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In this week’s NOW<\/em><\/a>, Mike Smith describes our mayor as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a kitten with a mandate — and now, the lieutenants to carry it out.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He writes about David Miller’s new executive committee and his reasoning behind appointing them. Smith also questions Miller’s strategy:<\/p>\n

…in terms of the executive, I wonder if Miller has micromanaged just a bit too much. The placement of right-wingers shows some finesse: the appointment to the straightforward general government committee (chaired by Gloria Lindsay Luby) and the “at large” executive appointment of Norm Kelly both acknowledge and contain the right.But I’m left wondering why someone like Michael Thompson lost out to the lacklustre Kelly. Is Thompson’s apparent ambition for a future shot at Miller’s chair enough to keep a proficient if bombastic councillor out of the fold?And in appointing De Baeremaeker to works, is Miller getting tunnel vision on recycling? The Scarborough councillor is dedicated to the file, no doubt, but there’s more to works than waste diversion. I wonder if Janet Davis or Paula Fletcher couldn’t handle the portfolio with equal environmental aplomb, without his love of funding all infrastructure through advertising.Which raises another question: with council’s new ability — or at least desire — to regulate and reap, have we gained newly empowered advocates or been saddled with a new bureaucracy?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, over at Eye Weekly<\/em><\/a>, Spacing’s own Leah Sandals writes about changes to the Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA). Three of TEA’s full time staff members have left to work for other environmental organizations, and Gord Perks left in August to run for city council. TEA, in large part responsible for our pesticide bylaw, among other feats, has helped to make Toronto a safer and cleaner place. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Toronto should take notice,” Sandals writes, “the city would look a lot different without TEA.”<\/p>\n

The recent departure of some of TEA’s full time staff is daunting, she says, pointing to this past summer when TEA was so short staffed that it didn’t think it could keep its offices open. TEA acknowledged it needs to concentrate on strengthening its volunteer department, something it has failed to do in the past, and guarrantees that 2007 will bring \u00e2\u20ac\u0153concrete results.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Visit TEA’s website<\/a> to learn more about its mission is to promote a greener Toronto. It’s five major campaign areas are: education and action on smog and climate-change, public transit, toxics and urban pesticides, waster reduction and clean water.<\/p>\n

photo from NOW<\/em> by John Scully<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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