Columnist's Objectivity Questionable.....

.....when she says; "launching a strike that could improve working conditions for their members." How about the rights of those who pay the bills?

Let's take our anger and do something productive
by Tamie Dolny

.....on the other hand we have:

Trash talk obscuring strike's real toll
by Royson James

...another perspective.

Counterpoint: Toronto doesn't stink. No, seriously

Posted: July 19, 2009, 12:13 PM by NP Editor

By Rob Roberts

In case you were wondering, it’s been an unusually lovely summer in Toronto. Not a single smog warning so far; the last extreme heat alert was in June. The roads have been clear, as Torontonians head out to enjoy their cottages.

That trash strike you’ve been hearing so much about? Despite what you may have seen on TV, and read about in Lorne Gunter’s Friday Post column (written from Alberta) suggesting that Toronto has become an acrid hellhole (“The Upside of T.O.’s Great Stink”), most of us have hardly noticed.

The city’s garbage workers are among 30,000 civic employees who have walked off the job, but the city remains clean. Not perfect: Some roadside trash receptacles are surrounded by bags of garbage, and folks who live near the couple dozen parks designated as temporary dumps are losing patience. But these dumps have not yet attracted anything worse than flies and raccoons. There were TV reports yesterday showing rats running around piles of trash in the downtown Chinatown (nowhere near a temporary dump), but, um, that’s nothing new. And in Chinatown, as in most areas across the city, local business associations have hired private trash collectors to come in and clear things away.

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