Politics
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POLL: Should parking be removed from main streets?
There is constant debate, among those who care about traffic flow, about whether parking should be allowed on streets that share bus and streetcar routes...
By Spacing -
BrrrBikeFriday!
This Friday is BikeFriday, the frozen edition. Actually, it is not very cold at all. This Friday is expected to be a balmy 2 degrees Celsius. So get out...
By Tammy Thorne -
Sponsor a Councillor
Today’s Executive Committee agenda is stacked. There’s the capital budget, union station revitalization, increased funding to the lobbyist...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Cities & Ottawa
The Star’s business columnist David Olive wrote a piece about the extreme antipathy in Canada directed towards cities on Saturday: Outside Canada...
By Shawn Micallef -
Ottawa is 1978
I took the train to Ottawa a few weeks ago, a city I’ve only visited on two other occasions (once to write a story about the G20 Summit in November...
By Shawn Micallef -
Amen!
Toronto City Councillor and Budget Chief Shelley Carroll released a statement this afternoon in response to federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty telling...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Civic Double Jeopardy
I must have blinked during the restructuring of City Council’s governance model because I was shocked when I was told there wouldn’t be...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
2008 Budget In Transit
Transit activist Steve Munro has some very good updates for the 2008 TTC budget over at his website. It will be a very busy time for the TTC, as it not...
By Sean Marshall -
Vancouver’s next tower and thoughts high up
The above graphic might look like the cover of an Isaac Asimov book, but its actually noted west coast architect Richard Henriquez’s proposal for an...
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Budget committee backs down from funding bikes
We asked and asked. They listened (Councillor Perks did, anyway). But, alas, the Star reported this morning “Bike plan hits funding wall“: The...
By Tammy Thorne -
Lobbying for a registry: Exhibit B
The MFP scandal is Exhibit A in the case for a lobbyist registry at the City of Toronto. Exhibit B was presented yesterday by Councillor Norm Kelly, who...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
A public-private re-Union
Calling Union Station a gateway to Toronto, Mayor David Miller unveiled the revitalization plan for Union Station in the heritage building’s Great...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler