With some 2,212 responses in just under two weeks, our TTC survey is done, and the complete data is in the hands of Michael Anders, the TTC’s Market Research Director. Tomorrow, Wednesday, the organization will be holding a special meeting in Committee Room 1 at City Hall to discuss their next steps, and Anders has told us that they "will be prepared to discuss [Torontoist's] findings" (whatever that means!––either way, Torontoist will be in......

Apparently, Rod Muir, Waste Diversion Toronto founder, former Toronto mayoral candidate, and current Waste Diversion Campaigner for the Sierra Club of Canada, doesn't mind his nickname. "Mr. Garbage" loves, well, our trash, inspired by all of the lost energy and resources we throw out every day. As ecologists (and increasingly some economists) point out, human beings are the only creatures on Earth that create true "waste." Everything that every other lifeform produces ends up......

Photo of a locked-out Keele Station during last year's strike by David Topping. Yesterday's announcement of budget cuts to the TTC garnered a visceral reaction from just about everyone (and not just angry Globe & Mail readers): a normally cool-headed Adam Giambrone proclaimed that "this is a horrible day...This is going to have a dramatic effect on Torontonians, not just TTC riders." Transit advocate Steve Munro weighed in, too, in a piece detailing what......

It's hard to imagine a better of way of getting people to want information than by trying to keep it from them. That's why the federal government probably shot itself in the foot last month when, according to the CanWest News Service, Conservative MPs "abruptly shut down parliamentary hearings on a controversial plan to further integrate Canada and the U.S." Apparently (and this is still in the words of the news report), the Conservative......