June 12, 2013 Jim Kenzie Toronto Star Toronto City Council voted recently to spend upwards of eleven million dollars on traffic light synchronization in the city. Wait a minute… When I went to university – yes, there were cars then – we (‘we’ because we carpooled, dontcha know…) knew instantly when [...]
May 31, 2013 Now Toronto Ben Spurr A small but growing group of councillors is asking Mayor Rob Ford to take a leave of absence until the drug allegations shrouding his administration are resolved. For the past two weeks, the routine workings of City Hall have been dominated by reports of a [...]
May 30, 2013 The Globe and Mail Sunny Dhillon and Elizabeth Church Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, the embattled leader who has now seen five of his employees depart since he was accused of using crack cocaine, has vowed to remain at Toronto City Hall, guaranteeing his name will be on next year’s election [...]
May 24, 2013 City Centre Mirror Justin Skinner As controversy continues to swirl around Mayor Rob Ford, St. Paul’s councillor Josh Matlow has added his voice to the growing number of councillors calling for the mayor to speak out about allegations he was captured on video smoking crack cocaine. “The mayor has [...]
May 20, 2013 Reuters Julie Gordon The mayor of Canada’s largest city, facing allegations that he smoked crack cocaine, and made racial and homophobic slurs on video, must either refute the accusations or step down, fellow city politicians say. “If the allegations are false, then the mayor is owed some apologies,” said [...]
May 15 2013 Town Crier Eric Emin Wood As Maurice Cody Junior Public School’s principal Andrew Howard diplomatically puts it, the Bayview and Davisville-area school’s dirt field restricts childrens’ play. “In wet weather it’s a mud pit, and in drier weather it’s a dust bowl,” he says. “There have been a number of [...]
May 15 2013 City Centre Mirror Justin Skinner Tempers are flaring in the Moore Park community over plans to replace the existing crematoria in Mount Pleasant Cemetery. The Mount Pleasant Group of Cemeteries put an application in with the Ministry of the Environment to replace their old crematoria equipment with new equipment [...]
April 15 2013 Town Crier Eric Emin Wood Imagine being the owner of 40 Hillsdale Ave. E., a two-level red-brick townhome near Yonge and Eglinton. Every morning you watch the sun rise above a house-lined street dotted with trees and every evening watch it set behind your neighbour, fine furniture retailer The Art [...]
April 5 2013 Metro News Matt Elliott For me, the best moment of Toronto City Council’s meeting this week came from Coun. Josh Matlow. The Ward 22 rep, who has sometimes found himself the subject of jokes because of his commitment to earnest even-handedness, stood up late in the day on Wednesday in the [...]
April 2013 Post City Magazines Bree Rody-Mantha Robertson Davies Park, located on Avenue Road north of Dupont Street, is surrounded by single-family homes and old, towering trees. It may soon have a new neighbour: a nine-storey condo at 289 Avenue Rd., which has some residents apprehensive. Pam MacDonald, president of the Rathnelly Area [...]
