Archive for the 'City Hall' Category

That’s All Folks

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

After watching as the city swirled around the bowl I have decided to move out of Toronto. It was a hard decision to arrive at. But, when you could purchase a dilapidated wood shed in the Beaches for a half million that was enough. Mayor Miller, who I regrettably voted for, has bitched and moaned [...]

OK, That’s Long Enough…

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

Seven months later and I have finally gotten around to writing on this site again. Far too long. My beef this week? Simple. The city of Toronto has decided to apply another tax against the citizenry. These myopic twerps have decided to charge us for throwing out our garbage. Normally, this might seem innocuous but, [...]

Mayoral Race Heating Up

Tuesday, September 26th, 2006

Having lived in Toronto for many years I have seen a lot of ridiculous crap from local politicians. We’ve seen June Rolands ban the Bare Naked Ladies from playing a concert in Nathan Phillips Square. We saw Mel “Noooobody” Lastman shake hands with the Hells Angels. And we have David Miller. Hmmm, this one has [...]

Soccer Stadium Ready In 2007

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Well a mere 30 minutes before the dive happy Portugese walked onto the soccer pitch for their loss to the French, the city made an interesting announcement. The mayor, David Miller, was on hand for the ground breaking ceremony for a new 20,000 stadium. Now if we could just get soccer to take a foot [...]

Police Still Not Wearing Name Tags

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

The boys (and girls) in blue aren’t wearing their name tags it seems. Mind you this is not a mandatory piece although it would be nice from an accountability aspect. The chief, Bill Blair, planned to make the wearing of name tags when he was sworn in but, that has not happened. “I think there [...]

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