They Didn't Have A Few Minutes To Talk About The Strike?

* They didn't have the balls to cross picket lines and hold the meeting at Toronto Silly Hall.
*They couldn't find a few minutes to talk about pickets hampering citizens from taking garbage to transfer stations?

Council votes to double spending on new streetcars

by Tess Kalinowski

Everybody got what they wanted out of today's zpecial meeting of Toronto City Council.

The Ottawa Citizen’s Susan Riley is quite right that Toronto’s streetcar funding debate-cum-debacle “underscores the shortcomings of a quick-fix approach.” Especially now that the recession threatens not to be as calamitous as many once feared, shouldn’t we spend taxpayer money “intelligently, with an eye to the future?” Yes, yes we should. But it was not “politically maladroit”—well, apart from the f-bomb, of course—for John Baird to deny Toronto’s request for funding. It didn’t meet the criteria. Mayor David Miller is the maladroit in this little melodrama, and had he won, the mayors of every other city that played by the rules would have been quite justified in directing their own expletives in Ottawa’s direction. The National Post’s editorialists have it right: “Mr. Miller has no one but himself to blame.”