Historicist: "The city that nobody loves"
The Daily Photoist: November 23, 2009
Elsewhere in the Ist-a-Verse
Urban Planner: November 23, 2009
Won't ask for back-to-work legislation, Miller states (Globe and Mail): "Mayor David Miller has dealt a blow to the possibility of a legislated end to Toronto's [15]-day-old municipal workers' strike, leaving only two options for a city stuck without garbage collection, pools or city-run childcare: a quick, negotiated settlement or a long, smelly summer. 'We're not going to ask for back-to-work legislation,' the mayor told reporters Friday, the most explicit he's been to date on the subject." [More coverage in the National Post.]
Court orders spray at garbage site (Globe and Mail): "It was an unusual Sunday morning scene at a park, but just the latest twist in Toronto’s bitter civic workers’ strike when a police officer showed up at Christie Pits yesterday and read out from a court injunction to a handful of union pickets, ordering them not to impede passage of pest-control trucks."
BIAs step in to keep things clean (Toronto Sun): "Local BIAs are chipping in to help their neighbourhoods during the ongoing civic workers strike."
Federal regulators ready to click on the Web (National Post): "Federal regulators are preparing to investigate how the country's largest cable and telecom companies control the flow of Web traffic on their networks in a series of landmark hearings that are expected to have lasting implications for how millions of Canadians use the Internet." [Previous coverage on Torontoist: Oh! What a Throttled Web We Weave and Canada’s ISPs Need a Good Throttling.]
Stop meddling, students tell Tories (Toronto Star): "York University, still recovering from a bitter 12-week strike, cannot seem to escape political fireworks, even during the summer. In this latest fracas, the York Federation of Students is accusing two Conservative politicians—federal MP Peter Kent and provincial MPP Peter Shurman—of interfering with York's turbulent student politics."
Police make arson arrest (Globe and Mail): "Two days after a blaze tore through a Mississauga townhouse development last Monday, leaving ashes and $10-million in damage in its smoky wake...Peel Regional Police arrested Adam Zyskowski at his parents' home in Etobicoke Saturday morning and charged him with two counts of arson and one count of wearing a disguise."
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Wearing a disguise is a crime? Obviously if guilty an arsonist should face punishment, but that's a hilarious charge..
I dunno...wearing a disguise for the express purpose of making it harder to be identified when you're setting houses on fire seems pretty crimey to me.
Glad there's been a court order to wipe some of the smug off CUPE's face, and some BIAs have noticed they have a responsibility to clean up.
It really bothers me to hear that a federal minister is interfering with a student election. Don't they have better things to do?
Cheers the BIA's for taking this on, though I would add that is isn't their responsibility -- and I'd like to see them withholding some property tax from the City to offset the cost they are incurring.
How is asking questions about a controversion election "interfering"? Methinks they do protest too much. Something to hide? I can see the nearby residents complaining to their MP's and MPP's if there is a legitimate concern that political interest groups are taking over a university.
If they're responsible for clearing the sidewalk of ice and snow, why aren't they responsible for clearing it of other health hazards?
When the sidewalk at their door is covered in rotting shit and swirling crap, it tells me the business doesn't give a damn about the neighbourhood.
I believe that each individual business is legally responsible for clearing snow and from their individual sidewalks, but an area BIA has no such legal responsibility -- of course there are many businesses that are not in areas where a BIA exists.