CITY COUNCIL
•Where have copies of NOW’s naked Ford issue gone? [Globe & Mail]
• CFO Len Koroneos to oversee Toronto community housing [Globe & Mail]
• Podcast: On nudity and incredulity at City Hall [National Post]
• City Hall atwitter over ‘naked’ Ford [The Sun]
TRANSIT
• It’s official: Province and city to build Eglinton LRT [The Star]
• Mayor should put his money where his plans are [Globe & Mail]
• Eglinton light-rail line to go underground after winning provincial funding [Globe & Mail]
• Funding questions linger after new transit plan announced [National Post]
• Councillors give rough ride to Ford transit plan [The Sun]
• TTC takes locks off subway turnstiles [The Sun]
• Anyone up for renaming some TTC subway stations? [BlogTO]
• Finch commuters to get subway, Ford vows [The Sun]
SUNSHINE LIST
• G20 a big boost to police pay [The Star]
• Police cashing in during G20 leads to spike in six-figure earners [Globe & Mail]
• T.O.’s top constable gets $175Gs [The Sun]
• 300 workers join TTC top-earner club [The Star]
• City’s 100K club grows to 2,136 [The Sun]
OTHER NEWS
• Interactive map seeks to revive Toronto’s lost heritage [BlogTO]
• The new Torontophilia [Eye Weekly]
• Adult learners in Parkdale about to get harsh math lesson [OpenFile]
3 comments
Congrats, Rob Ford. Future students of politics will be studying how you managed to convert a population of 2.48 million intelligent people into 2.48 million dumb-as-rocks sheep. A masterful performance. Bravo.
Surely the real issue is how the provincial liberals and the well-paid Metrolinx sycophants were content to throw out multi-millions, years of planning and quite a few thousands of under-served Torontonians, along with sensible energy and transport policies.
We should be encouraging Mr. B. Lamb to re-draw this cartoon with Mr. Dalton McGuinty in the vehicle, and Ms. Wynne.
http://torontoist.com/2010/12/glad_hand_9.php
I got the feeling that Ford will just cut back in many other areas to get the money and start the subway building anyway. If he does that in his single-minded fashion, for better or for worse, he may be remembered as the mayor who got the subway-building rolling again. Nobody will remember that under his watch many people lost affordable apartments, ESL courses, recreation activities and so on, but many will remember he built one subway, or two.