CITY HALL
• New year brings new user fees [ Globe & Mail ]
• David Miller’s summer of lovelessness [ Globe & Mail ]
• Miller defends his legacy [ Toronto Sun ]
• Who wants that job? [ Toronto Sun ]
URBAN GREEN
• Hume: Going green brings unexpected savings [ Toronto Star ]
• Joy to the world [ Globe & Mail ]
DEVELOPMENT / ARCHITECTURE
• Washington Post pans ROM addition [ Toronto Sun ]
• Hume: Condo’s future needs mature debate [ Toronto Star ]
• How condo owners can claim the Home Renovation Tax Credit [ Toronto Star ]
• To build, or not to build, that is the question [ Globe & Mail ]
• $2M for BMO Field in works [ Toronto Sun ]
• Platform safety probed in highrise deaths [ CBC News ]
OTHER NEWS
• Mission, and its volunteers, deliver Christmas dinner [ Toronto Star ]
• Talking the beat [ Globe & Mail ]
• PERKS AND RECREATION [ Globe & Mail ]
• merci, Montreal [ Globe & Mail ]
• Motorists charged for using cellphones, despite grace period [ CBC News ]
• 40-hour rave planned [ Toronto Sun ]
2 comments
Re: 4 dead in xmas eve hi-rise construction accident..
A lot of people/institutions have a lot of explaining to do on this one. Bottom line is that despite the rhetoric about safety, precautions on job sites have become increasingly less stringent. Increasingly, you have companies hiring “contractors” rather than “employees” for the simple reason that it allows them to avoid/minimize WSIB fees as well as costs related to proper training/standards. These sorts of practices should not be allowed… but unfortunately, we have our labour ministries look the other way on this. I’ve never worked on a scaffold… but I know people who have.. it is not a job to be taken lightly… unfortunately, in this situation… and in many others, it was.. likely because of the “need” to increase production.
The CBC article is simply a waste of space, since they always said that while you won’t get charged for using a cell phone, you can still get charged for other dangerous and careless driving activities caused because you couldn’t put the phone down.
Also, while I’m no fan of Miller, his handling of the strike is one of the few things he did right I think. During the strke, the news media was reporting on whining and sob stories from people inconvenienced by the strike. When they negotiated a settlement, the news media was reporting on people complaining that they were getting paid too much (these people would probably complain if they were getting paid a dime more than minimum wage).
Toronto’s news media is hitting new lows these days. They simply report on and rally up support for “the other guy,” no matter how asinine or ill-informed his opinion may be.