CITY COUNCIL
• City workers posted inappropriate videos about co-workers [The Star]
• Ideology offers simplistic solutions on waste pickup [The Star]
• Auditor-General uncovers waste, fraud and fake sick time at Toronto city hall [Globe & Mail]
• Chris Selley: Mismanagement the core of city waste complaints [National Post]
• City waste uncovered [The Sun]
• City auditor to the rescue: Levy [The Sun]
• Toronto through the eyes of Councillor Josh Matlow [BlogTO]
TRANSPORTATION
• Why today’s TTC delay was a mystery to many riders [The Star]
• Fixer: Utility cuts a breeding ground for potholes [The Star]
• Blitz targets distracted drivers [The Sun]
• Confusion over province’s Hwy. 407 plans [The Sun]
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION & DESTRUCTION
• Developer plans 39-storey condo tower at King and Spadina [Globe & Mail]
• Urban Scrawl: Steeles subway — ‘architectural wankfests’ a failure to plan [National Post]
• A history of fire, from a pile of documents [OpenFile]
CULTURE & RECREATION
• Toronto Zoo to decide what to do with its elephants [The Star]
• ‘Get all the elephants out of Canada’: Bob Barker [The Star]
• Porter: City puts plans for youth skating party on ice [The Star]
ENVIRONMENT
• Landfill monitoring fund drained by city [The Star]
• Windmill foes are full of hot air [Globe & Mail]
OTHER NEWS
• Mississauga eyes 8-per-cent tax increase in proposed budget [Globe & Mail]
• Shelf Life: How the Toronto Public Library deals with complaints [National Post]
• Deputy chief’s remarks spark controversy [The Sun]
2 comments
Interesting take on the elephant thing. It is easy to criticize zoos when you forget their primary purposes, though: education and conservation.
Zoos exist to give a public face to rare and endangered species around the world so that the public cares about the plight of these animals in other places. It’s a pretty classic utilitarian problem: it may suck for the animals that are actually in the zoo, but those few animals are serving a higher purpose for their wild brethren.
So Adam Vaughan feels that 39 stories at King and Spadina is too tall? I expected better of our (usually enlightened) future mayor.
The newest two rental towers under construction in Jersey City are both 50 stories. Chicago is completing two downtown rental apartment towers of 42 and 50 stories. The newest rental tower in downtown Manhattan is 76 stories. Need I go on?
Toronto’s fear of heights is ridiculous — 39 stories at a downtown intersection, on top of two rail transit lines (one an actual almost-LRT), is barely tall enough. It is certainly not too tall. Stop being so stumpy, T.O.