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How Rob Ford lost the biggest fight of his mayoralty
It’s around midnight on a Wednesday, and Rob Ford is riding the Scarborough RT. When one of his communications staffers, Isaac Ransom, tweets a picture of him, it makes for a classic Ford image—the...
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Power shift
The local group of activists calling themselves Code Red, who are dedicated to overturning the mayor’s transit policy, got a morale boost on Jan. 17. That’s when a group of centrist city councillors...
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Come back, Transit City, all is forgiven
Holy crap, it’s been an insanely enraging week (or month, or year) of news from the world of Toronto transit. Right now, as I type this, apparently 70 people are lined up to speak to the TTC...
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Provincial funding is great for the city, but comes with a whole other set of...
On his radio show last weekend, Rob Ford took time to freelance as a policy advisor for the Ontario NDP. Ford’s advice to party leader Andrea Horwath: “Just say ‘no’” to the minority Liberal...
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Why we must rely on a Jedi mind trick to create transit funding
Ontario’s new premier, Kathleen Wynne, was doing a bit of a media blitz on transit last week, so I went up to Queen’s Park to chat with her for a few minutes about City Hall’s favourite subject. Her...
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We the Tweeple: Gag reflex
Rob Ford’s “Clean Toronto Together” press conference, quickly went off-topic Tuesday, when a reporter asked what the mayor thought of Metrolinx’s recently announced list of potential revenue sources...
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Funding the transit system we want today… with 2006’s tax rate
For a generation of Torontonians, it’s been the question no one wanted to contemplate: How do we pay for transit? Since the 1990s, we’ve been starving the TTC, forcing it to pay 70-80 per cent of its...
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Snapshot: Union Station’s revitalization project rolls on
It’s been over a year since we last caught a glimpse of the massive revitalization project happening at Union Station. The $640 million project will turn the area below Toronto’s biggest transit hub...
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Vandalize this
For the past few weeks, the biggest graffiti mural in Canadian history has been taking shape on a concrete sound barrier in the west end. Between Joe Shuster Way and the GO train tracks running through...
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Trending: July 10
TRENDING UP 1. Metrolinx has released the nifty video above depicting the tunnel-digging process for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, which won’t affect buildings above the underground portion of the line....
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Can Toronto become a public-transit beacon for the world again?
In Taras Grescoe’s new book, Straphanger, he explores the quality of public transit in various countries around the world. “I always planned to end up in Toronto. After all, it was the city where I...
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Trending: April 24
TRENDING UP 1. Metrolinx has approved a light-rail plan that would see four lines built by 2020 (Sheppard East, Finch West, Scarborough, and the Eglinton Crosstown). 2. Google finally rolled out its...
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Derelict Delights: Kodak Building #9
If you’re heading down Black Creek Drive south of Eglinton Avenue West, hang a right at Photography Drive. If you need to stock up on trail mix or Pizza Pops, there’s a super-sized No Frills. But if...
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How Rob Ford lost the biggest fight of his mayoralty
It’s around midnight on a Wednesday, and Rob Ford is riding the Scarborough RT. When one of his communications staffers, Isaac Ransom, tweets a picture of him, it makes for a classic Ford image—the...
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