April 18, 2012 Right in the heart of the Forest Hill Village, no curbs exist. The sidewalk has been levelled and resembles an old English town courtyard. During the day businesses have room for customers to park in bays outside their store, but by night, restaurants extend their patios. Traffic is minimal, cyclists zip [...]
April 18, 2012 School pools across Toronto will have at least five years of secure city funding if council approves a deal between the city and the Toronto District School Board (TDSB). The deal would see the TDSB lower the fees the city pays during non-school hours at 33 pools by $285,300 a year, [...]
April 18, 2012 A new tentative funding deal for school pools has been reached between the city and the Toronto District School Board. The five-year agreement ensures all 33 of the board’s city-funded pools will remain open until at least 2017. “Our city’s school pools are deeply valued by our communities,” says Josh Matlow, Toronto [...]
April 17, 2012 Toronto may one day be known as Sin City of the North if one of the world’s largest gambling companies and a notorious brothel get their way. According to reports, MGM Resorts International is interested in opening an entertainment complex, including a casino and hotel, in Toronto, while Nevada’s infamous [...]
April 17, 2012 Political powers see a Bunny Ranch in Toronto as more of a varmint than a fluffy revenue stream. Councillor Josh Matlow tweeted Tuesday he wouldn’t be supporting a proposal to build a brothel in the city, after the Toronto Sun ran a story about Nevada bordello king Dennis Hof looking [...]
April 10, 2012 Should Toronto roll the dice on a casino? Councillor Michael Thompson said Tuesday he wants to put the casino question to residents in a referendum as early as this October. “(The province) wants to deal with it now, so to wait two years from now, to continue to talk [...]
April 2, 2012 City council has endorsed a new four-year collective agreement with just over half of its inside workers that, officials say, will save the municipality about $50-million. The deal with full-time employees and some part-timers passed 40 to 1 on Monday. Part-time recreation workers must still ratify their agreement on [...]
April 2, 2012 Toronto’s municipal government is expecting to save $50-million in labour-related costs over four years after council ratified a new collective agreement with most of the city’s inside workers. Council approved the deal 40 to 1 Monday, with only left-leaning Councillor Paula Fletcher voting against the contract for two of CUPE [...]
March 29, 2012 Ward 22 councillor Josh Matlow says he is going to do everything he can to shut down the nightclub Mint, which has been operating illegally on Eglinton Avenue near Mount Pleasant Road. The St. Paul’s representative says he is fed up with the club, which is in an area zoned for bars [...]
March 28, 2012 Councillor Josh Colle (Ward 15, Eglinton—Lawrence) really, really doesn’t want to be associated with A La Cart, the city’s failed attempt to micromanage diversity in street food that was in most evaluations a total failure. In an interview this morning, he refused to even use the words “A La Cart”, preferring instead to [...]
