WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT
• New port lands plan will cost taxpayers $270 million [Globe & Mail]
• Mayor Ford defends brother’s waterfront vision [The Star]
• Doug Ford is a genius. Maybe. [National Post]
CITY HALL
• Toronto could lose 400 police officers to buyouts [Globe & Mail]
• Police board to consider outsourcing [The Star]
• Library employees may be offered buyouts [The Star]
• Police, libraries mull buyout plans [The Sun]
TRAFFIC CONGESTION
• For Toronto drivers, the good news is it’s not Mexico City [Globe & Mail]
• City looking for ways to battle gridlock [National Post]
• Hume: Ford loyalist not convinced Toronto streets are for pedestrians [The Star]
• Scramble intersection: more hugs and delays [The Star]
• Scrambling for inspiration from the past [Torontoist]
TTC & TRANSIT NEWS
• TTC imports Aussie executive [The Star]
• TTC looks to Australia for its new chief operating officer [National Post]
• 20 foot sinkhole closes Danforth at Woodbine [The Star]
• St. Clair street signs blocked by good intentions [The Sun]
• Toronto police considering charges for cyclist who fatally struck pedestrian [Globe & Mail]
OTHER NEWS
• Toronto ranks 9th among ‘greenest’ North American cities [The Star]
• Miller gets warm welcome but vows to stay out of politics [The Star]
• Toronto police accused of racial profiling [The Star]
• Toronto’s official plan soon to be open to public consultation [Torontoist]
• Ava Baccari on the ill wind at city hall [NOW]
2 comments
The post can be such an idiot. “Doug Ford is a genius?” Try doing some research into how bad the plan actually is, you non-journalistic propaganda bureau.
You may hate the Fords (and I do), but you have to recognize that they are brilliant at populist politics. They know that (most of) the public cares far more about results than about process. The waterfront issue is a huge win for them: sweeping away a plodding, decade-long, if impeccable, process to get things done NOW. The left needs to learn this lesson urgently.
Andrew:
I assume you’re talking about perceptions and not reality here.
Because the reality is that WaterfrontTO came in and swept away a plodding, decades-long lack-of-process that saw TEDCO (AKA the agency the Fords want to give control of the waterfront to) accomplishing essentially nothing. In the decade WTO’s been around, we’ve seen real progress on both remediating toxic soil and actually getting stuff built.
What the Ford’s are proposing isn’t getting stuff done now, it’s selling off City assets cheaply now and delaying any actual work for a decade at least.