CITY HALL
• Rookie Toronto councillor pulls support for Ford’s waterfront plan [Globe & Mail]
• Ford ally joins experts in rejecting his port lands plan [The Star]
• James: council rebellion could halt Ford revolution [The Star]
• ‘Gravy train’ architect Kouvalis now trying to fight it [The Star]
• “The Ford administration is not going to blink” [NOW]
• Cutting the core – those in council’s mushy middle who’ve been propping up Ford will have to decide if they will take a bullet for the mayor [NOW]
• D-Day for council’s mushy middle [NOW]
CITY BUDGET CUTBACKS
• Councillors push back against cuts [The Sun]
• Good accounting is M.I.A. [NOW]
• Rob Ford’s war on Toronto [NOW]
• Internal memo warns culture department staff of impending cutbacks [Torontoist]
• Analysis: tense days at city hall as budge hole looms [National Post]
• CUPE threatens centrist councillor over Twitter post [The Star]
• No word on buyouts after police board meeting [The Star]
• Toronto cop board eyes ‘significant staff reduction’ [The Sun]
• Divided board of health approves 10 per cent cut [The Star]
MAYOR’S APPROVAL RATING
• Ford’s approval rating plummets in new poll [National Post]
• Poll position support for Rob Ford drops across Toronto [Torontoist]
• Ford dismisses bad poll results, says he’ll ‘stay the course’ [The Star]
DEVELOPMENT
• Property manager bilked $20M in condo fraud, victims claim [The Star]
• What the #!%*?: the contentious debate over a proposed Mississauga crematorium [National Post]
TRAFFIC & TRANSIT
• Ontario election campaigns not focusing enough on gridlock, poll finds [Globe & Mail]
• Transit geniuses in park [The Sun]
• Fighting traffic tickets gets a twist [The Sun]
• City eyes fixed fine for parking tickets [The Sun]
• Fare hike last stop for TTC [The Sun]
• Cross here [The Grid]
OTHER NEWS
• Toronto’s wealthiest are the most indebted [The Star]
• Smelling a rat in the budget chief’s office [The Star]
• Mayoral pursuit [The Grid]
• Kelly McParland: Toronto has the adult conversation Ontario wants to avoid [National Post]
2 comments
Ford: ““We inherited a $774-million mess and the easy way is to sit back and increase taxes 35%, or $1500 on the average tax bill. That’s not going to happen. I’m going to clean up the mess we inherited from the previous administration and get our fiscal house in order.”
Does this guy think people aren’t paying attention to what he says? This is stretching the limits of even truthiness.
In light of RF’s comments today on city workers, a very interesting cautionary tale from the New Yorker about a California city that cut the gravy, so to speak.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/09/05/110905fa_fact_friend