Recent compromises at City Hall have lead to speculation about the possible return of Transit City. On Newstalk 1010’s The City this weekend, host and councillor Josh Matlow asked if the plan could be brought back from the dead. […]
Some city councillors wanted to study the idea of putting tolls on the Don Valley Parkway and the Gardiner Expressway but it hit a roadblock on Tuesday.Councillors voted Tuesday afternoon against a motion for a feasibility study on implementing road tolls on the DVP and the Gardiner. Council voted 19-26 against that motion. […]
So, $27.6-million down. About $472-million to $746-million to go (depending on what shortfall figures you believe). City council signed off on several budgetary cuts on the long and winding road to balancing its books by January. The list was first scaled back by the Mayor’s executive, and then whittled down further on Tuesday. The National [...]
TORONTO – Toronto councillors grilled Mayor Rob Ford Monday morning as they kicked off a special city council to deal with service cuts. The grilling came ahead of what’s expected to be a tough debate over cuts approved last week by the executive committee. […]
Councillor Josh Matlow gives Rob Ford a playful jab at City Hall last May. But in light of Ford’s controversial budget-cut proposals, Matlow and his fellow centrist councillors are starting to put up a real fight. In his first year as mayor, Rob Ford has attempted to dictate policy without debate or discussion. But [...]
The City’s Community Development and Recreation Committee wrapped up its Wednesday meeting with a strong show of opposition toward the KPMG Core Service Review and the saving options recommended by the City Manager. […]
Councillor Doug Ford, the brother and closest adviser of Mayor Rob Ford, said he would appear on colleague Josh Matlow’s radio show only if Matlow voted in favour of the Fords’ controversial Port Lands plan at council, Matlow told listeners Sunday. Doug Ford then called in to Matlow’s afternoon Newstalk 1010 show, The City, [...]
Toronto should look at road tolls on the Gardiner and Don Valley Parkway before hitting the gas on $100 million in cuts, Councillor Josh Matlow says. City manager Joe Pennachetti sent a laundry list of cuts to Mayor Rob Ford and the rest of the executive committee on Monday. The cuts range from eliminating [...]
A former Toronto mayor and the man who headed a royal commission in the 80s on the city’s waterfront is calling for a public consultation before any changes are made along the lake.On Newstalk 1010’s The City, David Crombie told Josh Matlow considering changes are fine, but the work that has gone into plans for [...]
Councillor Josh Matlow wants the City of Toronto to dig into the Melancthon Mega Quarry fight. Matlow will ask councillors on the executive committee next week to demand an environmental assessment of what would be the second-biggest rock quarry in North America before it is built in the Township of Melancthon, north of Toronto, [...]
