Politics
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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...
By Dale Duncan -
Friday’s Headlines
• 12,000 pinpricks of light online to rescue Sam’s classic neon sign [ Toronto Star ] • Luminato sheds light on city life [ Globe and Mail...
By Julie Yamin -
New bike lockers are coming
Councillor A.A. Heaps, the new chair of the Toronto Cycling Committee announced today that the City will be doubling the number of bike lockers around the...
By Tammy Thorne -
Councillor Heaps responds
Update — The revised Terms of Reference have been deferred back to council. Their next meeting is late June. It would seem that the cycling...
By Tammy Thorne -
Cranky about Cycling Committee
Toronto’s new cycling committee chair Councillor A.A. Heaps recently announced that he is revising the committee’s Terms of Reference. Among...
By Tammy Thorne -
Tuesday’s Headlines
• Take a walk on Toronto’s wild side, in good company [ Toronto Star ] • Plastic bag foes steal the show [ Toronto Star ] • Residents...
By Julie Yamin -
Reporting on city hall … from a distance
An online news service in Pasadena, California, has worked out a new way to cover the deadly dull minutiae of city hall business — they have...
By Dylan Reid -
Monday’s Headlines
• When Mies’ tower scraped the sky [ Toronto Star ] • City’s top-ranked services come at a cost, study shows [ Toronto Star ] &bull...
By Julie Yamin -
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...
By Dale Duncan -
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...
By Dale Duncan -
Friday’s Headlines
• Last phases of carpool plan may use existing traffic lanes [ Toronto Star ] • Frugality probe goes ahead [ Toronto Star ] • Ford and...
By Julie Yamin -
Why “Toronto: You Belong Here” Belongs Here, Pt. II
Back in January, a million miles removed from this sticky-tropical Toronto day, I posted about how much I liked the slogan “Toronto: You Belong...
By Leah Sandals