CITY COUNCIL
• Hume: Taxpayers are consumers, city hall is a business, Ford is CEO [The Star]
• Fiorito: What happened when Case met Ootes [The Star]
• City Hall Diary: Councillors dance around party loyalties [The Star]
• Thousands rally against Ford policies [The Star]
• James: Ford answers questions, but leaves real ones dangling [The Star]
• Hundreds rally in Toronto to protest mayor Rob Ford’s policies [Globe & Mail]
• Posted Toronto Political Panel: Should the city stop selling pop in arenas? [National Post]
• Ford takes questions on Gordon Chong, councillor expenses [National Post]
STREETS
• Yum: Tastier street eats, without the red tape [The Star]
• Laird Drive’s off-kilter intersections snarl traffic [The Star]
• Hot dog vendors skeptical about plans to loosen regulations on street food [The Star]
• Roncesvalles Ave. faces one more torn-up spring [The Star]
• The Fixer: Trash trucks trash island on cul-de-sac [The Star]
• The Fixer: Temporary cable repairs mess up neighbourhoods [The Star]
• Rob Ford’s war on graffiti [Globe & Mail]
• Should cyclists have to play by the same rules as cars? [BlogTO]
ARCHITECTURE & DEVELOPMENT
• Hume: It’s not always hip to be a square [The Star]
• Toronto should be more like Singapore, Moshe Safdie says [Globe & Mail]
• City to rename Metro Square in honour of late Luminato founder [National Post]
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Peeling marble off First Canadian Place fosters Toronto pride [National Post]
• Peter Kuitenbrouwer: House U of T students at CityPlace [National Post]
NATURE
• Tories pledge to create national park in Rouge Valley [Globe & Mail]
• Toronto can kiss its ash goodbye [OpenFile]
HISTORY
• A visual history of Queen and Bay [BlogTO]
• Historicist: A Handful of People Who Know About Books [Torontoist]
OTHER NEWS
• Parkdale mobilizes to protect citizens as attacks continue [Globe & Mail]
• The road to Camelot cuts through the GTA [Globe & Mail]
• Are indie video stores a giant-killer? [OpenFile]
2 comments
One would think Olivia Chow would welcome housing UofT students at CityPlace, given the recent article about how current residents in those towers tend to be more Liberal/Tory than NDP.
Not sure if Spacing consider this relevant, but I like to bring it up for comment anyway:
The high cost of rising home values : http://www.moneyville.ca/article/972359–the-high-cost-of-rising-home-values
The author forgot to mention (well he kind of hinted) that this lady has not just a fixed-income, she has a large equity on top of the fixed cash flow. She sits on a property with an equity north of at least half a million and complains that she cannot afford the rising property tax and utility and so on. She can easily draw up a line of credits of several hundreds of thousands of dollars, which can be used to invest, and to paid her bills. She may not know how to do it, but she can hire some professionals to deal with it. She may not be comfortable with all this, but that does not mean that she is entitled not to pay her fair share of tax.