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GREEN BINS
• Miller defends green bins [ Toronto Star ]
• Green bins need impartial review [ Toronto Star ]

STRIKE
• Public is on city’s side, mayor says [ Toronto Star ]
• What the garbage strike can teach us [ Toronto Star ]
• Waste sites face Environmental Ministry crackdown [ Globe & Mail ]
• Stintz, Hudak want “a Toronto that works” [ Globe & Mail ]
• Toronto on Strike: trying to contain trash [ National Post ]
• Toronto on Strike: come pay your parking tickets [ National Post ]
• Toronto on Strike: political one-upmanship [ National Post ]
• 200 new dumps get OK [ Toronto Sun ]
• Mayor agrees to meeting [ Toronto Sun ]
• Praise for Toronto’s strike plan [ Toronto Sun ]
• Silly rules make CUPE strike a no-brainer [ Toronto Sun ]
• Dumping on the ‘centre of the universe’ [ Metro ]
• Toronto civic strike must ‘unfold’: McGuinty [ CBC ]

OTHER NEWS
• Condo sign forces TTC riders to play peekaboo [ Toronto Star ]
• Community housing, a whirlpool of frustration [ Toronto Star ]
• Wall of building collapses [ Globe & Mail ]
• Grocers go urban [ National Post ]
• Toughest ‘hoods get $10M [ Toronto Sun ]
• Queen’s Park, Ottawa to give $29M each to T.O. facilities [ Toronto Sun ]
• Milestone reached for Corus building [ Toronto Sun ]
• Landlords put on notice [ Toronto Sun ]

6 comments

  1. once again, another Toronto Sun WTF: Praise for Toronto’s strike plan

    Praise? For Toronto? From the Sun? WTF???

    Not even any union bashing in there either!

  3. I know I whine at times about Toronto’s lack of street trees or transit signs or other such details, but I’ve always taken immense pride in the city’s amazing abundance of well-priced, well-designed urban grocery stores. Whatever you think of Sobey’s, Loblaws, Metro and their ilk, the fact that these continue to multiply and improve within the old city of Toronto is something to celebrate.

    It’s not a sexy statistic but I’m pretty sure that no US city can match Toronto for downtown or urban-context grocery stores. Cities that are working hard to revive their downtowns by adding lofts, parks, LRT etc. like St. Louis or Milwaukee are years from getting a suburban-format downtown supermarket, and Detroit no longer has a single supermarket within the entire city limits. Even Chicago can’t match Toronto for the sheer number of regular, boring but absolutely necessary “normal” supermarkets in the core.

    Now if only there was a way to add a Trader Joe’s in T.O…

  4. Re: Courus,

    What a load of bull. This is symbolic, not of success but of failure. The city had to pay to foot the development bill, extend tax breaks only to move jobs from various locales in the city to a single location. It is not job creation.

    The only truth in Millers statements are that it represents the future of Toronto. The only commercial development that will happen is that done by the government.

  5. Why the Silence?

    Is the fact that the Mayor is getting extremely bad press, depress regular commentators from expressing their opinions?

    Andrew,
    I think that the Sun article is more praise for the efforts of non union staff who keep the City going yet were stiffed by the Mayor. It is not a complement to the Mayor but an indictment.

    I think more relevant is that the Star has made a radical turn against him and all the press is feeding of his weakness.

    I think he deserves it but some of the readers must diagree, so let’s hear about it.

  6. The article on grocery stores is interesting, but I wish there was less focus on trying to make grocery stores sexy, and more focus on the urban design aspects (particularly the move away from the model of “fewer and larger”/auto scale to “more and smaller”/neighbourhood scale).