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• Street cart vendors grilled on food safety [ Toronto Star ]
• ‘Difficult’ labour talks intensify [ National Post ]
• Toronto’s Sony Centre condo tower set for spring [ Globe & Mail ]
• A tale of four corners [ EYE Weekly ]
• Please stop nannying us, Toronto! [ Globe & Mail ]
• Votes of confidence [ EYE Weekly ]
• Trash bags at Queen station a visual spoiler for lens legend [ Toronto Star ]
• Edible city [ NOW ]
• GO problems prompt online apology [ Toronto Star ]
• Council spreads the wealth [ Toronto Sun ]
• Interview: Majora Carter [ EYE Weekly ]

6 comments

  1. I completely agree with the Globe & Mail article on the street vendor issue. City Hall never fails to find new ways to make a mockery of itself.

  2. I’m with Sean G.

    Our coucil is an embarassing joke.

  3. Whoops! I mean “council”. How embarassing.

  4. The kicker is that only 19 people applied, and 4 of 12 finalists dropped out. That’s exactly the sort of result you can expect when you micromanage something to death. But from the quotes in the news this week, it doesn’t look like John Filion has learned any lessons. One can only hope that, after the “pilot” project, the rest of council will force a more sensible approach to save themselves from embarrassment.

  5. Millions of people all over the world eat all sorts of exotic (to me) stuff every day off carts and have been doing so forever. We have lots of talented people right here with a wealth of knowledge just waiting to add spice to our lives and banish the hoof and snout logs for good.

    But for some reason the City has turned this whole process into a Brazil-like (the film) bureaucracy and provided ammunition for the Rob Fords who think the City cant do anything right. Cooking safe food from a cart is not rocket science and we should have hundreds of new vendors out there by now.

    Lets eat!

  6. I like to nosh as much as the next person (probably more so). But I can’t understand why this whole foodcart issue has:
    1) garnered so much publicity given that this stuff is already readily available at fairly cheap eateries throughout the city. (How did this warrant the pages of coverage it received in all the dailies?);
    2) wasted so much of the City’s time and resources turning this into such a big production as if there was nothing else to attend to.

    By all means, make sure that safety standards are adhered to and proper licencing takes place for food a la cart… but this whole thing has become an over-regulated, over-hyped farce.