Politics
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Cyclist Profile – Councillor Adrian Heaps
During Bike Week, and possibly beyond, I will feature some cyclist profiles here on the wire. These will be profiles of regular people who ride bikes in...
By Tammy Thorne -
Thursday’s Headlines
• Taking a slow cycle in memoriam [ Toronto Star ] • Reclaiming the lake with new HtO waterfront park [ Toronto Star ] • Pug Awards honour...
By Julie Yamin -
Cyclist Profile – Daniel Egan
During Bike Week, and possibly beyond, I will feature some cyclist profiles here on the wire. These will be profiles of regular people who ride bikes in...
By Tammy Thorne -
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...
By Dale Duncan -
Monday’s Headlines
• Dion rejects cities’ call for 1 cent of GST [ Toronto Star ] • Housing protest ends in four arrests [ Toronto Star ] • Who’ll...
By Julie Yamin -
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