Opinion

Comstock: Keep big-box development off waterfront

By Michael Comstock – 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 ...

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TCHC stonewalls on stripped then abandoned space

Frank Touby  — Privacy law is often the last resort of scoundrels and bureaucrats—sometimes they’re one and the same. Thus we citizens who own the commercial property at 77 Lower Jarvis—we city “taxpayers,” as Rob Ford would describe us—are deprived ...

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Conservative justices reinforce Police-State America

Be grateful you’re in Canada—if you’re stuck in the States with an unpaid traffic ticket, get ready for a strip search By Carla Howell – The U.S. Libertarian Party denounces a U.S. Supreme Court decision, which on April 3, 2012 ...

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a spring tech refresher

So what really caused this year’s exceptionally early Spring? Was it global warming? El Nino? Or simply Mother Nature’s attempt to give the Gadget Zone an excuse to look at spring consumer tech early? We know what we believe! Here ...

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Lynn McDonald’s call for a Canadian Electoral Alliance

The political impasse in federal politics is obvious: a majority Conservative government that 60% (actually 60.4%) of Canadians voted against. It’s the Conservatives’ third victory with under 40% of the popular vote. They are cocky now, with control of the ...

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Making transit affordable for job seekers

Op-Ed for The Bulletin by Olivia Chow, 2012-01-26 Being in between jobs is tough. Most of us have been through the experience. Writing cover letters and resumes, going to networking events and interviews – maybe even attending seminars and training. ...

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Paul Godfrey would sell out Canadian media

Selfishly seeks to let foreigners own our Fourth Estate By Frank Touby – Paul Godfrey has his interests well covered, but they won’t likely help you. The former top bureaucrat of the former Metropolitan Toronto government (he was appointed, never ...

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CBC disses Woodsworth Co-op

Identifies the well-run, member-owned housing co-operative as part of the dysfunctional TCHC stable By Frank Touby – CBC’s local news crew and reporter Steven D’Souza got it seriously wrong in a story Dec. 13 about Toronto Community Housing Corp. (TCHC). ...

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The time for planning is now

By Ken Smith – The Time for Planning is Now New condo units, thousands of them, are transforming Old Town Toronto and more are planned. At the same time, some of Toronto’s most historically illustrious asphalt-pocked Old Town streets and ...

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Steve ‘Killer’ Harper gets meaner

Bill C-10 is a costly, cruel, unworkable anti-crime solution that has proven a failure in the U.S., makes streets meaner, not safer By Jamie Biggar – Bill C-10 would shift Canada to a cruel, costly and failed fill-the-prisons approach to ...

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