CITY HALL
• City Budget: Small cuts now, pain for 2012 [The Star]
• A chat with Ford’s arts guy [The Star]
• Hume: Planning chair eyes Etobicoke’s urban future [The Star]
• Ford to balance books with no new taxes, no big service cuts [Globe & Mail]
• Finer points of cost-cutting eluding anti-Fordists [Globe & Mail]
• Posted Toronto Political Panel: What makes for a major service cut? [National Post]
• Butchering sacred cows: Levy [The Sun]
• Budget debate starts now [The Sun]
• Calling Rob Ford’s bluff [OpenFile]
• Navigating the 2011 budget [Torontoist]
GTA/ ONTARIO POLITICS
• Ontario declares $5 million war on bedbugs [The Star]
• Tom Urbaniak: McCallion’s rise to the top [National Post]
HERITAGE BUILDINGS
• Police release photos in Yonge St. fire investigation [The Star]
• Yonge but not young: Street’s historic facades [The Star]
• Historic buildings: The problem with preservation [The Star]
• Exploring the past of the building with no future [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto’s most vulnerable vacancies [Globe & Mail]
• Chris Selley: A bright side to heritage apathy [National Post]
TRANSPORTATION
• Supporters rally in bid to save Transit City [The Star]
• The Fixer: No way to hang up on 407 ETR messages [The Star]
• Ford pedalling away from downtown bike-lane network [Globe & Mail]
• 2010 in hindsight [Globe & Mail]
POLICE & CRIME
• Judge orders police, SIU to hand over Adam Nobody records [The Star]
• SIU report on plainclothes officers in Nobody case to be released [Globe & Mail]
• What’s the price for law and order? [Globe & Mail]
• G20 protesters demand Blair quit [The Sun]
BUILDINGS
• Ontario Place gearing up for revamp [The Star]
• Etobicoke ‘superjail’ leaves some neighbours uneasy [The Sun]
• Thinking Outside The Blocks [Torontoist]
THE GREAT OUTDOORS
• Ice trail is like a walk in the park – on skates [The Star]
• The Fixer: Turkey vulture is a tough bird to bag [The Star]
• West Queen West rendered in ice [BlogTO]
HISTORY
• Nostalgia Tripping: The Flatiron Building [BlogTO]
• Historicist: The Grenadier Ice Company [Torontoist]
OTHER NEWS
• Air Canada ordered to pay $2 million in court fees [The Star]
• Convoy hauling six massive beer vats starts slow journey to Toronto [The Star]
• Big DVD bust at Downsview market [BlogTO]
5 comments
Photos: The no pants subway ride [The Star]
Wow! Over 100 folks at the save Transit City rally? That many?
John Sewell had another piece regarding the bloated police budget, this one in the Sun.
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/2011/01/07/16805981.html
Hey, all it took was a handful of cranks on Lansdowne to create a narrative against Adam Giambrone. 100 people demonstrating against Ford is overwhelming by comparison.
Paul, quit twisting/inventing facts. About 300 people showed up to protest the lack of consultation regarding the Lansdowne narrowing (which actually widened the travelling lanes and thus resulted in speeding through the area) on a Sunday in 2007. That’s out of a section of road with under 200 homes. Well over 75% of the households on that route had at least one person at that protest. Giambrone had a well-deserved reputation for ignoring anyone who didn’t see things his way or were angry about not being consulted about important decisions about their neighborhood. There was talk in many parts of the ward that he chose not to run for Councillor because he had overstayed his welcome (and that he was using the mayoral campaign as a profile builder for a run in a federal or provincial election). And the fact is that his ExecAssistant was not re-elected in his place — a sure sign that people in the ward were not as happy with him as you and some others on this board like to pretend. The so-called progressives don’t do themselves any favours by holding on the likes of Giambrone. If you and others are unable to let go, I’m sure someone will be able to come up with a 12-step program. And I say this as someone who tends to vote NDP.
PS. I actually thought some of Transit City made sense… but once again, the previous administrations lack of consultation meant that very few of the people who are fighting for it, actually live in the areas that were meant to be served by Transit City. In fact most of the folks in those areas don’t want it. Do you think there’s a lesson in there (as well as Giambrone’s story) regarding the importance of public consultation?