by Don Peat Start hoarding your tokens, again. Just 13 months after a massive 25-cent fare hike took effect, the TTC is proposing to hit Torontonians with a 10-cent hike starting Feb. 1, despite Mayor Rob Ford and TTC chairman Karen Stintz vowing to derail it. Ford lamented the hike — estimated to raise $24 [...]
by Marcus Gee These are nervous times in the city. When it emerged that the Toronto Public Library was proposing to close its urban affairs branch, many saw it as the first concrete proof of a plot by Mayor Rob Ford to slash and burn his way across the city. This, after all, was a [...]
By Kris Scheuer Ulli Rath wants the TTC to give up a portion of its Davisville yard to expand Oriole Park. The local resident and his group, Friends of Oriole Park, are putting out the feelers to see if an expansion is possible. He says it’s a natural choice, given that the Davisville TTC yards [...]
By Kris Scheuer Another stop on the gravy train has been eliminated: Mayor Rob Ford and council voted to cut office budgets. The Dec. 16 vote was 40-5 in favour of reducing councillors’ expense accounts from $50,445 to $30,000. But what does this mean for your local councillor? Newbie St. Paul’s Councillor Josh Matlow voted [...]
City Councillor Josh Matlow, photographed on Dec. 11, 2010, is a former innovative school trustee and now a newly minted councillor who is big in the environmental community and a maverick when it comes to policy. - RICHARD LAUTENS/TORONTO STAR by Louise Brown Of course Josh Matlow is one to watch in 2011 — try [...]
by Richard Gilbert There’s little doubt Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is on a roll. As he said, he got everything he wanted at city council’s first regular meeting of this term on Dec. 16. The council voted 39-6, 40-5, and 28-17 to support three items of his election platform: repealing the personal vehicle tax, reducing [...]
{loadposition socialwidget} By DANIEL DALE, Toronto Star A week after Rob Ford finally won his long, lonely battle to eliminate free food for councillors, he arrived at his first lengthy council meeting bearing a surprise gift: free food for councillors. The taxpayer-funded edible gravy train may be kaput. On Thursday, it was unexpectedly replaced by [...]
By NATALIE ALCOBA, National Post Published on Tuesday November 9, 2010 It was like the first day of school for the crop of rookie Toronto councillors who were at City Hall checking out their new digs today. They got a tour, and they posed for photos. They were handed big three ring binders that read [...]
By DAVID NICKLE, InsideToronto Published on Tuesday November 9, 2010 It was the “first day of school” Tuesday for some of the 14 newly-elected city councillors getting ready to take office in December. Toronto City Hall opened its doors to the new councillors, who will soon join 30 incumbent councillors and Mayor Rob Ford in [...]
By JONATHAN JENKINS, Toronto Sun Published On Tuesday November 9, 2010 At least they know where the washrooms are now. A parade of earnest new council faces, fresh from an orientation session complete with protocol binders and a tour of the building, held court at City Hall Tuesday and vowed to work together. But despite [...]
