Politics
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Who is listening to the public’s petitions?
On Tuesday afternoon, interventionist group Streets Are For People! celebrated Earth Day by presenting their contentious petition to the Ontario...
By Patricia Simoes -
Councillor: Sun scorched taxpayers
The Toronto Sun, according to Councillor Howard Moscoe, stiffed Toronto taxpayers by neglecting to pay three months of its taxpayer-subsidized rent for an...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
“Will the Premier commit to providing 50% provincial operating funds for municipal public transit?â€
As Toronto Star columnist Jim Coyle wrote today, the art of asking a good question during question period at Queen’s Park (and Parliament Hill for...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
The ROM CAN… well, pretend to be accessible
I was a bit distracted this morning when I heard CBC radio news report that McGuinty had made some big announcement at the ROM yesterday. And hearing the...
By Leah Sandals -
Negotiating table should stay politician-free
In the mainstream media and the blogosphere, more than a few writers have this demented notion that Mayor David Miller or TTC chairman Adam Giambrone...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
City Clerk slammed by information czar
Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner has rebuked Toronto City Clerk Ulli Watkiss’s attempt to withhold files from a Toronto...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
“Le Toronto artistique”: hors de prix?
Today in the Toronto Star’s op-ed section, Martin Knelman argues that Toronto is finally getting the funds it needs to compete with Montreal as...
By Leah Sandals -
Mississauga not fiscal paradise anymore
The City of Mississauga, hailed by critics of the City of Toronto as a financially sustainable paradise for many years, is now anything but. It’s...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
No TTC strike this week
The Toronto Star is reporting that there will be no TTC strike this week: The union representing Toronto transit workers said today that its members...
By Matthew Blackett -
Anti-Car Petition
Streets Are For People! are once again engaging the public and the government in an effort to disrupt our car-obsessed society. To celebrate Earth Day...
By Patricia Simoes -
Mayor turns to Facebook, YouTube to fight guns
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc06nT2gvjw[/youtube] For years, Mayor David Miller has written to prime ministers (first Paul Martin, now Stephen...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Bicycle Advocacy Workshop at City Hall
Council Chambers, Toronto City Hall (Queen & Bay) Sunday April 13 – 11:00am to 4:00pm Learn how to improve cycling conditions in your Ward...
By Dave Meslin