Results tagged “committeeroom”

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 attendance).

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.

Photo of a locked-out Keele Station during last year's strike by David Topping.

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 committee chair Leon Benoit "threw down his pen, declaring, 'This meeting is adjourned,' and stormed out [of the room]" just moments after the committee's witness predicted that the government's plan to further integrate U.S. and Canadian energy supplies would mean that, "Canadians will be left 'to freeze in the dark.'"