Critics are lining up to take a shot at Rob Ford’s 2012 budget, which calls for an increase in property taxes, pool closures, shutting down homeless shelters and extending allowable wait times for ambulances, among other things.
[Toronto Star]
The Globe and Mail explores a new label for Toronto: the compassionate city.
[Globe and Mail]
Although Tim Hudak didn’t take the recent provincial election, one of his tweets did manage to become a trending topic. Naturally, it wasn’t actually him who came up with the tweet — it was his four-year-old daughter playing around with his Blackberry.
[Toronto Life]
They may be out of St. James Park, but Occupy Toronto is far from over. The most recent “occupation” was the basement of a Queen West building, until the City served them a notice of trespassing. The “protesters” left the building peacefully.
[Toronto Star]
The $30-million dollar donation from the Thomson family to CAMH is the biggest single donation in Canadian history to fund research into mental illness.
[National Post]
While there is no official confirmation that Canada is pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol, Environment Minister Peter Kent believes that it is a thing of the past.
[Toronto Sun]