A special remembrance: Mike Comstock
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Mike Comstock was my friend and he is sorely missed. (He died Sept. 22, 2012) You can see his columns in The Bulletin in another section of this website.He was a practical guy, full of workable ideas. Mike was a fountainhead of practical solutions to practical problems.Mike gave generously of his ti...
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Celebrate Michael Comstock's life Nov. 10
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Downtown mourns the death but celebrates the life of Michael Comstock who for decades has been a positive influence and fount of ideas for civic improvement.Michael's Celebration of Life will take place Saturday November 10th from 3-5pm at the HotHouse Café at the corner of Church Street and Front S...
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MIKE COMSTOCK: In Memorium
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Mike Everywhere ComstockMorning early grey October days5:00 a.m. up Scott across BercszyThrough the park at St. JamesAnd back down following theRed parade profuse in mid-airMike's bouquets, hisAntidote to urban blight in thisCorner of the universe he lovedBeauty becomes us, he saysBeautyBecomesUs'MI...
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Michael Comstock dies in Toronto
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Michael Comstock, a friend and columnist in The Bulletin passed away in his home Sept. 22, 2012 after a brief struggle with pancreatic cancer. He will be missed by his beloved wife Sharon, their two sons, and the entire Downtown community he served so generously.Mike was in the company of his sist...
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Comstock: Keep big-box development off waterfront
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Tourism to Toronto is lacklustre and has been for the past decade. Yet the usual suspects continue to run the business in the same boring manner, blowing $25-$30 million a year without a useful slogan or cute T-shirt like, I Heart Toronto. It’s a wonderful city full of diverse neighbourhoods, art an...
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Comstock: Condo shock can be averted
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Condo residents across the city need to be aware of the many problems their buildings can get into if they’re not built by a well-regarded developer. Owners pay condo fees every month, to cover the cost of operations and maintenance. This condo fee must cover everything from the concierge and clean...
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Comstock: Sleeping on streets should be intolerable
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Criticism of last month’s column assumed I didn’t care about the people sleeping on Enwave’s waste heat grates. Let me be clear, leaving people to sleep on the sidewalk is an abomination. The practice harms the community and the individual and accepts a status quo in which no alternatives are even l...
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Michael Comstock: Strike proves overstaffed city should trim down
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The Bulletin is Toronto’s only Downtown community paper and it seems to thrive against a generally stagnated number of daily newspaper readers. Torontonians can get their news from a variety of media which is one reason daily newspaper readership isn’t growing. Another reason is that all these chann...
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Michael Comstock: Big apple tops TO in consideration of the public’s needs
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Muddy York was once Toronto’s nickname. Sidewalks of wood and coal cinders fell apart every spring as the icy ground heaved and softened. Muddy York was the first urban reference about Toronto. Fittingly, this was a pedestrian appellation. The pendulum of city governance is now crushing the car and ...
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Comstock: Council promotes staff interests over those of residents
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Biodiversity is a word from the science of ecology which has become an axiom for a healthy world. It speaks to the range of organisms present in a particular ecological community.Healthy bio-diverse planets can be measured by the types of different species, or the genetic variations within them. The...
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Comstock: Small merchants sandbagged by TTC and city hall
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For Earth Day I looked at our big-city problems through a green lens. I do believe that green considerations make it easier to be in the middle of the road. It seems more dignified to be in the middle. The left and right, the doves and hawks, the pro and con groups keep feeding the media with poorly...
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