Opinion

By Vanessa Magness – Why get involved in community policing? Let’s see. It’s a venue for information exchange between my neighbours and the police. A chance for a good bitch session. It’s an opportunity to publicize policing strategies to the ...

By Mike Comstock – All Toronto media completely missed a big story of the Dec. 12 provincial legislature’s meeting. The most amazing thing that morning was the opposition gallery and many other seats packed with 60-70 members of neighbourhood business ...

As Mayor Miller contemplates the heady new powers of the City of Toronto Act, his first pronouncement was, why not punish Downtown neighbourhoods with a new tax on parking? Taxing only Downtown’s already high-priced parking is harmful to the economic ...

With our recycled more powerful mayor and genuine new decision-making powers for council, we have every reason to expect city hall to turn around this new year. There are a number of things that haven’t been addressed by council in ...

Prevent Cancer Now (PCN), a national, non-profit coalition of health, environment, labour and other organizations today expressed disappointment with the federal government’s chemical management announcement.  Citing the government’s Chemicals Management Plan website, the group said the so-called plan is a ...

By Braz Menezes & Ulla Colgrass of the YQNA executive – York Quay Neighbourhood Association wrote to Toronto Star columnist Glen Murray with comments and questions about the Gardiner Expressway, which was his topic on Dec. 3, 2006. It’s always ...

Question is who’s responsible for fixing the crumbling seawall. Is it city taxpayers or will the Toronto Port Authority end up with the bill? By Frank Touby – A 50-foot wide portion of the seawall at the Western Gap promenade ...

Our convention correspondent uncovers under-cover hanky panky, boozing and toking, but no discussions about accountability or (pardon her English) “corruption” By Lesley Myers – I attended this weekend’s convention as a delegate for Stéphane Dion, and a reporter for The ...

The NDP was founded in 1961. The party has had six leaders: T. C. Douglas (1961-71), David Lewis (1971-75), Ed Broadbent (1975-89), Audrey McLaughlin (1989-95), Alexa McDonough (1995-2003) and Jack Layton (2003-present). The federal NDP has averaged 15.4% of the ...

By Frank Touby – No matter who gets elected, it’s the civil service who actually are the government. At the most intrusive array of their powers and tasks, they’re the ones who’ll chase you for taxes, stuff you in prison, ...