10-minute Grace Period on Parking Tickets Last summer, I supported a new policy that gives Toronto residents a 10-minute grace period after the parking meter expires. I’ve heard from business owners that often people don’t want to come to some of our main streets because they’re fearful that if they’re in line a little [...]
Dear residents, I believe that improving and expanding our public transit system and fighting traffic gridlock must be top priorities for City Council. Every day, drivers find themselves waiting in traffic, cyclists try to navigate our busy streets and subway riders find themselves packed like sardines if they are even able to fit onto [...]
February 2, 2013 Ottawa Citizen Peggy Curran TORONTO — As Montreal and Laval struggle to reimagine what city politics should be like in the shadow of corruption hearings and the resignations of Gérald Tremblay and Gilles Vaillancourt, folks down the 401 have been experiencing their own political catharsis. In Toronto last week, [...]
February 1, 2013 Inside Toronto Mike Adler Toronto councillors have revived the debate on giving non-citizens the vote in local elections, saying permanent residents who pay for city services deserve a say in city politics. “We are a city of immigrants, and it’s not enough just to have it as a motto. We have to [...]
February 1, 2013 InsideToronto Justin Skinner With a long-standing mural in their community defaced by tagging, residents in the self-titled Republic of Rathnelly are looking for new solutions to beautify the site. The mural, on a railway overpass on McPherson Street near Dupont St. and Avenue Rd., was tagged by vandals last [...]
January 31, 2013 PostCity Bree-Rody Mantha Though Toronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) bus garage at 24 Eglinton Ave. W. is no longer operating and was set to be declared surplus in late 2012, the decision was deferred by TTC chair and Toronto city councillor Karen Stintz — and it may continue to be deferred [...]
January 30, 2013 Global News James Armstrong TORONTO – The historic Postal Station K will be preserved – at least in part – even as a condominium is erected behind it. Postal Station K, located just north of Eglinton Avenue on Yonge Street, was sold by Canada Post to the Rockport Group – [...]
Dear residents, Mayor Rob Ford has won his appeal and will keep his seat on Council. I very much appreciate your feedback on the question of how you believe Council should proceed in the event that the mayor is removed from office. Obviously, this is not a question that needs to be answered [...]
