February 4th, 2010
Thursday’s headlines
By Katia Snukal // 1 Comment
TTC
• TTC bus driver suspended over coffee break probe [ Globe & Mail ]
• TTC driver caught on break suspended [ Toronto Star ]
• Idle pass machines frustrate TTC riders [ Toronto Star ]
MAYORAL RACE
• George Smitherman's non-contradiction [ Globe & Mail ]
• Adam experiment [ Now Magazine]
• LRT meeting brings out mayoral candidates [ National Post ]
ICE TIME
• Figure skaters spinning mad over rink times [ Toronto Star ]
• City, parents and officials clash over ice time [ Globe & Mail ]
• Cooler heads in the city's ice issue [ National Post ]
• Rocco Rossi draws blood as mayoral hopefuls meet [ Toronto Star ]
• James: Rossi's outsider chance [ Toronto Star ]
NEIGHBOURHOODS
• Keepin' it real for the renters up on Steeles
• Residents want special cop unit all year round [ Toronto Sun ]
OTHER NEWS
• Fantino corruption charge thrown out [ Toronto Star ]
• Teachers' summit coming to ACC [ Toronto Star ]
• Fumes over Port's green plan [ Now Magazine]
• Slate museum [ Eye Weekly ]
• Marathon applicants get more time [ Globe & Mail ]
• Bring on the Toronto democratic revolution [ Eye Weekly ]
• Tourism gets boost from big events [ Globe & Mail ]
• January housing sales in 'recovery phase' as sales jump 86% over last year [ National Post ]
• Toronto Grace hospital saved on voting day [ Toronto Star ]
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Today's Fixer column in the Star (see "Idle pass machines...") recalls an incident from 2 years ago that Councillor Giambrone's many fans on this site would no doubt like everybody to forget. When confronted with complaints forwarded by Fixer readers regarding the TTC, the Councillor "STRUGGLED TO CONCEAL HIS DISDAIN... insisting that we and the riders were wrong; service is improving, he claimed, adding he had audits (paid for by the TTC) to prove it." (Quotes are columnist's words.) So, in other words, he was insisting that he had 'research' proving the public was wrong. (Probably done by the same firm that did Rob Ford's polling.) That is the very definition of arrogance, incompetence and putting your head in the sand. Given this attitude in the TTC Chair, it's no wonder that the St. Clair ROW project turned out to be the disaster it did. (Absolutely mindboggling how this character keeps getting described as a 'brainiac'.)
Comment by samg
February 4, 2010 | 11:48 pm