ICE TIME
• Girls hockey policy passes [ Globe & Mail ]
• Girls’ hockey wins its fair share of ice [ Toronto Star ]
ARCHITECTURE
• Hume: City and Fort York bury hatchet, seek ways to engage the Gardiner [ Toronto Star ]
• James: Mondo condo’s saving graces [ Toronto Star ]
• Telus builds a tower open to the city [ Toronto Star ]
• Bridge a medical link to scientific breakthroughs [ Toronto Star ]
• Condo Critic: Despite change, King St. E. keeps identity [ Toronto Star ]
TTC
• TTC crowd control now permanent [ Toronto Star ]
• Curvy St. Clair tracks make ride bumpy, slow: ex-TTC chairman [ National Post ]
• Developers to buy transit passes for condo purchasers [ National Post ]
• Condos must provide year of free TTC rides [ Globe & Mail ]
OTHER NEWS
• Don’t like tolls on the 407? Well, boo-hoo [ Globe & Mail ]
• Grim history lurks beneath the new Exhibition Place hotel [ Globe & Mail ]
• Michael Bryant joins prestigious Toronto law firm [ Globe & Mail ]
• Queen Street West to lose another music venue [ Globe & Mail ]
• Hard times hit Toronto club district [ CBC News ]
• Birds fly the coop [ Toronto Sun ]
• Gray areas in zoo’s future [ Toronto Sun ]
• 2,200 bicycles held in bike theft case head to auction block [ Toronto Star ]
• Yucch! It stinks by the water [ Toronto Sun ]
• Fiorito: A tireless, constant gardener [ Toronto Star ]
• Toronto to host G20 summit next June [ Globe & Mail ]
• Sweet Home Leslieville [ National Post ]
• Queen West braces for Shoppers Drug Mart [ National Post ]
5 comments
I live downtown (but don’t live in a condo) and don’t drive a car in the downtown either. Where’s my free TTC pass?
Anybody know whether Moscoe has a valid point?
Condo/TTC issue pass is ridiculous tokenism. Essentially all it is doing is forcing new condo buyers to buy a years worth of tokens. The developers will just pass on the costs. It is nothing but a diguised TTC subsidy.
Just adding another story from today’s Star regarding the 40 bed shelter with the $10million+ pricetag that the city is building on Peter St (or $250k per bed which doesn’t even factor yearly operating costs). Yup, Toronto often gets a raw deal from the feds and the province. But it’s situations such as this that provide an ample supply of ammo to the City’s critics who carp about Toronto’s inability to use its resources wisely.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/735077–shelter-or-money-pit#article
@Dave – all Howard has to do is tell the condo developers not to pass ANY of the costs of building/selling condos on to buyers and we can all have a free one.
From the shelter article:
“Councillor Janet Davis, who chairs the city’s community development committee, has suggested that criticism of cost overruns on the project is a thinly disguised attack on programs for the homeless.”
Apart from the offensiveness of the implication that some city projects are immunized from criticism by the need to be right on, the fact that the councillor whose ward it is in and who backed the project is calling the overruns offside should place these criticisms outside her tarring brush. We’re heading into a budget cut year and these overruns will mean even more cutbacks in 2010 – placing more pressure on among other things city social services.
An independent assessment of city capital budgets should also be done to ensure that budgets are not being under-estimated to ensure their passage rather than being realistically costed.