Opinion

Magazine dubs dysfunctional city a hero of the sustainability sweepstakes By Frank Touby — The city that can’t keep its streets and parks clean, its century-old water pipes from bursting, its transit moving people efficiently…and all the other failings the ...

The fate of Marc Emery, known worldwide as the Prince of Pot, is in the hands of Canada’s Justice Minister Rob Nicholson. The Justice Minister will decide to approve or refuse the extradition of Emery to the United States at ...

By John Sewell –  Imagine yourself as police chief Bill Blair. It’s New Year’s evening, you’ve gone to bed a few minutes past midnight and then are roused awake by a nightmare. What’s it about? Surely the G20 meeting in Toronto ...

By Michael Comstock –  2010 brings in a new year that will be special and memorable for people living in the city. It will be a year of real change for 40,000 to 45,000 people moving into newly completed Downtown condo ...

By Ken Smith –  Old Town Toronto denizens have seen motorized wheel chairs topple over in winter around the southwest corner of Church and The Esplanade, a spot notorious for the lack of a sidewalk. That is changing thanks to city ...

There are no good guys in this dispute over whether cable should pay for broadcast content. Actually, there are no good guys in the whole arena of businesses nominally “regulated” by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Too many of ...

It’s so tempting to punish the Ontario Liberals for foisting Dalton McGuinty on us. With a byelection in the works to replace MPP George Smitherman, who is resigning his seat to run for city mayor, we should have a chance ...

How about another pack of Highway 407 giveaways? That’s what neocon make-believe liberal Dalton McGuinty is offering you to make himself look less like the loser he is. He’s having you join him in that column by asking the lowest ...

The tar baby of streetcars has again stuck the city for millions of dollars. This time, to of all places, the Toronto Port Authority. Our ideologue mayor, David Miller, is spending us poor to enrich big business and clog our ...

It won’t be much of a show down, at the end of the day. The city budget chief, Shelley Carroll, needs $500 million in cuts to balance the city’s budget next year, and she has asked all city departments and ...