MAYORAL RACE
• Union gives mayoral hopeful cool reception [ National Post ]
• The insider finds himself on the outs [ Toronto Star ]
• James: Lone woman runs in race for mayor’s chair [ Toronto Star ]
ARCHITECTURE / NEW DEVELOPMENT
• Pacific Mall proposal would double its size, add hotel [ National Post ]
• Hume: New waterfront park does double duty [ Toronto Star ]
• Condo Critic: Cityplace proving its critics wrong [ Toronto Star ]
• On Richmond Street, a revolution in 11 storeys [ National Post ]
• Finally, railway lands to see affordable housing [ Toronto Star ]
TRANSIT
• Politics stalling rail link: Miller [ Toronto Sun ]
• Transit wars: Vancouver good, Toronto bad? Not quite [ Globe & Mail ]
• Elevator slow to arrive at Lawrence W. station [ Toronto Star ]
CITY HALL
• Councillors ease budget bite [ Toronto Sun ]
• Groups, councillors scramble for slice of surprise budget surplus [ Globe & Mail ]
• Fatter surplus allows budget panel to ease up on austerity plans [ Globe & Mail ]
• Budget windfall may boost services [ Toronto Star ]
• Food carts still stymied by red tape [ Toronto Star ]
OTHER NEWS
• Green tide marks St. Patrick’s Day [ Toronto Sun ]
• Will Toronto’s changing demographic become a burden? [ Globe & Mail ]
• Sorry, politicos, our diversity’s one thing you can’t take credit for [ Globe & Mail ]
• Retail Therapy: How Queen West was worn [ National Post ]
• What should Toronto’s Pan Am mascot be? [ Toronto Star ]
• Will it be Junction Triangle after all? [ National Post ]
• Make space for cafés on grand avenue [ Toronto Star ]
• Pedestrian charged after walking into path of streetcar [ Toronto Star ]
• Parents vote down water vending machine at school [ Toronto Star ]
• Woonerf: It’s Dutch for smart city-building [ Toronto Star ]
• Pregnant, homeless and invisible in Toronto [ Toronto Star ]
2 comments
8 years for link? I think that should be closer to 20 years if you look back at the plans.
And we will get a for-profit (407 style) diesel line which doubles the carbon footprint instead of just letting GO run it. People still have not clued in to what a waste of money and resources this is.
I would love to see the SNC Lavlin contract and how about the tiny piece of land that Lavlin owns that stops GO from doing what should be their responsibility. When it gets built then everybody will go “How did this happen”.
Go Electric, and go GO.
Toronto Sun (SueAnn Levy no less) had a piece on Toronto Parks that’s interesting in light of TorontoStar’s recent pieces by CatherinePorter.
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/sueann_levy/2010/03/12/13214141.html
Toronto Star had an editorial calling for the current TTC Chair to step down.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/779735–lame-duck-lingers-at-ttc