East Of Yonge Street This Won't Be Picked Up!

Royson James: ‘Easy’ garbage privatization vote took lots of effort


Critically balanced city council means mayor must rule with compromise rather than by fiat — a lesson Mayor Ford is learning as he goes...

Marcus Gee

Left-wing councillors get their hands dirty by trash-talking Ford

Mayor’s critics lay out lurid nightmare scenarios of the mayor’s plan for privatized garbage collection

Waste firm may sue city


Council votes 23-21 to ban Progressive Waste Solutions from bidding on any of the four contracts the city will put up for tender Progressive recently hired the city’s top waste official, Geoff Rathbone, as a recycling executive

...21 councilors didn't see possible conflict of interest accusations?

Mayor Bloomberg (NYC) Shouls Have Contact Mayor Mel...

...if he wanted to know how to deal with SNOW!

Wouldn't Want To Live Anywhere Else...

Giving thanks to our city


Tired of hearing mayoral candidates complain about taxes and cyclists, marathons and more, we’ve decided to show some gratitude to the things we love about Toronto.

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My Toronto: Find out what local notables find charming about their town

...and the determining factor is the Linus van Pelt Blanket Philosophy!

 

Another Example Of Toronto Community Housing Ineptness...

...and in this case it involves tenant safety! At the same time we cannot excuse the lack of community involvement in dealing with gangstas and social in-activists.

No security video of Regent Park shooting: report

Surveillance cameras in a Regent Park building weren't working when two people were shot dead in the lobby early Saturday morning, according to a new report.

Pair possibly killed in mistaken identity

Four young black men have been gunned down in two double murders in 11 days — all possible cases of mistaken identity — and their killers remain on the loose. Full Story

Community needed in crime fight — Victim advocate


One of the two teens executed as they left a party in Regent Park over the holiday weekend was only 15 years old — the youngest to be killed by a gun so far this year.

Probably A Good Thing...

Toronto policed by out-of-towners

Suzie Fox-Vignarajah, a Toronto police officer working in Etobicoke lives in Burlington with her family including her husband Ganesha, son, Kiran, 8 and daughter Alicia, 5.

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By Daniel Dale

Fri Sep 03 2010

Almost two-thirds of the recruits who joined the Toronto police force between 2000 and 2009 lived outside the city. 

...if they did live in the City of Toronto they would be subjected to the harassment, lunacy of city workers and petty civil servants and the decisions of a council of clowns and a left wing mayor. Let's not lose sight of the fact that they have access to various weapons and know how to use those weapons and that coups around the world are carried out by people in similar situations.

$3.5M For Flagpole $88M For Sports...

Revised four-pad stacked arena would cost $88-million

New eight-storey design of Port Lands Sports Complex would free up waterfront land for further development Aug 12, 2010

...while our debt was $2.7 billion at Dec. 31, 2008, and is forecast to rise to more than $3.5 billion by 2016, before subsiding, and it costs the city $450 million a year to pay interest and principal on the city debt. 

Getting Recognized By International Media...

 

Zombie pedestrians in hazardous Toronto traffic

14 die on the streets in a 4-week period — the highest one-month total in a decade.

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...and in Jordan we have suicide walkers;

Mideast danger? Fastwalkers
The latest Jordanian craze: fast-walking. Massive groups of fans swarm through streets, blocking traffic and endangering themselves and motorists. —7iber