One year ago today, City Council's Executive Committee approved [PDF] the awarding of the street furniture contract—for the purposes of designing, building, owning, and maintaining bus shelters, garbage bins, ad pillars, and more for a period of twenty years in exchange for advertising rights—to Astral Media Outdoor, despite the fact that the company had absolutely no experience with "street furniture" and maintains dozens of illegal billboards in defiance of City Council.......

Torontonians won a hard-fought battle against MegaBins months ago. But it's not over just yet, because many of the MegaBins - like this overflowing one outside of Chester Station - are still on our streets, and will be for some time. A month and a half ago, the city works committee determined that MegaBins were unsuccessful, and rejected Eucan's proposal to extend their stranglehold on our city's garbage and recycling containers past 2008, when......