toonderly
Active Member
There's a post from just a couple of pages ago that says MPs and MPPs do have to resign though.
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2023 Toronto Mayoral by-election
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There's a post from just a couple of pages ago that says MPs and MPPs do have to resign though.
christiesplits
Senior Member
I chatted with my city hall staffer friend last night. He works for a progressive councillor. One name that has popped up among some lefty circles is Olivia Chow.
Personally, I think this is a bad choice. Yes, she has name recognition, but her 2014 campaign was very uninspiring. Even if she took a cue from 9 years ago and ran on a more bold and ambitious platform, I think she comes off as "yesterday's candidate."
Personally, I think this is a bad choice. Yes, she has name recognition, but her 2014 campaign was very uninspiring. Even if she took a cue from 9 years ago and ran on a more bold and ambitious platform, I think she comes off as "yesterday's candidate."
Towered
Superstar
LOL! What a joke. Is politics like superhero movies where characters don't stay dead anymore? That ship has long since sailed.
picard102
Senior Member
Yes, it takes time to clear things when a lot of snow comes down at once. This seems to escape the impatient.
afransen
Senior Member
In Mississauga, the MUP I live on was plowed last night better than the road was.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
In Sweden, they clear walkways and bike paths first, especially those near bus stops and primary schools. Next, they clear local roads, and then, finally, highways.
See https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/sweden-snow-clearing-gender-ottawa-1.4500636
Doesn't help when the decision-makers (AKA bureaucrats, councillors, mayor, and their puppet-master the Premier of Ontario) do not walk, do not cycle, and/or do not use public transit.
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SJD_Toronto
Active Member
Ana Bailao spoke about her possible mayoral run the other day on Moore in the Morning.
https://www.iheartradio.ca/newstalk...-for-mayor-on-moore-in-the-morning-1.19313800
https://www.iheartradio.ca/newstalk...-for-mayor-on-moore-in-the-morning-1.19313800
Jonny5
Senior Member
John Tory returned from the political dead and won...
Let's make this a seven horse race!
Is George Smitherman still out there somewhere?
What about Jane Pitfield?
Is Susan Eng still alive?
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picard102
Senior Member
Ya, the sidewalk here was cleared before the roads were. But people want to take any example they can find to use a a cludge to claim they are the victims, hoping no one notices it's an irregular sidewalk that takes longer to clear than a standard width one.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
When there is a pothole, the councillors will make it top priority to be filled.
When there is a snow windrow at your closest transit stop, the councillors will come to see it in April.
Better hurry! The bus is just coming now to the bus stop...
From link.
Boy, this snow windrow is big! Oh darn, my Presto card is in my shirt pocket.
When there is a snow windrow at your closest transit stop, the councillors will come to see it in April.
Better hurry! The bus is just coming now to the bus stop...
Boy, this snow windrow is big! Oh darn, my Presto card is in my shirt pocket.
toaster29
Active Member
So It's Monday, I'm all about patience, and not going for a walk the day of a storm and expecting a smooth totally cleared sidewalk, but it's over 48h+ after a storm, and major street sidewalks (Dundas Street near Islington in Etobicoke) are un-walkable. I guess it's the residents fault who aren't removing snow in front of their houses? Whose responsibility is it to remove the snow infront of Montgomery Inn (Rotary Toronto) at Islington&Dundas ? Every year this part of the sidewalk is NEVER ploughed (plowed?) - not sure it's a city property.
Amare
Senior Member
^Not sure what this has to do with the by-election, but the city wont begin snow removal operations across the city until tonight.
Let's be thankful John Tory didnt cut that in the budget, and spared us from another sad piece of his sad mayoralty legacy.
Let's be thankful John Tory didnt cut that in the budget, and spared us from another sad piece of his sad mayoralty legacy.
Richard White
Senior Member
FWIW, Birchmount Road in Scarborough (between Willowmount and St Clair West Side) has not had the sidewalks plowed at all since the snow started Saturday.
I actually have to walk on the road to get to the bus stop and in doing so, slipped and fell this morning on a patch of melted and refrozen snow. I am fine but I made sure 311 and my councilor were aware.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
The city should be clearing, not just plowing, the snow windrows at corners at intersections, transit stops, and crosswalks.
If the sidewalks are not cleared (not just plowed) of snow, forcing pedestrians onto the roadway, that itself is a good reason for all Toronto streets to be 30 km/h. If there are cleared sidewalks, then we can look at increasing the speed limits, and only then.
If there are no sidewalks on any street, then put up 30 km/h speed limit signs. Would be better if the streets in question were redesigned for the safety of pedestrians, and not as they are currently designed for "safety" of speeders.
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picard102
Senior Member
One follows the other. If you want them to do it all in one go, you're going to have a lot worse conditions for a lot longer to make that happen. Which I'm sure would create even more complaints that snowstorms aren't cleared in 15 mins.