The Star
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TTC takeover may be tempting
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. The Toronto Star is in a tizzy over speculation that the province may want to upload responsibility of our beloved TTC to the...
By Dale Duncan -
The origins of Toronto’s manhole covers
Manhole covers are perhaps the ultimate piece of urban infrastructure — specific to cities, they are the portals to a whole world of civic...
By Dylan Reid -
Can naked streets make pedestrians sexy?
The surprising media coverage of the Walk21 conference continued after it was over, with a series of wrap-up pieces over the weekend and in the weeklies...
By Dylan Reid -
Miller allows private donation to open rinks
If there ever was a sign of how desperate the City of Toronto’s financial situation has become: Mayor David Miller has accepted MasterCard’s...
By Matthew Blackett -
Bike lane countdown 2007
This photo was taken by Martin Koob at the City’s cycling consultation session in July. A summary of that consultation can be found here. Remember...
By Tammy Thorne -
Rogue city agency trying to lay waste to Dovercourt streetscape
It was with increasingly incredulous dread that the news of the City of Toronto’s plan to expropriate the Matador on Dovercourt and demolish it for...
By Shawn Micallef -
Carfreedom!
The Sierra Club of Canada is hosting the City of Toronto’s 2007 Car Free Day celebration on Yonge Street and Yonge-Dundas Square on Thursday...
By Tammy Thorne -
McGuinty delivers body blow to municipalities
Within hours of asking whether Dalton McGuinty and John Tory would offer a hand up to Toronto or sucker punch us at this week’s Association of...
By Adam Chaleff-Freudenthaler -
What to do with the Gardiner Expressway?
The Star had an interesting piece in the Sunday paper about what to do with the Gardiner Expressway and how other cities have embraced their elevated...
By Matthew Blackett -
Wakestock leaves amputated island trees in its wake
Wakestock is admittedly not my cup of tea, and if I can avoid it and its fans I will try (see post below), but it’s a big city and there is space...
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And then there were 24?
First Brian Ashton and now Gloria Lindsay-Luby? Lindsay-Luby, a member of City Council’s executive committee, discussed her angst about the land...
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McGuinty to Toronto: use your taxing powers
Premier Dalton McGuinty spoke out today about Toronto City Council’s decision to defer implementing new taxes until after the provincial election on...
By Matthew Blackett