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  • Liveblog: Oct. 2 City Council meeting

    Liveblog: Oct. 2 City Council meeting

    City Council’s back from summer holidays with a jam-packed agenda, featuring plastic bags, the Port Lands, Casa Loma, the budget, that ombudsman’s report, and more! Continue reading →

  • The Cities Men Don’t See, part 2

    The Cities Men Don’t See, part 2

    In the wake of a frightening wave of sexual assaults across the city, women are organizing to reclaim nightspace. But, for many people, nightspace is not the only—or most—dangerous space, and truly inclusive, transformative work requires some heavy self-criticism. Continue reading →

  • No Concrete Solutions for the Waterfront (Yet)

    No Concrete Solutions for the Waterfront (Yet)

    “We are not moving.” This was the site supervisor at Lafarge Canada’s lake-side cement depot this afternoon, and it could easily be the substance of a letter that Waterfront Toronto received from the concrete company this morning. LaFarge’s property, which sits at the mouth of a future, naturalized Don River, made … Continue reading →

Board of Health meeting 22 October 2012

Today, the Board is talking about pedestrian deaths in Toronto due to cars running them over, amongst other things. On your mark . . .

Posted on October 22, 2012 by accozzaglia

Reading reports so you don’t have to: food and housing

Today, Executive Committee talks affordable housing. Here’s a rundown of the recommendations from Cllr Ana Bailão’s working group—and why they dovetail with the Daily Bread Food Bank’s policy goals. Continue reading →

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Neville Park

What the bitter end of the Jarvis bike lanes means for Toronto bicyclists.

In short, yesterday’s vote at city council, on the phasing in of the completed Sherbourne bike track coinciding with the return of the convertible fifth wheel lane on Jarvis for cars, comes down to five practical things: As a cyclist-commuter, you won’t be getting a completed Sherbourne bike track until … Continue reading →

Posted on October 3, 2012 by accozzaglia

Liveblog: Sept. 24 Board of Health meeting

Despite a late arrival, let’s get this post-summer check-up going.

Posted on September 24, 2012 by accozzaglia

Liveblog: Sept. 24 Budget Committee

School’s back in session, kids. Here’s this meeting’s agenda, where we’ll be talking ~surpluuuuus~.

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Neville Park

Son of #FordCourt: day 2 liveblog

Son of #FordCourt: day 2 liveblog

Less facepalming, more dry legal wrangling. Continue reading →

Posted on September 6, 2012 by Neville Park

Law and Forder: #FordCourt liveblog

Law and Forder: #FordCourt liveblog

Top lawyers Lenczner and Ruby face off over Ford’s alleged conflict of interest. Continue reading →

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Neville Park

Jiminy Crickets

During yesterday’s memorial marking the 1st anniversary of Jack Layton’s death, the inevitable Will she? Will she?! question came up. Would Layton’s widow, Trinity-Spadina MP and former city councillor, Olivia Chow, run for mayor of Toronto in 2014 against incumbent Rob Ford? Inevitable certainly since a recent poll was released … Continue reading →

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Daren Foster

Quotable: Jane Jacobs on municipal public hearings

Quotable: Jane Jacobs on municipal public hearings

“A public hearing in a big city is apt to be a curious affair, simultaneously discouraging and heartening. Sometimes the sessions are calm and speedy; but often they are tumultuous and last not only all day, but far into the night. Whole segments of city life, problems of neighbourhood upon neighborhood, district upon district, parades of remarkable personalities, all come alive in this room…” Continue reading →

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Neville Park
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