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Strike Watch: Day Forty

By Torontoist

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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  • http://undefined Gray

    Correction: That’s Queen and John.

  • http://www.bitpicture.com Marc Lostracco

    Fixed.

  • http://undefined plaidchocobo

    The Toronto Star’s website seems to have died. They were supposed to be live-blogging the council meeting. Wonder if it was overwhelmed.

  • rek

    Around 3am this morning a street sweeper was working the south side of Bloor.

  • http://undefined Svend

    We’ve all been ratified.

  • http://undefined accozzaglia

    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.