Kids play ball hockey near Yonge and Eglinton in this file photo. The city is under pressure to drop the city wide ban on street hockey. by David Rider, Toronto Star Urban Affairs Bureau Chief A Toronto councillor hopes to stickhandle through bureaucratic hand-wringing over legalizing ball hockey on city streets. A staff report going [...]
FYI- SPECIAL PLANNING AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MAY 10, 2011 A special meeting of the Planning and Growth Management Committee will be held on Tuesday, May 10, 2011, at 2:00 p.m., in Committee Room 1, 2nd Floor, Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West, Toronto, to hear from the public and consider whether to recommend that [...]
Josh Matlow City Hall Diary Being a city councillor comes with daily important responsibilities, hourly demands and a duty to be present for residents. But even politicians need a vacation once in a while to recharge their batteries and spend some time with family. So for one week I escaped with my wife to Florida [...]
by Ward 22 artists (Forest Hill PS students) Maya Abramson & Hannah Bernstein
Toronto residents who volunteer on a batch of citizen advisory committees are speaking out against a proposal to scrap most of the groups. At the request of Mayor Rob Ford, city staff have reviewed the municipality’s complement of advisory bodies from the last term of council and are recommending that 21 of them be cancelled. [...]
Josh Matlow City Hall Diary Only five months after Toronto’s municipal election, many city councillors are back knocking at voters’ doors. But this time, they’re helping their friends running in the federal election. For full disclosure, I’ll be supporting the Liberal MP in my riding, Dr. Carolyn Bennett. Of all of Toronto’s councillors, one may [...]
Join Josh Matlow for Toronto's 20-Minute Makeover Friday, April 15th at 2:00 pm Warm weather has arrived and snow banks have melted to reveal a winter's worth of debris and litter. This is our opportunity to get involved and help keep Toronto clean. The City's annual spring clean-up events are a great way to get [...]
Eglinton Crosstown Community Update Meeting When: Tuesday, April 26 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Where: St. Clement's School, Auditorium 21 St. Clements Avenue (north of Yonge and Eglinton) This meeting is for members of the community to learn more about the Crosstown, which will provide rapid underground transit across the Eglinton corridor, linking subway lines and [...]
by Councillor Josh Matlow for the Town Crier The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) has stated that customer service is an important part of their mandate and has promised sweeping changes in response to numerous public complaints. When I took office as the new city councillor for Ward 22 St. Paul’s last December, I looked forward to [...]
by John Lorinc Toronto councillors appear to be splitting along partisan lines over whether then-candidate Rob Ford’s decision to allow a family holding company to pay almost $70,000 in election expenses should be reviewed by a compliance auditor appointed under the provisions of the Municipal Elections Act. However, election finance experts say these financing techniques [...]
