CLEAN STREETS
• Snow, snow, stay away, we can’t afford cleanup [ Toronto Star ]
• Junking old bins for new creates waits [ Toronto Star ]
NEIGHBOURHOODS / COMMUNITIES
• And to all of Parkdale a good night [ Toronto Star ]
• Community Centre 55 gets behind Santa [ National Post ]
• Hockey program aims to put kids on ice [ Toronto Sun ]
OTHER NEWS
• THS workers can return to work, judge rules [ Globe & Mail ]
• Discenza ‘excited’ to succeed Bryant as chief executive of Invest Toronto [ National Post ]
• A tiny, perfect City Hall [ Toronto Sun ]
• Infamous bike shop picked clean [ Toronto Sun ]
2 comments
Excellent letter in today’s Globe by former TO mayor John Sewell regarding the police budget.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/copping-a-plea/article1409808/
Crime in the city is down; what’s out of control and needs to brought under close scrutiny is the police budget. Yeah, there are those who say that you can’t cut costs without cutting service. But that attitude ignores the question of whether the service is worth having in the first place (of course I think it is with respect to police), or whether service beyond a certain point is actually productive (I think police service has surpassed this point), or can be provided in other ways (eg cops on road construction sites…yes, I know that the costs are passed on to the construction company, but anyone who can’t acknowledge, like Chief Blair apparently can’t, that these costs are passed on to the public, is being very disengenuous.)
Here’s an idea: let’s let poor people on social assitance wear the vest and ignore traffic while they sip coffee and collect exorbitant pay… bonus is that the city would claw back 50% of their earnings and free up police to do police work.