January 2012   Height and shadowing concerns loom large south of St. Clair   A 13-storey building proposed at the old CHUM building on Yonge Street, a few blocks south of St. Clair Avenue, is facing strong opposition from locals. The application provides for 214 residential units, four ground floor retail units and 184 parking [...]

February 8, 2012   A fierce battle for Toronto’s transit direction reached a dramatic climax on Wednesday, with city council endorsing a light rail vision championed by the TTC chairwoman — and a defeated Mayor Rob Ford dismissing the vote as irrelevant.   By a margin of 25 to 18, council rejected the Mayor’s tunnel-only [...]

February 8, 2012   Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has called his council’s tumultuous debate on the future of the city’s transit “irrelevant” after it dealt him a major defeat on Wednesday, voting down his vision to put new light-rail lines underground.   “Technically speaking, that whole meeting was irrelevant,” Ford told reporters Wednesday, shortly after [...]

February 8, 2012   Toronto Council’s debate on the future of Transit City got underway Wednesday morning as the special council meeting received thousands of petitions from across the city in favour of the light rail plan. The meeting, which was called by 24 councillors led by TTC Chair Karen Stintz, seeks to change the [...]

February 7, 2012   Motorists should be dinged $150 for parking on busy streets in rush hour, or blocking a bicycle lane any time, city council decided.   The city must now seek court approval before it can increase the fine from the current $60 for parking during rush hour — 6 a.m. to 10 [...]

February 7, 2012   Seeking to give residents more say about what gets built in their neighbourhoods, Toronto city council has asked the province to free the city from the Ontario Municipal Board’s jurisdiction.   Council endorsed the proposal in a 34-5 vote on Monday. The vote is expected to prompt talks with the province [...]

February 6, 2012   Newstalk 1010 has learned that TTC Chair Karen Stintz is leading a group of councillors who are looking for a change in transit. She will be tabling a petition at council Monday morning signed by 24 councillors to have a special meeting on the subject at city hall in the coming [...]

February 6, 2012   Two days after Mayor Rob Ford’s administration threatened to unilaterally impose a new contract on the city’s outside workers, both sides reached a tentative four-year agreement that union leaders said entails “numerous concessions” on their part.   The result appeared to be a vindication of the city’s hard-ball strategy, which administration [...]

January 30, 2012   Mayor Rob Ford says he has the authority to unilaterally kill Transit City. His opponents on council and now an independently commissioned municipal lawyer say he was out of bounds.   “Nowhere was it written that the mayor has authority to unilaterally create transit policy for the City of Toronto,” says [...]