July 16th, 2008
Wednesday’s headlines
By Monika Warzecha // 2 Comments
TRANSIT
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• Plan to raze Gardiner edges ahead [ Globe and Mail ]
• Council votes to launch assessment of Gardiner [ National Post ]
• On road to ruin [ Toronto Sun ]
• Council begins debate on tearing down section of Gardiner [ CBC.ca ]
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• [ Toronto Star ]
CITY HALL
• Councillor throws support behind backyard hens [ National Post ]
• City Council to use $75M windfall from telecom sale for public housing repairs [ National Post ]
• Toronto council finds $75M for city housing [ Toronto Sun ]
• Telecom sale to free up housing-repair funds [ Globe and Mail ]
POWER
• Smitherman to unveil today power plans at old plant [ National Post ]
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• • Caribana hot! [ Toronto Sun ]
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So we want to be Chicago now? Okay, let's burn the downtown core to the ground and hope that it's rebuilt as the seminal example of the next architectural revolution. It should only take us about a century to become cool. Who's with me?








Here's a link that just popped into my RSS reader:
http://www.economist.com/daily/chartgallery/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11739731&fsrc=RSS
It compares parking charges around the world. Toronto is well down the list, although about the same as Chicago which as we know is very important (having replaced New York at some point as the place we desperately want to be)
Comment by Mark Dowling
July 16, 2008 | 12:03 pm