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The City lost. https://www.omb.gov.on.ca/e-decisions/pl190356-Jun-07-2021.pdf

Applications Submitted for 2161 Yonge Street: Rezoning: 17 186503 STE 22 OZ Submitted: Jun 23, 2017 Site Plan Approval: 17 186498 STE 22 SA Submitted Jun 23, 2017...

What would be the labour costs of running and maintaining those 496 buses? Scrapping the streetcars and replacing them with buses would be a gift to the unions by significantly increasing their membership. Rob Ford is a unionist, or a really bad businessman who can't calculate costs.

BTW, only a socialist would propose a plan without road tolls or road pricing, road tolls tied to demand are about as free market as it gets.

Etobicoke? I find it interesting that his current constituents in Etobicoke receive absolutely no benefits from his transit plan. I guess not one of those 87 calls a day was ever about improving transit access to Rexdale, Humber College, the airport, or Finch/Kipling. Its also funny how there's...

Be careful with numbers taken out of context. Is the liability $186 million over one year, five years, thirty years, the expected career length of all current public servants? Did the City already have this fund put aside, but it was used by City Council to balance their budget (without cutbacks...

When times were good, the City couldn't attract enough staff because the pay and benefits for comparable private sector jobs was significantly better. Working for the City is not a secret club, if you want to join the public service, its not that difficult. The problem with being a trained...

Ahh, yes, I find it interesting when people use the Air Traffic Controllers strike in 1981 as a good example of how to deal with organized labour. What people fail to mention is that weeks before the presidential election, on Oct. 20, 1980, Ronald Reagan wrote a reassuring letter to PATCO...

Rumour was that sales were slow. Merton condos have fairly good resale values, there's not a lot of product and a constant demand. MYC wasn't priced anywhere near the resale prices of the existing 10 year old condos and therefore couldn't capture any of the Merton market. Why would someone spend...