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CITY HALL
• Miller asks Toronto Hydro to hold off on Telecom sale [ Toronto Star ]
• Telecommunication tower trouble [ Eye Weekly ]
• Ford draws rebuke, saying ‘Oriental’ people are ‘taking over’ [ Globe and Mail ]
• Ford under fire for ‘Oriental’ remarks [ Toronto Sun ]
• City fights cuts to tower tax [ Toronto Sun ]
• Toronto to appeal bank towers position [ National Post ]
• Extra holiday shopping proposal gets scrapped [ Toronto Star ]
• Council vetoes wide-open stat holiday shopping [ Toronto Sun ]

RECREATION
• Outdoor rinks to stay closed [ Toronto Star ]
• Skaters frozen out [ Toronto Sun ]
• No doubt Mayor Miller and council will skate away on the ridiculous issue of closing our city rinks way too soon [ Toronto Sun ]

HOUSING
• Toronto sells McDonald’s site for a bargain [ Toronto Star ]
• Condo across from ROM step closer [ National Post ]
• Dinged for density [ NOW magazine ]
• Housing sales fell in February [ National Post ]

TORONTO CENTRE
• Toronto Centre RAW [ Eye Weekly ]
• Bob Rae redux [ Eye Weekly ]
• Another brick in the wall [ NOW magazine ]

GRAND PRIX
• Race is on to find sponsors for 2009 contest [ Globe and Mail ]
• Toronto Grand Prix officially cancelled [ CBC.ca ]

MISCELLANEOUS
• ‘Everybody on the street knows’ El Mocambo owner [ Toronto Star ]
• Blue-box site gets recycled [ Toronto Star ]

5 comments

  1. Shame about the lost jobs surrounding the race – I don’t know if I buy the pro-growth rhetoric that usually surrounds big, branded events like that (“The economic benefits will be experienced by the whole city,”) because it seems to be a thinly-veiled form of trickle-down theory. However, it definitely gives people something to do for the summer, and creates tourism, so that’s good enough for me.

    There are many other ways to make up for the lost tourism, but I don’t think there is enough room here to discuss them.

    Also, I can’t believe Rob Ford actually says the things he does sometimes. Not because what he said is entirely untrue, although I think he needs to realize it’s not something innately “oriental,” but the fact that people who are selected to immigrate to Canada are usually highly-motivated people who expect their children to perform in school. I wonder what will happen when they “take over,” Mr. Ford?

  2. Rob Ford is one of those types that years later people ask “why did people keep electing him?”. THis time I think he has moved into offensive territory.

  3. What does Rob Ford have to worry about, he’s not trying to get elected in Trinity-Spadina or Toronto-Danforth. In Etobicoke North, where people of Chinese origin only make up 2% of the population, he probably doesn’t lose much sleep about insulting the “orientals”.

    What a douche.

  4. i just took a quick look at Ford’s election results from 2006. Lame. He won a majority of every voting station.