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Toronto residents and businesses will get a break of about $20 on their property tax bill next year thanks to savings from the summer’s bruising 39-day city workers strike.
The decision, made today by Mayor David Miller’s executive committee, goes to council for final approval later this month.
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Mayor David Miller’s sagging political reputation isn’t the only fallout from the civic worker’s strike. Many homeowners are still stuck with yard waste that hasn’t been collected.
Many haven’t had their leaves and grass clippings picked up since the middle of June, and some have resorted to tossing it out with the regular trash.
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Thousands marched through the downtown streets during Toronto’s annual Labour Day Parade Monday, with the notable exception of Mayor David Miller – historically a fixture at the yearly event.
Miller did turn up to shake a few hands Monday morning, but did not participate in the march down University Avenue.
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From Torontoist
On the second full day of the city workers’ strike—June 23—Torontoist photographer Christopher Drost set up a camera rig in a window at the corner of Runnymede and Annette streets. Set to shoot one photo every ten minutes (and one every two minutes once the deals to end the strike were in place), the camera looked out towards the street and over two waste bins, one on the south and one on the north side of the street, snapping shots all day and all night for the whole rest of the strike.
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From MyTownCrier.ca – Strike2009
The city and CUPE locals 416 and 79 reached a tentative settlement today to end the 36-day strike, Mayor David Miller announced this afternoon.
“Without question this has been a difficult period for everyone,” Miller said at a 3:30 p.m. press conference.
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From MyTownCrier.ca – Strike2009
By Philip Alves
The city announced the closure of two more mini-dumps today.
The sites at Caledonia Park and North Toronto Memorial Arena will close at 7 p.m. July 24.
Two new ones will open tomorrow at 7 a.m. to take their place. They’re located at Amesbury Arena and Otter Creek Centre.
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From CBC | Toronto News
Response times from Toronto ambulance crews are “slipping” because of the month-long strike, the city says, and it will ask the Ontario Labour Relations Board to give it the authority to force some striking paramedics to return to work.
“We are asking the Labour Relations Board to change the labour relations agreement in a significant way,” said Toronto Mayor David Miller.
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From CBC | Toronto News
The business of running the City of Toronto will go ahead, despite the 31-day strike by municipal workers.
Mayor David Miller said Wednesday that a special meeting of city council will be held Aug. 5 and 6 “to consider truly urgent business.”
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From CBC | Toronto News
With the litter collecting on many Toronto streets because of the strike by municipal workers, some downtown businesses are taking a step to clean up.
Three business improvement associations in the city’s west end have hired Mark Giesbrecht, who calls himself Mark the Litter Guy, to sweep up.
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From MyTownCrier.ca – Strike2009
By Kris Scheuer
As the city strike nears four weeks, the number of unionized employees requesting to come back to work is on the rise.
On July 15, city hall indicated over 600 members of CUPE locals 416 and 79 had asked to cross the picket lines.
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Even for a city paralyzed by a month-long garbage strike, the mood was festive as the Caribana festival kicked off with a launch party in front of a packed and blustery Yonge-Dundas Square
Organizers, politicians and dancers festooned with feathers joined Caribana chair Joe Halstead on stage to celebrate the kick-off of North America’s largest Caribbean festival, now in its 42nd year. And despite the change in locale to Yonge and Dundas from Nathan Phillips Square, thanks to the civic workers strike, Halstead went out of his way to assure everyone gathered that it was business as usual.
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Liberal MPP George Smitherman is often seen as someone with political ambitions far beyond his current post.
So when he launched a new campaign of sorts Tuesday morning, it fueled more speculation of his next possible job.
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From CBC | Toronto News
Nine Inch Nails and Ben Harper & Relentless7 will headline the Virgin Festival in Ontario, festival organizers announced Tuesday.
The festival will be held Aug. 29 at Burl’s Creek Park in Orillia, Ont., a surprise development after being held in Toronto for the past three years.
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The Globe and Mail has learned it took 25 minutes from the time a Toronto Emergency Medical Service dispatcher was told the man was “turning blue in the face” to when first responders – firefighters in this case – arrived to find James Robert Hearst dead on the floor.
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Marcus Gee
Striking municipal unions have angrily rejected the city’s latest contract offer, but many union members are giving it a good hard look all the same. City officials say that, as of Monday afternoon, more than 28,000 people had visited a special website that lays out the details of the proposed deal.
