April 24, 2006
Kidnapping Happy Ending, Parkdale Beach Issues, What To Do With the Scarborough RT?
A TTC janitor might just be subject of one ot those TTC employee ads after spotting a four-year old boy that was snatched and Amber-Alerted. A 34-year old woman was also arrested.
The Post reports on what happened to the Redpath Sugar sign on the waterfront.
Bob Rae and Carolyn Bennett are both now officially in the Liberal Leadership race.
A car ran into a streetcar on Queen and River injuring three people.
Spacing Wire reports on how a part of Parkdale's beach is going to be privatized. Local councillor Sylvia Watson has given the green light to the development which will include turning a park into a parking lot, and closing off a part of beach to the public.
One of the four soldiers killed in Afghanistan over the weekend was a Toronto area resident.
The Star considers what needs to be done with the RT. There are three options: get bigger RT cars, convert it into a light rail/streetcar line, build another subway line.
In other transit news, the Ministry of Transportation will be unveiling legislation to streamline the GTA's transit systems. One of the things they're looking at is a universal fare card.
The Vital Signs report done by the Toronto Community Foundation is going national. Other cities across Canada will be taking up the popular report cards.
Image from Spacing Wire
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Thanks for bringing my attention to this.
Please all take the moment to write to Counciller Watson.
Thank you Torontoist!
Without you, I'd have never found out the answer to the case of the missing Redpath sign.
That's one less thing I have to wonder about every so often.
Cheers.
I am pretty upset about this Redpath sign thing too... it was one of the prettier art-deco signs in the city and now it's GONE!!?
How are kids suppose to imagine sliding down the tunnels without the requisite "sugar" informing them of just how incredible the whole thing could be!!?
Email Mayor David Miller mayor_miller@toronto.ca and say you won't stand for him giving away a beach used by the poor and giving it to expensive private clubs!
Hands Off Our Beach !! Press Release
For Immediate Release ........... Sunday, April 30, 2006
The Parkdale Tenants Association presents:
HANDS OFF OUR BEACH !!
Picnic & Rally
When: Tuesday, May 2, 2006 at Noon
Where:Dowling Beach, between the Boulevard Club and the Toronto Sail and Canoe Club
(at the foot of Dowling Ave. and Lakeshore Blvd.)
Two of Toronto's ritziest private clubs want to fence off a big chunk of Parkdale's
Dowling Beach for the exclusive use of its members with the support of Mayor David Miller.
The Parkdale Tenants Association (PTA) is allying the community to block the Toronto Sailing and Canoe Club and the Boulevard Club from taking away Parkdale's only public beach from Parkdale's low income tenants.
Even though the Boulevard Club now has withdrawn its request to expand into Dowling Beach "at this time", the PTA will continue to hold its community picnic and rally on May 2 at noon.
This is to send a message to the City that the Beach belongs to everyone.
A press conference will be held on the beach at 12:15 PM
Free Food & Music.
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For more info: Bart Poesiat (416) 531-2411, ext. 250
email: poesiatb@lao.on.ca
Bart Poesiat
Community Legal Worker
Parkdale Community Legal Services
www.parkdalelegal.org