By now you’ve probably heard that the City of Toronto public budget hearings continued through the night and into the morning, making this the longest City Council meeting in the city’s history.The Star reports:Some 168 people took Mayor Rob Ford up on…
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wmtc: imp strump: the library as public oasis
Impudent Strumpet:If home is too crowded or noisy or uncomfortable or abusive or non-existent, having somewhere else to go – a perfectly respectable place to go and to be (compare the connotations of spending hours in the library vs. spending hours in …
Continue readingwmtc: torontoist: will the anger against ford be a tipping point? ten things to know
Excellent analysis from Torontoist:It is far too soon to tell whether the long, dense sequence of anger-inspiring comments, falsehoods, and dubious policy decisions Rob and Doug Ford have been responsible for this month will represent, in retrospect, s…
Continue readingwmtc: the ford brothers vs. libraries, continued
Doug Ford: Why do we need another little library in the middle of nowhere that no one uses?”Library users: We want our votes back.The Star is devoting some serious real estate to Fords vs. TPL. I happened to see a hard copy (at the library!) today, and…
Continue readingwmtc: toronto, your mayor wants to hear from you. tell him you value your public library.
When Toronto City Council’s executive committee meets on Thursday to start making decisions about the future of the Toronto Public Library, you can help defend Toronto Public Library. And if you can’t make it, you can surely make a phone call.The com…
Continue readingwmtc: mississauga has arrived: sexy suburban buildings make real estate splash
These sexy buildings are right down the street from us. Allan and I both like them a lot, and have watched their progress in the Mississauga skyline with interest. Apparently many people have been doing the same. From the New York Times real estate pag…
Continue readingwmtc: toronto’s ford brothers: does a true word ever leave their mouths?
James posted this in comments yesterday, but it deserves its own thread: Top Five Ford Lies. If you haven’t seen it yet, please go read.Of course, politicians with a privatization agenda never let the facts get in the way of their profit-driven ideolog…
Continue readingwmtc: toronto has more donut shops than libraries. fight to keep the libraries open.
Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford thinks his city has more libraries than donut shops. In fact:When the Urban Affairs branch closes, Toronto will have 3.9 libraries per 100,000 people, which is what Vancouver has. Halifax has 4.3 libraries per 100,000 …
Continue readingwmtc: help protect tpl from ford’s privatization rampage
Mayor Rob Ford is out to privatize the living daylights out of Toronto. Privatization is a great deal for the corporations that pick up lucrative contracts, and a very bad deal for everyone else. As privatization grows, quality of life erodes.Next on F…
Continue readingwmtc: rally for postal workers, rally for all workers, rally for public services
This morning in Toronto, locked-out postal workers and their supporters will rally at the legal offices of Canada Post, to protest the collusion of Canada Post and the Conservative Government to strip workers of their legal right to collective bargaini…
Continue readingwmtc: racist bus ad in mississauga, part two: we win!
Remember this?
I wrote about this here.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of my comrade Peter, we were able to organize the requisite five complaints needed to trigger a City review of advertising. And guess what? We won!
Dear Laura Kaminker:
Thank y…
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