By Dale Duncan
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: June 29, 2007
Don’t trash the new waste plan For those of you disappointed with the new garbage collection system city council approved by a vote of 26-18 on June...
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City Hall: The executive committee’s take on the climate change action plan
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Here’s what some councillors had to say about the Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Energy Action Plan, which...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: June 22, 2007
Beauty is only skin deep If I had a dollar for every time I heard the term “architectural excellence†referring to development along the waterfront...
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City Hall: New garbage collection system approved by council
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. By a vote of 26-18, city council approved a new pay-as-you-throw garbage collection system before breaking for lunch today...
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Planning ahead
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. This week I wrote about a group called People Planning Toronto (PPT for short), who held a neighbourhood summit May 26 to...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: June 8th
Planning ahead Amid the glamour that comes with the opening of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal at the ROM, it’s easy to forget that, despite the...
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City Hall: Have public meetings gone to the dogs?
Cross-posted from Eye Weekly. The first in a series of community consultation meetings on the People, Dogs and Parks Strategy takes place tonight in...
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Dale Duncan at City Hall: June 2
How hard is it to paint a line on the road? Toronto is already currently ranked as one of the five most-clogged cities in North America, and with 3...
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The dark crystal
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Love it or hate it, the ROM’s new addition looks like a giant crystal, and, ugly or not, that makes the new building...
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Little box in the big city
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. In an effort to break into the urban market, big-box stores are learning to adapt to the big city, a trend that has yet to...
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City Hall: Surprise, surprise — street furniture deal gets go ahead
Cross-posted from Eye Daily At approximately 5:15pm, City Council voted to sign a 20-year contract with the ad company Astral Media Outdoor to supply our...
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City Hall: Up for debate this week
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. City Hall will be abuzz this week, with council scheduled to meet both tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday and a Budget...