CITY HALL
• Toronto to review ‘vitally important’ vision for future [Globe & Mail]
• Councillors vote to send information pillars back to the drawing board [Globe & Mail]
• Reining in the Info-less Info pillars [Torontoist]
• The Rob Ford agenda: Dec. 22-31 [The Grid]
• Cyclists should be licensed for safety, councillor says [National Post]
• Sidewalk bike strife [NOW]
• Toronto aims to bring collective agreements to a ‘reasonable’ level: City manager Joseph Pennachetti [National Post]
• Labour tensions mount in Toronto [The Sun]
TRANSIT & TRAFFIC
• Via Rail commuters left in limbo by ticketing change [The Star]
• Illegal parking at rush hour may cost $150 [The Star]
• Public works okays hike in rush-hour parking fines [Globe & Mail]
• York transit strikers to vote on latest offer Friday [The Star]
• Could Toronto make 905ers pay more to park? [The Star]
• Let’s save transit from disaster this year [The Grid]
OTHER NEWS
• A look inside the Flatiron [The Star]
• Oshawa residents protest new seniors’ home [The Star]
• Toronto Hydro at a breaking point: steep rate rise or brownouts [Globe & Mail]
3 comments
So the truth comes out about Toronto Hydro’s “dividend” and there is only the sound of crickets from the spacing editorial board? Where are Adam Giambrone and Enzo DiMatteo’s comments now? I’ll make this crystal clear the dividend was is and always will be a fraud. It was money that desperately needed to be allocated to critical infrastructure upgrades and it was not because overpaid public servants screwed all Torontonians yet again. Dear Mayor Ford please sell this public utility post haste so we can finally get a decent management team.
“Could Toronto make 905ers pay more to park?”
Another divisive, impossible to implement, and generally just dumb idea. Politicians love it because it targets “them” not “us”. A general increase of city parking rate downtown and other busy areas plus higher tax on commercial parking lots, would do the trick with much less fuss. If you really feel that 416er should be somehow compensated, then give them a break on property tax.
June 14, 1999
City Council approves incorporation of new Toronto Hydro Corporation
“Mayor Mel Lastman was a major supporter of the initiative to create the new Corporation. The Mayor spearheaded efforts by City and Toronto Hydro staff to clearly define this new and unique relationship between the City and Hydro.”
“The new company will provide the City with significant annual revenues resulting from dividends and interest payments from Toronto Hydro Corporation’s debt held by the City.”
Just in case anyone (like the inhabitants of newspaper comment boards) forgot who got the City into the business of taking profits from hydro bills.