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Hey all. I'm sure that ya-all heard about it. The Future Mississauga Conversation for the 21st Century, (Community Engagement Visioning Charrette) AKA Visioning Symposium is now Mississauga HISTORY! Yes, thousands of ideas! ONE VISION. Only they forgot to invite Malton! Yeah, no one...

FYI. Gentrification squeezing out poor Jan 08, 2008 04:30 AM Slinger An examination of what became of Toronto in the last three decades of the 1900s has left some distinguished commentators running around in little circles, flapping their arms and making gurgly noises. Prepared...

Dear Urban TOers. Just letting people know that on Tuesday, December 4, 2007 I attended Caledon Council to document with videotape their debate on the hiring of the "closed meeting investigator" under the Bill 130 Transparency and Accountability provision. A councillor challenged me about...

Citizens of Fort Erie are asking citizens to show up at Council this evening in support of the public's right to videotape public meetings. Far as I know there are only two people who do this in Ontario. This guy in Fort Erie (with council now making moves to restrict/deny public...

OK, Took the subway to Yonge and Bloor and then decided to walk down to Union Station and take the GO back to Mississauga. I wanted to walk to get a feel for what the last speaker of the Mississauga Speaker Series meant by a 5mph city vs. a 60-mph city. Such an eye opener. I just...

Sorry if I didn't put this thread in the right place. Hey, anybody else in the Peel Region get phoned by Environics for a survey? The tele-pollster said they were doing randomly-selected residents of Brampton, Caledon and Mississauga. Thanks.

Last Monday I sat in on a remarkable talk on Placemaking and liveable cities. You know, like what makes truly-liveable cities. Danish architect Helle Søholt gave her presentation at Clarke Hall in Port Credit, Mississauga. As much as I got my first real understanding of "liveable city", I...

Found this an interesting read on the difference in salaries between a Toronto councillor and a Mississauga one. And how Torontonians think their councillors should roll back their pay hikes. Sun, September 9, 2007 Most T.O. residents against council raise By ZEN RURYK, CITY HALL BUREAU...

OK. Some Forumers might remember that The Corporation of Mississauga announced its McGuinty, Tory and Hampton September 19th "town hall" meeting this way. "Each official party will be invited to attend a town hall meeting, held in the City of Mississauga Council Chambers, with an invited...

Found this in the Star the other day. Curious the degree to which TO Forumers agree. The rest is at: 10 Things Miller Should Do (Royson James)

OK, I'm going to the Urban Toronto Forum Well here. The following is essentially a cut-and-paste from today's Blog. I've gotten some pretty good insight from one reader but would still like forum members here to have a go. I need help with the municipal satisfaction results from the...

Goin' to the well here. If you-all can't answer this no one can. I need to do a calculation and therefore I need to know what the average workday is for these people so I can get hours/per year. And I can't include a 24 hour day because there's sleep involved and "maintenance' such as...

LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT YAAAAAYYYY Jim Coyle of The Toronto Star! His article, "Look before leaping into spin trade" or as I, The Mississauga Muse would name it, "Spin-- The #1 ReasonWhy Municipalities Need Our Ontario Ombudsman Dancing on Their Pointy Heads" Mr. Coyle cites a great...

Hey there, TOers. Seems Mississauga dumped all over Toronto Council on Wednesday and well, I'd like some perspective on things. I found this YouTube video of Toronto Council discussing the fiscal situation. It features Councillor Michael Walker. All I know about him is what I've heard in...

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Aloha from Maui, Urban TO Forumers (but especially Mississaugans) The June 20, 2007 Mississauga Council minutes just tipped me over the edge and I just can't take it anymore. It's time to turn the Mississauga Council soap opera into a cartoon. Introducing "Howzit" -a Hawaiian green sea...

Q&A: CAROLYN PARRISH No politician's safe from her quick wit BIO Age: 60 Nickname: CP or Mom Education: Kipling Collegiate, University of Toronto, Ontario College of Education. Profession: Secondary school teacher for English and sociology. Passion: Politics, change...

I read somewhere that there's no such thing as a stupid question. Stand back because I have this feeling that I'm about to toss out two. There's this big thrust both in Mississauga and at the regional level to get social costs off the property taxes and gear it more to income. Here's the...

The case of the poison pothole poem starts Monday Antonio Batista, 75, is accused of uttering a threat and intimidation because of a poem he wrote about Ward 9 councillor Pat Saito. By: John Stewart May 25, 2007 - A Mississauga senior citizen, whose poem about a city councillor...

THE MISSISSAUGA NEWS Activist claims he can't find a lawyer John Stewart Apr 24, 2007 Mississauga political activist Donald Barber told a Brampton court he has been unable to find a lawyer to defend him on charges of assault against a security guard at City Hall. "I really don't...