Politics
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The Agenda: this week at City Hall
Toronto City Council has a heavy agenda [PDF] to get through at its meeting scheduled to run on Tuesday and Wednesday. Here are highlights of some of the...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Biking in Toronto poster contest
The City has issued a call for submissions for the Biking in Toronto Poster Contest. This coming spring, 3,000 full colour posters will be printed and...
By Tammy Thorne -
POLL: Which new name would you like to see the GTTA adopt?
The other day, Spacing challenged our readers to propose a better name for the former Greater Toronto Transportation Authority (GTTA) now known as...
By Spacing -
Lobbying for a Registry: Exhibit C
I didn’t intend for this to become a recurring feature but it seems Lobbying for a Registry may be just that — at least until there’s a...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
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