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By Dale Duncan

  • Solar in the city

    Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Last week, the Government Management Committee (usually one of the more boring committees of council) approved a strategy to...

  • Hazel ready to raise hell

    Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion is ready to take on federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Prime Minister Stephen...

  • HOT plans for affordable housing

    Cross-posted from Eye Daily. With the vote on Toronto’s new “revenue tools” out of the way, the city can finally start concentrating on other...

  • How about roundabouts?

    Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Last week, the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee voted to get staff to do a study on the feasibility of installing...

  • Dale Duncan at City Hall: Condo Craze

    Not all wards are treated equally. Take Ward 20, watched over by well-known feather-ruffler Adam Vaughan. As of Oct. 27, the councillor had counted 71...

  • Killer traffic: By the numbers

    Cross-posted from Eye Daily. 1,700: The number of premature deaths in Toronto that exposure to smog pollutants contribute to each year. 6,000: The number...

  • 2008 capital budget — prepare your deputations now

    Cross-posted from Eye Daily. November 13 — mark it in your calendars. That’s the day the city has set aside for Torontonians tell the budget...

  • Get down with downspout disconnection

    Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Illegaldownspouts.ca — okay, so this website doesn’t really exist, but in a matter of three years it might. This...

  • TTC takeover may be tempting

    Cross-posted from Eye Daily. The Toronto Star is in a tizzy over speculation that the province may want to upload responsibility of our beloved TTC to the...

  • Never ending tax talk

    Cross-posted from Eye Daily. In the not-so-far-off past, any suggestion of new taxes, any at all, would be political suicide. Today, in light of all the...

  • Speaking up on taxes

    Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Eight prominent developers — the kind of professionals who worry about how the land transfer tax (LLT) will affect...

  • Mayor reveals independent panel to study the city’s books

    Cross-posted from Eye Daily. This morning Mayor David Miller announced the panel of experts that will review the city’s financial books to see...