February 7, 2012 Seeking to give residents more say about what gets built in their neighbourhoods, Toronto city council has asked the province to free the city from the Ontario Municipal Board’s jurisdiction. Council endorsed the proposal in a 34-5 vote on Monday. The vote is expected to prompt talks with the province [...]
February 6, 2012 Newstalk 1010 has learned that TTC Chair Karen Stintz is leading a group of councillors who are looking for a change in transit. She will be tabling a petition at council Monday morning signed by 24 councillors to have a special meeting on the subject at city hall in the coming [...]
February 6, 2012 Two days after Mayor Rob Ford’s administration threatened to unilaterally impose a new contract on the city’s outside workers, both sides reached a tentative four-year agreement that union leaders said entails “numerous concessions” on their part. The result appeared to be a vindication of the city’s hard-ball strategy, which administration [...]
February 6, 2012 Seeking to give residents more say about what gets built in their neighbourhoods, Toronto City Council has asked the province to free the city from the Ontario Municipal Board’s jurisdiction. Council endorsed the proposal in 34-5 vote on Monday. The vote is expected to prompt talks with the province over [...]
February 5, 2012 Dear Residents, For too many years, the question of how to improve and expand Toronto’s transit system has shamefully been used as a political football. One government sets out a plan, the next scraps it, and then the next commissions yet another report. I believe Torontonians are [...]
Councillor Josh Matlow speaksabout abolishing the Ontario Municipal Board at Toronto City Council on February 6, 2012.
Dear Friends and Residents, I'm happy to report to you that after a marathon round of negotiations that went all night and into this morning, the City of Toronto and CUPE 416 (outside workers) arrived at a tentative contract that will now have to be ratified by both the union and city council. Therefore, [...]
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January 30, 2012 Mayor Rob Ford says he has the authority to unilaterally kill Transit City. His opponents on council and now an independently commissioned municipal lawyer say he was out of bounds. “Nowhere was it written that the mayor has authority to unilaterally create transit policy for the City of Toronto,” says [...]
Dear residents, Many of you have asked me what services may be affected if there is a strike by, or lockout of, the City of Toronto's outdoor workers.The first legal date for a lockout would be February 5th, 2012. The City has announced that it will impose a new contract and the union has [...]
