Solid Waste Management continues efforts to increase efficiency by maximizing the automated truck collections. The reconfiguring of the collection routes will require a change in residential collection days for some areas. All households in Ward 22 BETWEEN YONGE AND BAYVIEW will have a change in their pickup. This affects approximately 4,500 homes. (click on [...]
Dear Friends and Residents, I have recently submitted two notices of motion that I would like to share with you. Although they are quite different, they both speak to sharing our limited resources in a thoughtful manner. Notice of Motion: Relieving Congestion by Increasing Fines and Enforcement for Motorists and Delivery Vehicles that Obstruct Traffic [...]
Councillor Josh Matlow wants the City of Toronto to dig into the Melancthon Mega Quarry fight. Matlow will ask councillors on the executive committee next week to demand an environmental assessment of what would be the second-biggest rock quarry in North America before it is built in the Township of Melancthon, north of Toronto, [...]
After being run down twice by cyclists who ran red lights, Emily Niedoba hopes the city will crack down on cyclists who flagrantly ignore the rules of the road. Niedoba, who says she sustained brain injuries, was initially hit by a cyclist in Yorkville who didn’t even bother to check her condition as she lay [...]
The TTC’s former chair says Mayor Ford’s plan to run a subway line into Scarborough isn’t realistic. On Newstalk 1010s The City with councillor Josh Matlow, Adam Giambrone dismissed the plan as too expensive. […]
The architect of Rob Ford’s mayoral campaign will launch a right-wing advocacy firm after the provincial election. Nick Kouvalis told councillor Josh Matlow on Newstalk 1010’s The City, the time is right for the Respect for Taxpayers Action Group—with Torontonians focused on the budget process. […]
Political posturing between Ottawa and Queen’s Park is holding up $481 million in federal-provincial funds to help the homeless and other Ontarians struggling to pay for housing, the Star has learned. The bilateral agreement, signed earlier this summer, is part of a larger federal framework announced in July which sets out how Ottawa and the [...]
With news of federal NDP Leader Jack Layton’s passing Monday morning, many local politicians spoke admiringly about the man who got his start as a city councillor at Toronto city hall in the 1980s. “We lost a great man, a man who probably could have become the prime minister of Canada,” former mayor Mel Lastman [...]
TORONTO, Ont. – Mayor Rob Ford and Premier Dalton McGuinty wrapped up their meeting at Queen’s Park, Wednesday. The two discussed speeding up progress on the Sheppard subway line, including other issues like daycare, public health, Ontario Place and the sale of 900 Community Housing homes. […]
Drivers who stop their cars curbside on busy rush-hour arterials should face a stiff fine, and a greater likelihood of being caught, according to city councillor Josh Matlow. “I’ll often find myself crawling in traffic – assuming it might be an accident or some construction – and then I find out it’s actually some [...]
