Politics
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Police board, association go public with contract talks
The chair of the Toronto Police Services Board fired off a public statement this afternoon that condemned the Toronto Police Association for starting...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Why Toronto’s street-side trees are dying, part CXVIII
Five street trees in planter boxes at Yonge and Finch, August 2007 Last summer I wrote a post about a sad patch of street trees near the southwest corner...
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City Manager resigns
Updated (3:55PM) At a media conference held over the lunch hour, Mayor David Miller announced that Shirley Hoy, the City of Toronto’s City Manager...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
POLL: Will Igor bust result in fewer stolen bikes?
As Spacing’s Dylan Reid wrote the other day, the bust of Igor’s bike shop has sent a sigh of relief through the cycling community. One of the...
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ROM quietly raises admission prices… again
I was at the Royal Ontario Museum earlier today for a media view and was shocked to see that the admission price has quietly risen 10% or more across the...
By Leah Sandals -
POLL: Should Eglinton be an LRT route or a subway?
A Spacing-produced rendering of LRT service on Eglinton east of Laird Some of you may have saw the article in our headlines post about the TTC and...
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BREAKING NEWS: TTC suspends streetcar purchases; bids non-compliant
A Siemens rendering from 2007 of a possible new TTC streetcar This rather interesting tidbit of TTC news just arrived in Spacing’s inbox: The...
By Matthew Blackett -
This Ain’t the St. Lawrence Market
In 1988, Toronto City Council wanted to rescue a Queen West heritage site by making it into a destination market, similar to the St. Lawrence Market...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Rate your councillor
A web site called RateYourCouncillor.com recently started up and it wants you to, you guessed it, rate your councillor. While unclear who or what is...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Ballot questions
The mayoral aspirations of Minister George Smitherman and, to a lesser extent, Michael Pinball Clemons, have been the subject of dozens of column inches...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Rainbow Flag Raising and Pride Week Proclamation
This afternoon I attended the Rainbow Flag Raising and Pride Week Proclamation in front of City Hall at Nathan Phillips Square. The event is the official...
By Matthew Hague -
POLL: Your thoughts on tearing down the Gardiner
Urban Affairs critic Christopher Hume, in today’s Toronto Star, expressed his disappointment that local decision-makers lack the gumption to do the...
By Spacing