STRIKE
• Fix your own problem, Premier tells city, strikers [ Toronto Star ]
• Toronto full of trash, U.S. travel writer warns [ Toronto Star ]
• Is city tossing residents’ goodwill out with the garbage [ Toronto Star ]
• No quick end to the strike? [ Toronto Star ]
• City better off to let strike run its full, stinking course [ Toronto Star ]
• Toronto’s most exclusive garbage bin [ Globe & Mail ]
• Day 15 and the edges are fraying [ Globe & Mail ]
• Three more temporary dumps sprayed [ National Post ]
• Anti-strike petition draws support [ Toronto Sun ]
• How Miller dumped on York [ Toronto Sun ]
• CUPE strike would have had my dad in the dumps [ Toronto Sun ]
• Toronto’s position ‘barrier’ to strike settlements: unions [ CBC ]
• Councillors kept ‘in the dark’ [ Toronto Sun ]
GREEN BINS
• Snag in plot for communal compost [ Toronto Star ]
• Province steps in to fix green bin mess [ Toronto Star ]
• Green Bin program is a success [ Toronto Star ]
OTHER NEWS
• Trolley parking plan hits pothole [ Toronto Star ]
• Mess from condo’s sales tent finally gone [ Toronto Star ]
• If anything, city councillors should make more [ Globe & Mail ]
• Crime up on Red Rocket [ Toronto Sun ]
3 comments
Marcus Gee isn’t too bad this time, for once, on councillor salaries.
US Travel Writer Warns,
I think we all need to change the context of discussions about this strike. I am indeed an opponent of the Mayor but agree with his statement that ‘the world has changed,’ even though it is a year late. The bottom line is that the unemployment rate in Toronto will soon be over 10%, and welfare needs will increase radically and the City reserves are drained and we are in the worst economic recession since the great depression yet we have debilitating strike of Toronto public service workers and negotiations are at a standoff.
As it stands now the strike will go on for another month at least with incredible damage being done to Toronto’s multi million dollar tourist industry in addition to citizens costs and deprivation of services. This situation is insane, we are bordering on depression, it will take a generation to pay off the debt governments are taking on to stimulate the economy and this strike will be like another SARS that will take years for our reputation to recover as a desireable designation.
These are exraordinary times requiring extraordinary action and business as usual waiting for a ‘negotiated settlement’ is not acceptable. Miller or somebody should request that the Province step in with return to work legislation for Windsor and Toronto, a wage freeze on all public sector agrements and a bar on any public service strikes until the economy shows some signs of life. Let Cupe have their sick days for now and fight the issue another day when our City and Province is not already on its’ death bed.
“garbage bags piled high, maggots crawling steps from where children play, and trash blowing through the streets like tumbleweeds. It was enough to make you wonder what’s going on here, and if anything good comes from the recent garbage strike it will be that it served as a catalyst for a very hard look, by very many people, at what we want Toronto to be.
“Because surely we want something a little more than this.”
Someone should tell this guy he’d make a great Premier of Ontario.