Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'gregsorbara'
August 20, 2007
The so-called Three Amigos Summit will take place this week at a resort in Montebello, Quebec, where the leaders of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico will meet with business executives to discuss stuff that's none of your business. Incidentally, the tag line for the 1986 movie The Three Amigos was "They're Down On Their Luck And Up To Their Necks In Senoritas, Margaritas, Banditos And Bullets!" Dalton McGuinty will commit the provincial government to taking......
Continue Reading "Bush Is Coming, The Bears Are Coming, The Liberals Are Just Breathing Heavy"May 24, 2006
Union Station is getting a $100 million facelift. Commuters will not just be getting wider platforms but a whole new one when engineers and construction workers finish moving a sewer by 2008. In other transit news, ridership is up all over the country but especially in the GTA. GTA ridership increased by 4% despite rising prices and crumbling infrastructure. Council restricts garage sales to two a year. The reform was designed to take out those......
Continue Reading "Union Station Gets A Facelift, Mills For Mayor?, Sorbara is Back"May 4, 2006
The Star weighs in on Dalton's new rent laws. The big improvement is that landlords can no longer jack up the rent permanently after making repairs, tying rent to inflations, and guaranteed hearings for those about to be evicted by non-payment of rent. Star columnist Thomas Walkom doesn't think it's enough and doesn't actually do anything to help with skyrocketing rents. The man apparently responsible for yesterday's cabbie murder may have attacked a second cabbie......
Continue Reading "New Rent Rules, Jane Makes it Official and Walmart Goes Green?"January 19, 2005
Remember actor Jim Carrey in his break-through performance as the exuberantly goofy private eye in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective? Now think of that same year, 1994, when the talented Canadian appeared as an unlikely superhero in The Mask with Cameron Diaz. Do you recall the hyperactive green-faced character's famous catch-phrase? Ontario Finance Minister Greg Sorbara does; it's "Smmmokkkkkkin'!" And now you have to pay more money to do so, as Ontario raised the price of......
Continue Reading "Ontario Expects Smokers to Cough Up More"January 11, 2005
Amid renewed concerns of the efficiency of the LCBO, the provincial government has appointed some sort of panel in attempts to modernize the liquor board. While Torontoist didn't actually sit down with panel organizer Greg Sorbara, that didn't stop us from conducting a hard-hitting interview with the Finance Minister. Here's the exclusive: Torontoist: Hi Greg! Minister Sorbara: (no answer) Torontoist: So what's all this we hear about the LCBO? Minister Sorbara: [The current system of......
Continue Reading "Torontoist Pretend Interview with Greg Sorbara"