I heard a lawyer on the radio the other day talking about trying to get a class action lawsuit certified, seeking $100 Million in damages from the City of Toronto as compensation for losses suffered by St. Clair Ave. businesses as a result of the… Read More
The City of Toronto launched a 311 service back on September 24. If you call 311, you get a real live human on the other end of the line prepared to answer your questions about the City and its services. Based on my experience with… Read More
After a couple public meetings and lots of discussion around the neighbourhood, the new off-leash area appeared early last month in a field belonging to the R.L. Clark water filtration facility, right next to Humber College and Colonel Sam Smith Park. I’ve been a supporter… Read More
Lots of people in Toronto would like the City to “do something” about the marked increase in coyote sightings and contact in the Toronto area. Noise about this got louder recently after a coyote snatched one of a Pickering resident’s Pomeranians. Residents can’t have it… Read More
Toronto Star Toronto Sun National Post This kind of behaviour is not new to our dysfunctional City Council. This time out it was Paula Fletcher making an inappropriate outburst. Fortunately it’s an election year. Unfortunately, most people don’t seem to bother voting. Also unfortunately, it’s… Read More
Our local dog park has moved. Overnight a few nights ago, it migrated south. Perhaps the City’s overnight task force moved it? Who knows. Somebody moved it. The whole business is merely two signs affixed to sections of gate. Apparently the City was going to… Read More
It seems I don’t often have cause to say I agree with Toronto Mayor David Miller. He’s pushing the province for sustainable public transit funding now and this time I think he’s right. Toronto Mayor David Miller said in a press conference Tuesday morning that… Read More
As all of Toronto knows by now, Adam Giambrone has dropped out of the Mayor’s race in the wake of some unfortunate personal judgement. It had looked as if Giambrone was being touted as the heir apparent to Mayor Miller, but now with him out… Read More
So, off we go, Memphis and I, for our first visit to the official new leash-free dog park at the filtration plant lands next to Col. Sam Smith Park. We enter from the parking lot of the filtration plant and I don’t see any signs.… Read More
I found myself filled with memories as we drove with friends up Ossington Ave to Pizza Libretto for lunch. Look, there, I used to live in that storefront back in the 80s. Yeah, right in the store. It used to be a hardware store and… Read More
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