BIAs around the world got their start in Toronto 40 years ago By Mike Comstock – Small merchants struggle to continue with specialty shops on the street, battling aggressive parking police, while thin-walled corporate warehouse buildings with acres of un-assessed parking ...
Read More »Tricky move captures additional tax money for police
By John Sewell – When the city’s budget committee threatened to limit the budget increase to the Toronto police service to $33 million while the police wanted an extra $37 million, the Police Service Board responded with a counter-intuitive strategy that ...
Read More »Dozy or doctrinaire pols, bureaucrats let unions hurt us
I really hate to have to tell this story, because although I’ve never been a union member, I have in my lifetime worked for a few rotten, abusive employers (including for a time the late unlamented Frank Roberts, founder of ...
Read More »for whom should the roads toll?
By Frank Touby – It’s sad that Mayor David Miller has not only imploded as a politician, but also had his hopes dashed of leaving that legacy he (and we) sacrificed so much to create. The province has said it’s ...
Read More »Will you lookie for a hydro bookie?
By Frank Touby – Are you looking for a bookie to take your bet on electricity prices? It turns out the new smart hydro meters won’t necessarily save you money and might well cost you more.Dalton McGuinty apparently wants you ...
Read More »Viewpoint: A tunnel is a bridge
By Frank Touby – When, in plain English, is a 7-storey-deep tunnel not a “bridge”? When the Toronto Port Authority (TPA) wants to evade the legal constraint that it builds no bridge or “similar fixed link” between the Island airport ...
Read More »Paulette Touby: The prayer that is Ireland Park
Toronto becomes a bit of land on the edge of the sea to where the Irish fled By Paulette Touby – A young vulnerable girl has pockets and in one pocket someone, moved to relieve her discomfort, has dropped Canadian ...
Read More »Paulette Touby: The prayer that is Ireland Park
Toronto becomes a bit of land on the edge of the sea to where the Irish fled By Paulette Touby – It was with its usual swirl of pomp and self congratulation that the city made a flowery announcement this ...
Read More »The Absurdities of Water Fluoridation (Toronto does it)
Water fluoridation is a peculiarly American phenomenon. It started at a time when Asbestos lined our pipes, lead was added to gasoline, PCBs filled our transformers and DDT was deemed so “safe and effective” that officials felt no qualms spraying ...
Read More »Viewpoint: Publicity hound calls it wrong
Limo-service operator/self-promoter and now mayoral candidate predicts Miller will resign in 20 minutes By Frank Touby – Self-promoter J. P. Pampena’s lust to get his name in the media spurred a desperate attempt March 10 to second guess Mayor David ...
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