TTC
• TTC wants $46M more [ Toronto Sun ]
• TTC chair confident budget will pass [ Globe & Mail ]
• TTC station to bring ‘Europe’ to Vaughan [ Globe & Mail ]
BIKE THEFT
• Bike thief gets 30 months [ Toronto Star ]
• Igor Kenk pleads guilty [ Globe & Mail ]
MAYORAL RACE
• Councillor Giambrone lining up union endorsements for mayoral bid [ National Post ]
• Emails send wrong message for Rocco Rossi [ Toronto Star ]
OTHER NEWS
• City Hall killed my business [ Toronto Sun ]
• Recycling fee unfair, say landlords [ National Post ]
• Charity offers free-lunch coupons for homeless [ National Post ]
• Telus shores up city core [ Globe & Mail ]
• Anger as historic home’s features hacked away [ Toronto Star ]
• Fiorito: Housing committee’s steering is off course [ Toronto Star ]
• T.O. cyclists’ pet peeves list compiled by police traffic services [ Toronto Star ]
• Cities hold key to green dream [ Toronto Star ]
• Keeping David Pecaut’s dream alive [ Toronto Star ]
• Miller denies he has eco-job lined up [ National Post]
5 comments
Hmm… The police officer’s list of top ten cyclist peeves doesn’t have the police as one of them: for lack of traffic enforcement, bike lane parking for donuts, and an ambivalence at best to cyclists due to the common 905 residence of cops…
“In that campaign, Mr. Miller staffed five campaign offices across Toronto with employees seconded from unions that supported Mr. Miller. Those employees received a salary from their union, but punched the clock at Mr. Miller’s election offices– including Andrea Addario, Mr. Miller’s communications director, who received a salary from CUPE. A source who worked to elect Mr. Miller in 2003 noted Mr. Giambrone’s potential union endorsements bring with them the same promise.”
I hope Councillor Giambrone will assure us all that he will not in fact avail of in-kind services in this manner.
Wouldn’t the ban on union donations prevent staff from unions being paid to work for candidates this time around?
Re: “City Hall Killed My Business” story in the Sun. First, Councillor Giambrone has the parking regulations on Dundas St. W. changed because he says streetcars need to go faster along this stretch. (Interesting how he isn’t proposing the same changes for College st. even though there’s a streetcar running on it as well.) Now we learn that transit won’t be running along this stretch of Dundas until next summer because of infrastructure work. Is there anything else this good Councillor can do to screw this area over?
Agree with Mark that press should be asking the question of Candidates. The idea that CUPE members worked directly for the Mayor’s campaign must somehow be a conflict of interest. Union and corporate employees should both be covered by ban.
Mark,
You should put this issue in the context of my contracting ‘hobby horse.’Go to Deputations on openshop.ca and look at Executive Committee Dec. 3, 2009. $1.2 Billion a year tendered with Buiding Trade only restrictions; the equivalent of 15,000 jobs reserved for the Mayor’s political friends and denied to those who don’t want to join the union of his choice.
After the 2003 election, Ian Urquart of the Star did a piece explaining that Tory did as well as he did because Labourers’ Local 183 who bid work with no restrictions supported him and gave him instant, “feet on the street.” Meanwhile the Building Trades who have the tendering restrictions supported Miller. Since the last election the Leadership of 183 has been purged by the forces of the International Labourers and are no longer a factor.