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With agreements with both striking unions fully agreed on and ratified, the City's service resumption plan fully in place and workers returning to work, today—barring a disaster at Toronto City Council—will be the final day of Strike Watch, which saw Torontoist's photographers checking in on garbage and recycling bins around the city throughout the strike, an attempt to follow the tangible effects of the strike and complement our other coverage.
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Correction: That's Queen and John.
Fixed.
The Toronto Star's website seems to have died. They were supposed to be live-blogging the council meeting. Wonder if it was overwhelmed.
Around 3am this morning a street sweeper was working the south side of Bloor.
We've all been ratified.
Riding a bike several blocks behind any one of the city garbage trucks, as they emptied the bins, was not recommended. Anything closer would have resulted in a coma, if not sudden death (or wishing to be so). Even with the strongest gag reflex inhibition, the particular odour was overwhelming in a way that I can only describe as epically faecal. In one case, I just held breath and rode as fast as I could past it. Amazingly, three blocks ahead of it, and upwind of it, I could still smell it.
So I'm quite sure that striking garbage workers would have rather not gone on strike long for fear of this. Unless perhaps they have no olfactory sensation whatsoever.