G20
• G20 protesters determined to demonstrate [ Toronto Star ]
• Protest groups say the G20 leaders should be focus of scrutiny [ Globe & Mail ]
• G20 will give homeless the heave-ho [ Toronto Sun ]
• G20: Out of the suits and into the fire – your class-war guide to dressing down [ National Post ]
Roads & Transit
• Metrolinx study will kill Peterborough train, says local MP [ Toronto Star ]
• Overhaul coming on parking ticket rules [ Toronto Star ]
• Crash on 400 was staged, police say [ Globe & Mail ]
• How to pay for transit? [ Toronto Star ]
• Transit City plan starts rolling [ Toronto Sun ]
Other News
• History gets a makeover [ Toronto Star ]
• School board unveils stashed art treasures worth millions [ Globe & Mail ]
• Councillor wants health standards for food at all community centres, arenas [ Globe & Mail ]
• Fireworks and fun on holiday weekend [ Toronto Sun ]
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A couple of more:
Wind turbines pose no health hazard, says Ontario’s top doc [Toronto Star]
Liberals urged to protect Legislature skyline from condo development [Toronto Star]
On the legislature vs Four Seasons – Adam Vaughan says the big bad OMB won’t listen to the City, the big bad OMB said the City protected QP in the past and overruled Staff on approving the development (PDF).
According to 680 News, the secret parking immunity list isn’t being published until March 2011. Long enough to get any embarrassing names off it?
Isn’t City Council tired of micromanaging food after the A La Cart fiasco? Much more of this and the answer is going to be a movement to get arenas out of Council ownership.
“A bomb in a bank will be fixed,” said Anna Willats, of Gender Justice For All — Tell that to the families of the people who died in the Athens bank firebombed by protesters
The Peterborough Train, you can tell that Metrolinx wants to kill it, because it’s not their project. The issue is that jobs in the area that are not minimum wage retail type jobs are no longer common, so people need to travel longer distances to find decent work. The problem with the CP line, it was ready to be condemned 30 years ago, when the Liberals first killed the Via Train.
I think a better route would be to build a new line pretty much along the 115, then terminate south of the 401/115 interchange at a Clarington station, an extension of the GO Lakeshore train service.
While I don’t usually do deliveries downtown anymore, when I did most businesses had delivery bays in the back alleys, side streets, or underground. Only once did I park in a no parking zone with my flashers (no parking does not mean no stopping), fortunately I did not get a ticket.
If city employees are writing bogus tickets and are not being disciplined, then Puralator, FedEx, and other courier companies should be sue the city for the time they waste to contest them!
It’s not the tickets that are bogus. It’s the canceling of the tickets that is bogus. Tickets are being rejected based on secret criteria found in no provincial law or municipal law. Stuff just made up some rules on what tickets to cancel in blatant defiance of council and democracy. Why councilors tolerate this for even a single day is beyond me.
Paul Schmidt – a look at the density map on the final Report on Peterborough (stevemunro.ca has it) shows why there should not be a GO line there in the short run – it has no catchment and in fact the report says it will impact the Stouffville catchment. The other thing that would cause a shift in the calculations would be the Peterborough airport, which would completely justify a rapid rail service while being a disaster for the Food Belt.
There could be a case for a VIA or Northland service (with no stops within the green belt) using the Stouffville line option but the fact that CP have been permitted to reduce the condition of the line to 16km/h militates against any such thing happening and even raising it to 100km/h is an expensive undertaking, let alone the 160km/h that we should demand for VIA services going forward.