If you are affected by noise of planes using the Toronto Island Airport, (Toronto City Centre Airport), CommunityAIR draws your attention to part of the contract governing the airport. It foresaw many more people using the waterfront and built in ...
Read More »Viewpoint: Preview our new, muchdreaded ‘street furniture’
By Maggie O’Connor – In May I visited the Astral Media showcase of the city’s new street furniture program on behalf of Cabbagetown2.0, the Old Caggabgetown Business Improvement Area’s public space committee. Overall, it inspired in me a long list ...
Read More »Sewell: Did Pam let cop board kill useful womens counsel?
By John Sewell – Most public figures steer clear of policies to reduce levels of sexual assault against women since it is so tangled and immediately runs into the need to change the way the police force works. But, to ...
Read More »Comstock: Tax Big Box ‘acres of free parking’
Big Boxes do most of the retail trade, pay little in taxes By Mike Comstock – I would like to thank the many folks who have told me they enjoyed and now miss, the Food and History Shows that Bruce ...
Read More »And now, floating atop Ottawa’s gutter…
By Frank Touby – It’s axiomatic that silt floats to the top of the gutter. It’s lighter than water, mainly constituted just of air; the remainder of its composition is somewhat unknown, though its primary constituent is crap. Silt is ...
Read More »P3s mean Public Pays Plenty
Yet again the spectre of corruption looms large at city hall. There is a push to get private businesses (read “huge, well-connected insiders”) involved in the public sphere through the disreputable path of P3s (public-private partnerships). By their very nature, ...
Read More »OWN co-op faces human rights complaint over tile flooring
By By Jim Dalziel – OWN Housing Co-op beside the St. Lawrence Market will face a human rights complaint over new flooring plans, says the mother of a woman who often falls during epileptic seizures. (OWN Co-op is not to ...
Read More »Harris Institute names new registrar
Kathleen Farley, Harris Institute top Honours Graduate of the Producing/Engineering Program in 1998 with 92.89%, has been appointed Registrar. She was most recently the Executive Director of the Toronto Vegetarian Association and oversaw the growth of North America’s largest vegetarian festival. Lance ...
Read More »Viewpoint: Farce that Launched a Thousand Suicide Bombers
An Israeli resident mulls the ‘collateral damage’ in the death of a Palestinian boy By Michelle Moshelian – His dying image was spread across front pages of newspapers and television screens worldwide, making Mohammed al-Dura the poster boy for Israeli ...
Read More »And you thought blue bins were imbecilic
“You can get so much information you can’t tell anything” By Frank Touby – The city’s new lobbyist registry got me wondering how they did things in my friend Slovo’s former part of the world. As usual, I got to ...
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