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Transit-vote mess is all about garnering electoral advantage
Toronto :: Canada | 14 days ago
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EDT With Scarborough's support, Rob Ford will be hard to beat in 2014. (Fernando Morales/The Globe and Mail) Jockeying for electoral advantage is the main reason for the much-discussed mess at Thursday's city council meeting on transit taxes...With a
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Subway or LRT for Scarborough? Commuters divided
Toronto :: Canada | 15 days ago
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Commuters divided Jusin Fauteux The Globe and Mail Last updated Friday, May. AM EDT A series of photos posted by a City Hall staffer show Toronto Mayor Rob Ford riding Scarborough rapid transit and engaging a fellow passenger in discussion on Feb. 9,
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City hall on calculated political gamble with transit — James
Toronto :: Canada | 16 days ago
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Photo Save to mystar Out of the morass and chaos of a rudderless city, Toronto city council emerges today a cantankerous constellation of near-dysfunction, yet miraculously clutching the prospects of an unprecedented burst of transit improvements...
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Toronto council wades into murky transit tax talks
Ottawa :: Canada | 17 days ago
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Save to mystar City council's discussion of transit taxes had barely begun Wednesday before it was clear that councillors were already earmarking the money for transit lines. The lines discussed ranged from the Scarborough RT and downtown relief
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Tory calls out Ford, Wynne to get transit taxes done
Toronto :: Canada | 26 days ago
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In a blunt lunch speech to the Empire Club, John Tory is beseeching Toronto city councillors, including Ford , to climb out of their pit of polarization on transit...He wants the Liberal government to outline how it will protect transit tax dollars
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Scarborough subway not as nutty as it sounds
Toronto :: Canada | 7 months ago
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Story Just months ago, after all, city council concluded a furious transit debate by overruling Mayor Rob Ford, voting down his confused plan for a Sheppard subway and opting for a network of light-rail lines. Now the commission has asked staff to
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TTC to study Scarborough subway ‘feasibility'
Toronto :: Canada | 7 months ago
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The Globe and Mail Transit CTV Video video It may be officially spring but southern Ontario received yet another taste of winter as evidenced by the pedestrians bundled up agains the cold and waiting for a TTC streetcar on Spadina Ave...Peter Power/
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Hudak's agenda revives Toronto subway debate
Toronto :: Canada | 7 months ago
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Story TTC streetcar Deborah Baic/The Globe and Mail Multimedia It's a pledge with the potential to ignite an issue most considered settled earlier this year when Mayor Rob Ford lost his case for subways during a dramatic council vote. But just as the
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Stintz transit plan reduced to a footnote on a future study
Toronto :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Kelly Grant and Elizabeth Church The Globe and Mail Published Wednesday, Jul. 11 2012, 7:05 PM EDT Last updated Wednesday, Jul. 11 2012, 7:13 PM EDT In a serious blow to TTC Chair Karen Stintz and her allies, Toronto city council has killed the
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TTC chair backtracks on controversial funding to keep transit plan alive
Toronto :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Stintz is proposing that council agree that the city will pick up the extra $500-million cost required for a subway, but leave the question of how it will raise those funds until the fall. The motion to council would be that we need to study a
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