After months of controversy on the animal’s well-being, Toronto city council voted Tuesday night to send the Toronto Zoo’s three elephants to a California sanctuary. “Its a proper and humane retirement plan for our elephants,” Coun. Josh Matlow tweeted after the vote passed. […]
Toronto Zoo’s three elephants are moving to the PAWS sanctuary, politicians at City Hall decided Tuesday night. By a vote of 31-4, City Council decided to send Iringa, Toka and Thika to the PAWS sanctuary in California, the very place that the Zoo Board of Management did its best to rule out last May. The [...]
Toronto City Councillor Josh Matlow stands at the corner of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue by Peter Kuitenbrouwer A consortium of developers has a plan to build two condo towers, one of them 60-storeys high, at the corner of Yonge Street and Eglinton Avenue, and at first glance it appears North Toronto is girding for [...]
Chaplin Estates resident and realtor Donna Koegl has enjoyed walking on the beautiful Beltline Trail for nine years But in the past few years, she’s noticed — as I have — that it has started to deteriorate. Earlier this summer, she decided to form the Friends of the Beltline group and to organize [...]
TORONTO – Councillor Josh Matlow’s bid to crack down on rush hour lane blockers hit a speed bump Wednesday. The government management committee voted to send a modified version of Matlow’s anti-gridlock proposal to staff for further study. […]
They are politicians by day and they keep the roads safe at night. Political power couple Michelle and Lorenzo Berardinetti helped to pull a drunk driver off the road on Saturday night. […]
It’s rush hour and a car pulls over, parks, puts on the hazard lights, and the driver gets out. Anyone who drives in Toronto has seen this scenario many times. City councilor Josh Matlow calls these drivers “selfish yahoos” and says they need to be hit in the pocketbook. […]
Councillor Josh Matlow wondered aloud this weekend if Transit City might be resurrected, citing Mayor Rob Ford’s recent defeats at city council as reason for his newfound hope. While nothing has been decided yet—nor would anything be any time soon, if at all—we can’t help but be a little excited. TTC chair Karen Stintz didn’t [...]
Posted by John Michael McGrath on Monday, October 3, 2011 It looks like some councillors are feeling their oats after a few recent wins and near-wins lately. Josh Matlow (Ward 22, St. Paul’s) apparently said on his radio show yesterday that Transit City could be revived by council. David Miller’s Transit Plan had been [...]
His enemies roused, his brother a liability, Canada’s toughest mayor comes undone by Nicholas Köhler on Monday, October 3, 2011 The Saturday after the worst week in Rob Ford’s political life, the mayor of Toronto and his councillor brother Doug attended the inaugural game of Toronto’s new women’s lingerie football team, the Toronto Triumph, [...]
