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• Municipalities get $1.1B [ Toronto Star ]
• City receives $238M from province [ National Post ]
• McGuinty’s bonus to cities [ Toronto Sun ]
• Cities back to begging for crumbs [ Toronto Star ]
• Elaborate gamesmanship of yore keeps municipalities happy [ Globe and Mail ]
• TTC looks at cutting out Metropass parking perk [ Toronto Star ]
• Biofuel buses could hit end of line [ Globe and Mail ]
• Attention TTC staff: Your booth is not a library [ National Post ]
• Residents gripped by ‘big stress’ [ Toronto Star ]
• 7 firms to work together in class-action suit [ Toronto Sun ]
• No community is an island when survival is involved [ National Post ]
• Shooting blanks on guns policy [ Toronto Star ]

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  1. While the money for infrastructure is welcome and we have large transit needs, it would be good to see a chunk of this money to go to non-transportation capital spend.

    As an example, accelerating beefing up our water infrastructure to prevent sinkholes and storm water contamination of our rivers. The City has been doing a lot recently but the backlog is huge with lots of 80-100 year old mains to fix.

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    It’s interesting that even with gas at such a high price, Suncor were able to charge TTC a premium for the biodiesel. It could be that TTC’s fuel contract is too large for smaller players who derive their fuel from waste rather than crops to compete. The TTC’s report on the proposed ending of BD use was interesting and unless there are experts on the fuel market out there it’s hard to argue with their choice.