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Conference Visitors Enjoy City If They Can Get Here, Province Looks At Relationship With Cities, Pitfield Complains About Shelters

By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

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Tourism Toronto is ecstatic at the success of the AIDS conference. The 25,000 delegates will be injecting forty million dollars into the local economy. Organizers have also noticed that most delegates have given the city very positive reviews. Sadly, many more couldn’t attend the conference because of visa problems.
A company that runs duty free stores is going to ask for compensation for sales lost because of strict security.
The McGuinty government is going to reform the way it shares costs with cities but not until the next election. Areas that they’ll be focusing on include housing, social services and health. Critics complain that the McGuinty government is dragging its feet to the detriment of cash-strapped cities.
Toronto area parents are worried that a cash-strapped school board might be eyeing ESL courses for cuts.
Jane Pitfield complains that some areas of the city have too many shelters in them. She toured parts of Ward 27 which include Seaton House, one of the city’s larger shelters, and one apparently that breaks the 80-bed maximum per shelter.
The Sun also runs this helpful story about two groups of men that got into a drunken fight that nearly killed one of them. Police are looking for five men. It’s a statement that inspires confidence in the abilities of our police force.
Photo by AVP17 from the Torontoist + Flickr Group.

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  • http://thomaspurves.com Thomas Purves

    By “many” denied visas, you mean all 5 of them?
    feels like the CBC trying to manufacture controversy.

  • http://paigesix.blogspot.com Paige

    I think the headline is a bit misleading…Pitfield just toured the shelters and promised to follow-up on the complaints of “Eva Curlanis-Bart, president of the Garden District Residents Association”.

  • JC

    I don’t understand why the police have to assume any level of blame in the story about the Queen Street West brawl. This is one of the busiest streets in the city. I’m sure there were lots of citizens who were on the street, not involved in the fight, and potentially could have called the police to break this up.
    People are not getting involved and are allowing things to just slip by. I was in Pape subway station Friday evening and noticed a group of people just lingering around the top of the westbound stairs. I tried to see what was going on and it looked like a fight gone bad or perhaps someone who was in need of medical assistance. Nobody was doing anything so I just spoke to the ticket taker upstairs to alert him to this.
    Yes, it’s easy to walk by and it’s easy to not want to intervene but there’s always a reason to act.

  • Dave

    And I was beginning to think it was just me.