Politics
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Head-chopping city-fed headlines
While the graphic Spacing editor Dale Duncan posted yesterday of Hazel McCallion wrestling Jim Flaherty definitely made me smile, the front-page headline...
By Leah Sandals -
Hazel ready to raise hell
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion is ready to take on federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Prime Minister Stephen...
By Dale Duncan -
HOT plans for affordable housing
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. With the vote on Toronto’s new “revenue tools†out of the way, the city can finally start concentrating on other...
By Dale Duncan -
How about roundabouts?
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Last week, the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee voted to get staff to do a study on the feasibility of installing...
By Dale Duncan -
Dale Duncan at City Hall: Condo Craze
Not all wards are treated equally. Take Ward 20, watched over by well-known feather-ruffler Adam Vaughan. As of Oct. 27, the councillor had counted 71...
By Dale Duncan -
“We can’t afford to do business this way”
Toronto-based think tank the Wellesley Institute has published a landmark report on the administrative burden felt by community organizations that rely on...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
Toronto needs to cut vehicle emissions by 30%: report
The City of Toronto released a report today from Toronto’s medical officer of health, Dr. David McKeown, that states nearly 200 lives a year and $1...
By Matthew Blackett -
Killer traffic: By the numbers
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. 1,700: The number of premature deaths in Toronto that exposure to smog pollutants contribute to each year. 6,000: The number...
By Dale Duncan -
Harper to Toronto: You’re Fired
On one of those thick and hot August evenings where you sweat standing still the Conservative candidate for Toronto Centre came to our door. I was a...
By Shawn Micallef -
Woulda, shoulda, coulda, didn’t
Chalk this up to a “shoulda been” election promise. Yesterday, Ontario NDP leader Howard Hampton called on Premier Dalton McGuinty to raise...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
FairDevelopmentCharges.to
For those of us who find fault with the real estate and development industries for being more concerned with building profits than cities, October was our...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
2008 capital budget — prepare your deputations now
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. November 13 — mark it in your calendars. That’s the day the city has set aside for Torontonians tell the budget...
By Dale Duncan