By Dale Duncan
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: May 17, 2007
The big city fights the big box If the city were serious about combatting climate change, it would ban big box stores from setting up shop within its...
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City Hall: Big city mayors go green
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. John Barber has a good column in today’s Globe and Mail on the important role that city’s play in fighting...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: May 10
You can dance if you want to (but take your aggression inside) Adam Vaughan is not trying to ban dancing in the city. He’s quick to point this out...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: May 3, 2007
Vote Desmond Cole! Everyone who attended the screening of the documentary City Idol, which had its world premiere April 26 as part of the Hot Docs film...
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City Hall: Bob Hunter McDonald’s Environment Days?
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. When I arrived at City Hall yesterday, members of council’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee were discussing...
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Numbers on street furniture
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Yesterday, the executive committee approved signing the 20-year, multi-million dollar street furniture contract with Astral...
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City Hall: The TTC wants your complaints
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. The TTC is planning to conduct a survey asking riders about the cleanliness and state of repair of its stations and...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: April 19 2007
Spinning garbage numbers OK, so Toronto may be slow to build bike lanes. And our transit system could use a lot of work. And, sure, our mayor may not be...
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City Hall: Tapping into the transportation budget
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. This week, I wrote about a group called Green Here that is working to reforest its Davenport neighbourhood. One of the...
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City Hall: What trees have in common with potholes
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Glenn De Baeremaeker has declared that any pothole reported to the city will be filled in four days. (You can read about the...
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City Hall: The beginning of the end for street furniture?
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Rami Tabello the hardworking activist behind the ingenious website illegalsigns.ca is being threatened by outdoor advertising...
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City Hall: Poop and scoop and take it home
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. The problem of dogs in parks just got bigger. A recent trash audit done in Toronto parks (which I wrote about in a recent...