when Will This Agency Be Held Accountable...

...for poor management, poor communication, deterioration of assets, etc. etc. When you get 2,800,000on google you know there is a problem. The Board of Directors is made up of the Mayor, three councilors and nine tenant reps.

Housing agency admits errors in senior's death

Al Gosling was 82 when he was evicted from his public housing unit after he fell behind on his rent, which had been hiked to market rates due to some missing paperwork. He fell ill after staying in a shelter.

ANDREW WALLACE/TORONTO STAR

By Donovan Vincent

Fri Jun 18 2010

 

The head of Toronto Community Housing Corporation has admitted the agency made mistakes and is “fully accountable’’ in the case of an 82-year-old tenant who was evicted and later died in a shelter.

Follow The Money...

...will take you to the trough reserved for politicians!

If There Had Been More "Seditious" Individuals During the 30s...

...in the USA, Britain and Europe would we have had WWII? 


TIME's Klein: Beck, Palin Potentially Committing Sedition against U.S. Gov't...

ONE OUT OF 3 SAY GOV'T A THREAT...

Poll: 4 out of 5 Americans don't trust Washington... 

We Make The Clowns At Toronto Silly Hall Do It So...

Chris Selley: Pay your taxes and keep your mouth shut

Posted: March 22, 2010, 4:45 PM by NP Editor

Should Members of Parliament have to release detailed accounts of how they spent your money? No, say two Conservative MPs. Absolutely not. What are you, stupid? Here's Gerald "Giant Novelty Cheque" Keddy:

"No," he said. "No way. No way. All [we'd be] doing is opening it up, giving the media an opportunity to find fault. "What we have is an overall budget. We are absolutely 100 per cent responsible for that budget. If we go over that budget, we pay out of our own pocket, and we have very, very good scrutiny."

Go on, you can trust him! And here's Gordon O'Connor:

"Every year, the parliamentary accounts are audited by a respected outside audit firm. Every year. It would be next to impossible for something like [the British MP expenses row] to happen here. The controls . . . are so tight that I don’t think people could do much fiddling, if they tried fiddling."

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation tells the Chronicle-Herald's Steve Maher they're just accounting audits, not value-for-money audits  ... but never mind. You can trust him! He's Gordon O'Connor!

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The IOC Held To Account....

Rex Murphy: Faster. Higher. Stronger. Dumber.

Posted: February 13, 2010, 9:00 AM by NP Editor Filed under: Rex Murphy

 

There have been a few odd, pre-Olympian moments of late, offering interesting aperçus on the eve of the official opening of the Vancouver Olympics. It turns out some 90 buses rented from California were judged not to be quite capable of making the grade up to Cypress Mountain. What did they expect — they’re California buses, probably all very green, with the carbon footprint of a ball of lint and emission standards lower than a rock. California buses don’t have engines: They have pedals. The IOC — high Lords of Olympus — forbade a 16-year-old Australian figure skater, Cheltzie Lee, from competing while wearing “a tiny good-luck charm bracelet she wears in memory of her dead friend”: A teenager’s honest sentiment fails to move the marble gods of the world’s greatest exercise in harmony and the formation of good character. The IOC claims the memorial bracelet comprises a form of “sponsorship,” and I guess to the myopic wizards of Olympic bureaucracy it is difficult to distinguish a memento on a 16-year-old wrist from the corporate billboards of the world’s voraciously advertising megamarketeers.

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