TRANSIT
• Eglinton rail project brings rivals together [ National Post ]
• A TTC etiquette campaign the ttc doesn’t know about [ National Post ]
DEVELOPMENT
• It took 100 years but a tower begins to rise [ National Post ]
• Athletes’ Village moving forward on waterfront [ Toronto Star ]
• Transforming the Gardiner into a garden [ Toronto Star ]
URBAN GREEN
• Professor sees red over ‘green building’ claims [ Globe & Mail ]
• Toronto’s best green ideas up for $50,000 in prize money [ Toronto Star ]
OTHER NEWS
• Council vote pushes city toward Christmas Day shopping [ Globe & Mail ]
• Shopping 365 days a year urged [ National Post ]
• Nuit Blanche redraws boundaries [ Globe & Mail ]
• City poised to allow Christmas Day shopping [ Toronto Star ]
• Councillors’ spending rules favour … councillors [ Toronto Star ]
• David Pecaut would ‘cold-call the Pope‘ [ Toronto Star ]
5 comments
The problem of allowing shopping 365 days a year, is going to be difficult for small and independent business people, who only get about 10 days a year off, now they get to work those 10 days too……
It’s not about religious holidays either, of the 10 holiday days, only 2 have any religious significance, the remainder are cultural holidays,
What is interesting in all this, they probably will not see any additional revenue, it just means that the customers they see over 355 days now, will spread out over 365 days.
The 365 day shopping basically says that as a society we can’t even take 10 days out of the year off from our material consumption habits. Wogster nailed it, all it does is spread the same purchasing over more days, and is going to screw small businesses and retail employees who get few or crappy days off now as it is. When are government services going to be available on stat holidays?
Hey Spacing, what’s up? New look, but no heads up? Be Proud, tell us please!
Whaaaaaat, Nuit Blanche is scrapping West Queen West as a zone?
But WQW *is* art.
Oh well. 🙁
Wogster, these small business are now competing against 24/7 world wide Internet stores. Do you suggest that we shut down online shopping on these days?