October 2nd, 2009
Friday’s headlines
By Katia Snukal // 2 Comments
E-BIKES
• No more getting the gears for e-bikes [ Toronto Sun ]
• Ontario expands e-bike rules [ CBC News ]
• Ontario unveils e-bike rules [ Toronto Star ]
DON MILLS DEVELOPMENT
• Council rejects community-centre-for-density deal [ National Post ]
• Council rejects Don Mills community centre offer [ Toronto Star ]
• City rejects developer's offer [ Globe & Mail ]
CITY HALL
• Constituents not happy with Bussin [ Toronto Sun ]
• In defence of Miller's wisdom [ Toronto Star ]
• Toronto council notebook [ Globe & Mail ]
• City's trashman lost money during strike [ National Post ]
OTHER NEWS
• Must stores offer alternative to plastic bags? [ Toronto Star ]
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• Parks win with donor largesse [ Toronto Star ]
• Nuit Blanche to close some downtown streets [ Toronto Star ]
• Note to Dundas merchants [ Globe & Mail ]
• Summer 2010: a motorist's nightmare [ Globe & Mail ]
• Laugh a little, Toronto [ Globe & Mail ]
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...and one more reason why Joe's gotta go in 2010.
Harbord St certainly does resemble a "back alley" and it hasn't changed much since I left the neighbourhood 20 years ago. The stretch of Harbord between Bathurst and Ossington has so much potential for revitalization by differentiating itself from College and Bloor Sts, directly south and north respectively.
Where a street like College has many upscale bars, clubs, and restaurants which attract a barrage of people from outside the surrounding neighbourhood, Harbord could have smaller, quieter establishments like this bistro and Sam James Coffee bar which cater more to the immediate neighbourhood. It could become more like the Harbord St east of Bathurst towards UofT and rid its back alley stigma.
Pantalone's concern that the bistro is right across the street from Harbord CI is nonsense. When I attended high school at HCI, there were far worse establishments than a quiet French bisto wanting to serve some wine to people over 18 would be. Have a glass of wine, Joe, and relax!
re: Laugh a little, Toronto (Globe and Mail)
Joe Pantalone's behavior towards the owners of Ici restaurant has been outrageous. The man who pushed for the Front Street Extension, approved a McDonalds drive-through at Dundas and Bathurst, turned Christie Pits into a dumpsite, and now won't even let a bakery open up on Ossington is defying the Harbord community's wishes to see this quiet French restaurant open up in their little stretch of Harbord, which currently resembles a back alley more than an actual street. If you read Pantalone's bashing of Harbord and the Sam James Coffee Bar in the Star from Wednesday, http://www.thestar.com/living/Food/article/702861 , it is clear that he thinks Harbord doesn't deserve any better.
And this anti-urban dinosaur is seriously thinking about running for mayor?
Comment by John
October 2, 2009 | 10:18 am