STRIKE
• Premier pleased with progress in Toronto strike talks [ Globe & Mail ]
• Sick days still a sticking point [ Toronto Star ]
• It’s time for the unions to admit they’ve lost [ Globe & Mail ]
• Ignoring the recession [ Globe & Mail ]
• Toronto on strike: No daycare, camps or pools, but the homeless are happy [ National Post ]
• Toronto on strike: The city’s unsung civic heroes [ National Post ]
• Trash services duck provincial approval [ Toronto Star ]
• Strike slows low-income housing projects [ Globe & Mail ]
• At Moss Park, the sound and fury signify nothing [ Globe & Mail ]
• McGuinty encouraged by signs of progress [ Toronto Sun ]
• End the Toronto strike now [ Toronto Sun ]
• Not in my backyard, but yours is OK [ National Post ]
• Proof that Toronto strikers are a bunch of pussycats [ National Post ]
• ‘Hoodlums’ shut down waste firms [ Toronto Sun ]
CITY POLITICS
• Is Smitherman aiming for City Hall? [ Toronto Star ]
• GTA needs economic ‘war cabinet’ [ Toronto Star ]
• Council session sought [ National Post ]
• Clean sweet sparks mayoral rumours [ Toronto Sun ]
• I have 18, do I hear 23? [ Globe & Mail ]
• Toronto’s MPP’s cleanup team tackles riding [ National Post ]
OTHER NEWS
• Mental health: a housing issue [ Toronto Star ]
• Caribana festival unfazed by strike [ Toronto Star ]
• Designed for urban buyers [ Globe & Mail ]
• Hand-well problem may look pedestrian, but it’s razor sharp [ Toronto Star ]
• Caribana jumpstart [ Toronto Sun ]
• Flames ‘as high as house’ [ Toronto Sun ]
One comment
Re. “GTA Needs war cabinet”
Looking for “big business” to be the saviour for Toronto and the GTA is a recipe for disaster….
“Jane Jacobs’s book The Economy of Cities, in which she argued that cities have always been places where new industries were invented before being “farmed out†to the countryside when their growth eventually made them too cumbersome to maintain within a dense urban environment. Cities, Jacobs explained, are the natural incubators of new businessesâ€â€places where the rapid pace of life, face-to-face contact, and concentration of ambitious people come together to create new ways of doing things”
http://www.city-journal.org/article01.php?aid=1515
Toronto continues to kill small businesses with its high taxes. I wish that the city would not selectively use Jane’s ideas.