Mayor Boom Boom may have a tough time stemming the flow of guns and revitalizing the waterfront during the short life of his mandate but the one problem he could conceivably tackle, if not solve, is the trashiest of them all. As folks from Ottawa to Napanee to Michigan ('We Don't Want to be Canada's Trash Can") angrily tell the big guy to keep his garbage on site, where is Mayor Dave's plan? Leaving Republic......

"This project is absolutely not dead. Rumours of it being dead are grossly exaggerated," says TTC commissioner Joe Mihevc of the recently-halted Streetcar reno plan. Work on the $65 mil project was already messily underway, and now it's not clear what will happen. Regardless of what the ruling was based on, the appeal process will take months, a development Mayor BoomBoom calls "unfortunate." "The tall imperfect Mayor" has been having a lot of bad luck......

The Star is reporting that Mayor David Miller was given a giant cheque yesterday. They say:Nothing grabs attention quite like the sight of a tall, blond mayor stalking the city's streets and subway system carrying a giant cheque for $24.45 million. We agree. We only wish we could have done a photo essay of Mayor Miller and his Megabucks cheque. We thought the era of jumbo checks had come and gone, but it's good......