By Stig Harvor – The frantic pace of sales of new condos is finally slowing down. September sales were down 34% over September a year ago. Is it because of an oversupply of units? After all, the Toronto skyline today ...
Read More »No joiner, he has an independent’s view of Wynne
She called me out of the blue in 1994 or 1995 and said, very timidly, that she would like to do some kind of community organizing about Toronto issues. We met, I found her shy, and we worked together to ...
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Students, gotta love ‘em! For two years there have been many visitors and dogs at Sherbourne Common together with the entire group of working people in the Corus building. In the hot summer of 2011 dogs and small children were ...
Read More »Support for striking Porter fuel handlers at Island airport
Bill Freeman – At 3:00 on Sunday afternoon (February 10, 2013) a group of 200 or more community residents and union activists meet at the corner of Bathurst and Queen’s Quay to support the Porter fuel handlers who are out ...
Read More »If Rob Ford is truly a conservative he will de-amalgamate us
Fellow voters, we have been bamboozled. He had such a glorious start to his mayoralty career that seeing the guy step on his own (thing) day after day was a shock that quickly became run-of-business: How’s Rob Ford going to ...
Read More »Help students by tackling student debt says Grit leadership contender
To realize our goal of a prosperous Canada, we must build a knowledge-based economy. To do that, we must have the most educated, most creative, and most entrepreneurial workforce in the world. And that starts with our youth, with education ...
Read More »An art display versus parks & trails in Downtown TO?
At stake is the fate of the historic and still-operative Walks and Gardens Trust which was initiated in 1818. To bring that long history to its immediate present: We’ve been sold out. Or, if you prefer, perhaps hundreds of millions ...
Read More »Let big business exploit the public sector
‘The merger of state and corporate power is by definition called fascism,’ Gerald Celente, U.S.-based trends analyst and forecaster. Meanwhile two big-business groups present their ideas for getting at your tax money. By Frank Touby – Self-interested private businesses can ...
Read More »Convenience stores battle untaxed smokes
Milk stores are arranging for customers to complain to provincial ministers from the stores The Ontario Convenience Stores Association (OCSA) is launching a contraband tobacco awareness campaign in Toronto convenience stores. The campaign will allow customers to send a letter ...
Read More »Porter violates airport deal even without jets
The current Q400, flown by Porter and Air Canada, offends the Tripartite Agreement’s definition of aircraft generating excessive noise on two of the three parameters and breach of any one prohibits the aircraft By Brian Iler – The Toronto Port ...
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