Date: Thursday December 1, 2011 Time: 6:00 to 9:00 pm Location: Room 308-309 Metro Hall, 55 John Street – SE corner John St and King St The City is reviewing its Official Plan. As part of this review we are doing a full examination and updating of the Official Plan’s Heritage policies with the [...]
November 7, 2011 On the agenda for the next City of Toronto Planning and Growth Management Committee meeting on Nov. 8 is a motion to abolish the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB). Under the current system, developers have little incentive to negotiate in good faith with the city, a process they see simply as a [...]
November 4, 2011 Taxpayers won’t be on the hook for the cost of Mayor Rob Ford’s gold-letter business cards. The cost of the cards, printed by Ford’s family business Deco Labels, showed up in the mayor’s office budget expenses last week. […]
Dear residents, I'm donating my face for the month of Movember to help fight prostate cancer for my friends and family who have been affected by this disease. Please check my page throughout this month to see updated photos on my mustache's progress. More importantly, please contribute whatever you're able to this very important [...]
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Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and I have submitted a motion to free Toronto’s planning decisions from the purview of the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) – the quasi-judicial, anti-democratic body that has final say over local planning decisions. This motion will be debated at the Wednesday, November 8th meeting of the Planning and Growth Committee. At this [...]
October 31, 2011 The Toronto Star recently reported that the city’s beleaguered Mayor, Rob Ford, has stumbled yet again. The mayor, it seems, opted not to use the city’s standard (cheap) method of having business cards printed. Instead, he opted to go his own route. That might not be a surprising move, coming from [...]
October 26, 2011 There are 29,000 Catholics held captive behind a rusty, two-metre high, chain-link fence in the middle of downtown Toronto. Mind you, they’re not clamouring to get out. They’re dead and buried in St. Michael’s Cemetery, a little south of St. Clair Avenue and hidden behind the stores on the west side of [...]
October 26, 2011 Yesterday city council voted in favour of banning the sale of shark fin products within the limits of Toronto. The proposal passed easily, with a vote of 38 to 4, despite a warning from the city staff that Toronto may have difficulties not only enforcing the bylaw but also dealing with [...]
October 28, 2011 Mayor Rob Ford has outsourced the printing of business cards for himself and his staff to his family’s printing company, billing taxpayers up to four times as much per card as councillors who have them printed by the city. Expense records released Friday include an Aug. 29 invoice from Deco Label [...]
