February 22 2012 Toronto Star Rachel Mendleson Toronto is developing a plan to better synchronize traffic lights on some “priority corridors” over the next five years, a much-anticipated effort to ease gridlock and cut down on emissions. Yet in a city where commute times are among the lengthiest in North America, some [...]
February 20, 2013 Toronto Star Jack Lakey Finally, someone on city council is ready to get serious about making sure drivers benefit from the 10-minute grace period for overtime parking. Councillors Josh Matlow and Michael Thompson say they will bring a motion to city council this week, asking that tickets not be [...]
February 13 2013 Global News David Shum Toronto’s black community leaders say apathy and cynicism needs to end if the city is serious about curbing youth and gun violence.“The killings from January to now among the young people, over 90 per cent of them are African Canadians, and nobody says it’s a crisis,” [...]
February 12 2013 Toronto Star Peter Moloney Facing a blizzard of complaints about Toronto’s storm cleanup, the public works chair is launching a review that will, among other things, consider whether the city should have declared its first “snow emergency” since 1999. “In retrospect we may have wanted to do that,” Councillor [...]
February 1 2013 The Montreal Gazette Peggy Curran Getting elected in Toronto is about cheques, balances and maybe a few loopholes. Without the benefit of a party machine, candidates for city hall rely on the kindness and cash of friends, family and citizens who care enough about the political process to reach [...]
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 – [...]
