.

  4. josh perhaps what’s really needed to be consistent with your point is a national ‘municipal’ party.

    as for jack ‘i’ll say anything for a quote and thank god i’ll never have to actually do anything’ layton….

  5. Ryerson’s redevelopment plan includes a really great, progressive idea – the pedestrian malling of Gould Street, and a really bad, regressive idea – the demolition of Kerr Hall, with its runoff retaining planting beds and public art, to replace it with another shiny, modernist glass box.

    And what, precisely, is a “Student Learning Centre”? Isn’t that what a university is supposed to be? Sounds a bit redundant.