Politics
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Planning for bikes
Yesterday in Toronto, the Bikeway Planning and Development Workshop was held at Ontario Place gathering 30 municipal planners and transportation planners...
By Matthew Blackett -
More St. Clair ROW stuff
The Globe and Mail wrote about the City of Toronto’s plan to challenge the three-panel judges decision to stop construction of the St. Clair...
By Matthew Blackett -
Welcome In My Back Yard
Catherine Porter considers the power of Nimbyism in today’s Toronto Star. It’s about time Toronto learned to love itself and the complexities...
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The city’s tax straightjacket
Royson James wrote an interesting explanation of Toronto’s confusing property tax system today, as property owners across the city received their...
By Dylan Reid -
Thank you, John Sewell
John Sewell, the former mayor of Toronto from 1979-81, has been writing about city issues for Globe and Mail, Eye Weekly and NOW for 18 years. This week...
By Matthew Blackett -
Toronto’s Bike Plan gets the gears
Spacing managing editor Dale Duncan wrote in Eye Weely about Toronto’s Bike Plan, and the bike lane proposal that would stretch across Bloor and the...
By Matthew Blackett -
Private money in public infrastructure
Christopher Hume, in the Star today, writes about the need for the private sector to invest in building Toronto’s future infrastructure. I’m...
By Matthew Blackett -
More on Montreal Civic Politics
If you’re not busy planning your St. Clair boycott, let your mind wander up the 401 again. In response to my post about Projet Montreal below, and...
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St. Clair streetcar construction stopped by judges
A three-judge panel ruled Tuesday that the TTC must stop construction on the St. Clair dedicated streetcar lanes. The group Save Our St. Clair (SOS), who...
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ProJet Montréal
It’s kind of nice that, at least officially, party politics is not a lynchpin of Canadian municipal elections. Watching the post-Katrina terror...
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Squabble on the waterfront
As usual, whenever there is talk about Toronto’s waterfront, sniping and mixed messages are sure to follow. In the Toronto Star today, Christopher...
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Sidewalk art in Ward 19
City Councillor Joe Pantelone’s office (ward 19) have a neat pilot project going on: they have convinced Bell to let them hire local artists to...
By Matthew Blackett