TED ROGERS WAY
• Now it’s really Mr. Rogers’ neighbourhood [ National Post ]
• Section of Jarvis renamed for late Ted Rogers [ Toronto Star ]
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
• City council bans corporate, union political donations [ Globe & Mail ]
• Toronto bans campaign contributions from corporations and unions [ Toronto Star ]
• City clamps down on election donors [ Toronto Star ]
CITY HALL
• What’s on the table for the mayor’s race [ Now Magazine ]
• Toronto council set to vote on equitable ice time [ Globe & Mail ]
• The council that couldn’t decide anything [ National Post ]
• DEPUTY MAYOR EYES CURB ON MEDIA [ National Post ]
ARCHITECTURE / INFRASTRUCUTRE
• Toronto’s history finally has a future [ Eye Weekly ]
• Homeless centre costs worry councillors [ Toronto Sun ]
• Price of shelter doubles to $10M as reno costs soar [ National Post ]
• Wellesley housing fix [ Now Magazine ]
• Cliff hangar: Who will save historic structures from nasty development? [ Now Magazine ]
TRANSIT
• Bob Kinnear re-elected as TTC union president [ Toronto Star ]
• Port cuts tidy land deal [ Now Magazine ]
• Looking beyond LRTs as we ride the rocket into the next decade [ Eye Weekly ]
• Greyhound to bring in service reductions in Ontario [ Toronto Star ]
OTHER NEWS
• Wildlife removed from humane society [ National Post ]
• Supporters rally around Mayor McCallion [ National Post ]
• Zoo elephant deaths spark call for shutdown [ Toronto Star ]
• Warnings about humane society shelter ignored [ Toronto Star ]
• New measure for the pain of poverty [ Toronto Star ]
• James: Girls’ fight for ice time may be tip of iceberg [ Toronto Star ]
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Curb on Media? Just what is Joe thinking?
hate to say it, but next time bob puts transit operators on an unnecessary and pointless strike, then they brought any abuse they get from the public on themselves.
Have to hand it to Joe, he’s a laugh a minute sort of guy. I don’t know what is funnier, him thinking he has a chance at being Mayor or the idea that anyone would trust him to control the media. All that can be said is there would need be a lot of media ‘curbing’ for him to stand a chance. Maybe that’s what he was thinking?
Re, Cost over runs at Shelter and St. Clair LRT. I attended Mihevc’s Barns session the other week and pointed out a key problem. I hate to suggest that Toronto needs a new job position but it does. The ‘Office of Construction Co ordination,” would be the overseer and driver of projects like St. Clair where co-ordinatation of the many City Agencies and private utilities that are involved. Right now each ABC has it’s own little kingdom and there are constant turf wars, delays and cost increases because no one is in charge. The Co- ordinator would have the power to rule on disputes and look after the wider City interest. The way it is now each ABC fights for it’s own turf and budget priority and the fact that there is only one taxpayer is lost.
The Pantalone article reads as one long “that’s a nice free press at election time you got there. Shame if anything happened to it” statement. A non-proposal proposal.
If this was some nobody it wouldn’t be worth commenting on, but this is the Deputy Mayor, a possible Mayoral candidate and someone who has attracted substantial and in my view warranted media scrutiny of late.