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Here are a few headlines worth following today, and I’d love to hear your comments about:<\/p>\n

The City of Toronto Act: <\/strong>the new law passed yesterday at Queen’s Park will allow the city to make its own decisions on taxation and laws. Generally, this should be good for the City but many of the politicians involved have only given it lukewarm support. From our perspective it looks like a good start, as it will allow the city to set the rules about development (possibly decreasing the power of the OMB). Here’s the Star’s take on it<\/a>, and here’s<\/a> another from the Globe and Mail.<\/p>\n

A profile of architect Jack Diamond:<\/strong> The creator of the new Opera House gets the fluff treatment<\/a> in the Star today.<\/p>\n

A new highway north of Toronto?<\/strong> Greater Toronto needs a major new expressway<\/a> to serve the swelling urban region and Ottawa is ready to pay a share, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says. But he says, “We do have a need for highways outside the city of Toronto…. I wouldn’t even call them highways, but they need to be transitways. I do not think we’ll see a significant public highway built in southern Ontario in the future without public transit as part of that right-of-way,” he said. Memo to Flaherty: more roads means more room for more cars which can only mean more pollution. Study after study show that creating more roads does not ease traffic pressures but only creates more of it. We only need those transit right-of-ways you are talking about (oddly enough, this is coming from a person who helped put the TTC in the dire financial straights when he was a high-ranking cabinet minister in Mike Harris’ provincial government).<\/p>\n

Blog TO has some great videos<\/a> of the Four Sisters smoke stacks coming down<\/strong> as the Lakeview Power Station (a decommissioned coal generator) was demolished yesterday morning. Also check out Murray Campbell’s column<\/a> in the Globe and Mail today — it talks about the hypocritical symbolism of the station’s demise.<\/p>\n

Graffiti to the rescue:<\/strong> The Globe has a profile<\/a> of the Style in Progress’ Bell box mural project. “This project is redemption for me,” says one graf artist. “It means the City of Toronto is finally condoning graffiti art as an art form. We are finally acknowledging that graffiti artists help our city.”<\/p>\n

This is not a public space issue, but I feel a need to respond: mayoral candidate Jane Pitfield says Toronto unions have become outdated<\/strong>. [Articles in The Star<\/a> and the Globe and Mail<\/a>] Say what? Certainly, unions in Toronto are part of the power structure and have done some stupid things (see TTC wildcat strike). But to say they are outdated is one of the most insane things I’ve heard Lady Jane spit out. I will use one example to rip her a new one: my mother worked for the City for 10 years in the Public Health department and was sadly stricken with a rare illness in the late-80s. She was supposed to go back to work within a month of her operation — instead she has slowly deteriorated over the last 18 years and is now in a wheelchair and often bed-ridden for weeks at a time. Her living and medical expenses are paid for by her disability coverage that the union fought so hard to put in place in the 1960s and 70s. Without the collective help from the union and the financial assistance built into the CBA, she would have been a single mom left with $15,000 of medical bills a year, no income, and a son to look after as he was just about to enter university. How freakin’ outdated is that, Jane? Unions may at times seem bloated and self-serving, but there is another side to them that has very real benefits that make all the difference in the world to its members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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