January 7th 2014 Mika Rekai Midtown Post With the beginning of a new year comes new year’s resolutions, and Ward 22 councillor Josh Matlow will be tabling his at Toronto and East York Community Council this January. After council resumes following the winter break, Matlow will be submitting a design study for Forest [...]
January 7th 2014 Justin Skinner Inside Toronto As development pressure mounts in St. Paul’s, Ward 22 councillor Josh Matlow is looking to ensure 2014 brings about renewed infrastructure and more green space. The councillor pointed out the area all around Yonge and Eglinton is at a crossroads with the Eglinton Crosstown LRT and [...]
January 6th 2014 Steve Kupferman Toronto Life Could any law that prevents Sharon, Lois and Bram from getting their due possibly be a good law? Incredibly enough, this is a question city councillors recently had to answer. The crux of the issue was a playground in June Rowlands Park, near the intersection of [...]
January 2, 2014 Don Peat Toronto Sun TORONTO – What have city politicians and bureaucrats learned in the wake of the ice storm that left thousands in the dark and freezing for days? The Toronto Sun asked some key players tasked with responding to the Dec. 21-22 storm what lessons they learned from the [...]
December 28th 2013 Christine Chubb 680 News As thousands remain without power one week after the ice storm that hit southern Ontario, one city councilor is calling for a special meeting to discuss response improvements. Josh Matlow took to Twitter on Saturday to [...]
December 12th 2013 Natalie Alcoba National Post A mid-town councillor wants to press “pause” on the Scarborough subway and take a 0.5% property tax hike earmarked for the project out of next year’s budget. Councillor Josh Matlow argued that city council had “imperfect” and “incomplete” information leading up to an October decision to [...]
December 12th 2013 Don Peat The Toronto Sun TORONTO – Just when you thought you’ve heard the last City Hall debate on “subways, subways, subways.” Councillor Josh Matlow said Wednesday he wants to hit the “pause button” on the property tax hike to fund the Scarborough subway. Months after he tried to stop [...]
December 11, 2013 Daniel Dale The Toronto Star The long-running, topsy-turvy debate over whether the Scarborough RT should be replaced by light rail or subway seemed to be settled for good, finally, when council voted 24-20 in October in favour of a subway plan. It’s back. Councillor Josh Matlow, a vocal proponent [...]
December 12th 2013 Eric Emin Wood Town Crier The once-attractive, now graffitti-tagged former rental apartment building sits forlorn on its lot at 467 Spadina Rd. Unused since 2006, its windows are boarded up. For months a development notice has been tacked onto its chipped front door. Local residents finally had a chance to [...]
December 3rd 2013 Patty Winsa Toronto Star A Toronto councillor wants to move forward on long-delayed programming for the city’s most at-risk youth and is asking for $500,000 to be included in the 2014 budget. “There seems to be no appetite for action until we lose another kid to violence,” said Josh Matlow, [...]
