CITY COUNCIL
Kidney stones
• Rob Ford recuperating after kidney stone treatment [Globe & Mail]
Protests
• ‘Get a job,’ Doug Ford tells OCAP protester [The Star]
• Protesters put Toronto City Hall on notice: There will be more [Globe & Mail]
• Chris Selley: Doug Ford retort not out of bounds [National Post]
• Two arrested as OCAP protest shuts down budget meeting [National Post]
•Quoted: ‘Why should we buckle down to a bunch of neanderthals’ [National Post]
• Revolution at City Hall short-lived [The Sun]
Calgary
• Ford’s privatization fever not shared by Calgary [The Star]
• Hume: ‘Canada’s mayor’ sees the city positively [The Star]
Etc…
• Toronto’s budget gap only getting wider [The Star]
• In garbage collection, competition is rarely wasted [The Star]
• Mayor’s right hand Doug Ford hints at bid for Ontario Tories [Globe & Mail]
• Podcast: On protests, salaries and kidneys [National Post]
TRANSIT
• TTC union slams city’s essential service demand [The Star]
• GO driver photographed on cellphone [The Sun]
OTHER NEWS
• Lawyers call for criminal investigation into G20 takedown [The Star]
• Documentary reveals the secret lives of Toronto’s raccoons [The Star]
• Hogdson: Old businesses and start-ups the right mix for growth in Toronto [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto’s underwhelming Bikeway Network [BlogTO]
• The state of our heritage is…not so strong, actually [OpenFile]
9 comments
Ah good ol’ OCAP, the Westboro Baptist Church of political activism.
Re: Quoted: ‘Why should we buckle down to a bunch of neanderthals’
Great, now I have to read the article to see if “neanderthals” refer to the protesters or the Fords.
What’s notable about Doug Ford “get a job” quote is that he initially denies saying it, even though presumably he knows what he said.
’Burbs bigger greenhouse gas emitters than inner city was missed. While it is not surprising that suburbanites emit more CO2 then people who live downtown, I was shocked at the difference. People in Whitby emit literally ten times more then people who live in East York.
El Sid, I’ve pressed the imaginary “like” button on your comment.
And I’m with you, Darwin, about Doug Ford’s denial of his comment. Can’t the man stand behind what he says? Especially when he says something that’s completely within his character (or public persona)?
@Darwin:
I felt the same way when I read that emissions article yesterday, but I then wondered if some people would use that data to justify their “subway fetishism.”
I don’t like the Fords, but I dislike OCAP even more.
Who didn’t see this coming:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2011/02/10/toronto-2012-budget.html
@Michael
What’s interesting is that the subway only skirts the edge of East York and the vast majority have to take a bus for at least part of their trip.
@iSkyscraper
OCAP may be loud, but the Fords’ policies are far more deadly.
At the protest John Clarke said, “behind his dull-witted intransigence stands a whole organized move to destroy everything in this city that people have fought for.” I think that’s a good summary of the situation.
Frankly, I would say that the Star headline on GHGs misrepresents the data. There are lots of neighbourhoods in Mississauga and Brampton with low GHG emissions. There are lots of neighbourhoods in Toronto with high GHG emissions (including all along the Yonge subway from Bloor up to the 401).
The Toronto map would probably look fairly similar to an income map, except that the east and west ends of the B/D subway are moderated by the smaller lot sizes (mostly semis, whereas the Yonge corridor has a larger proportion of single-family homes on larger lots, at least once you get away from apartment concentrations).