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Mayor Ford being investigated by city after putting magnets on cars
May 15, 2013
Probe comes after citizen complaint; a Toronto bylaw prohibits leaving handbills on vehicles globeandmail – Toronto
Advocacy group hands out fruit in front of City Hall to protest limits on Toronto food trucks
May 15, 2013
Piles of plump grapes, oranges and granny-smith apples spilled across a red-and-white checkered tablecloth outside City Hall Wednesday — a food stand effectively banned by municipal regulations. Local advocacy group Food Forward bypassed the rules by offering the fruits to passersby for free instead of selling them, a demonstration aiming to highlight the absurdity of [...]
Electoral reform on city ‘radar’
May 14, 2013
Civic activist says council will now discuss staff report on using ranked-choice voting, allowing permanent residents to vote, holding elections on a Saturday or Sunday, and providing internet voting for people with disabilities globeandmail – Toronto
Posted Toronto Political Panel: City Council’s debate on transit revenue tools ended in thoroughgoing disgrace
May 13, 2013
In the aftermath of last week’s council vote on revenue tools for transit development, the Post’s shellshocked Chris Selley and Matt Gurney, and NOW’s stubbornly cheerful Jonathan Goldsbie, look at each other, blinking rapidly, and ask, “Wha—what just happened?” Selley: Betting on politicians to behave like cynical cowards is usually pretty safe. But I did [...]
Ford brothers decry plan for $1.2M bike station, with showers, at city hall, but council gives project the go-ahead
May 11, 2013
One day removed from a messy debate about transit taxes, Toronto city council was at it again Friday, this time fighting over the reflecting pool at Nathan Phillips Square and a bike station that Councillor Doug Ford predicted would “turn into nothing but a bathhouse.” Mayor Rob Ford has railed against spending $ 1.2-million to [...]
Entertainment City: May 10, 2013
May 10, 2013
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Toronto city council wades into pool debate
May 10, 2013
City council is continuing its May meeting Friday. Toronto & GTA stories
Transit taxes back on the table at Toronto city council
May 9, 2013
Toronto city councillors are wading back into the transit tax debate Thursday. Toronto & GTA stories
Scarborough councillors make another bid to transform RT into a subway as city considers ‘revenue tools’
May 9, 2013
A debate that was intended to focus on whether taxes and tolls should be implemented to pay for transit projects was dominated on Wednesday by talk of revising a plan that took years of bickering to establish. A bid by Scarborough city councillors to transform the dilapidated RT into a subway raised the prospect of [...]