Watchdog asks Federal Court to release Toronto Port Authority audit. Lisa Raitt and Robert Deluce in pre-jet gambit days. Does the audit in the Star headlines have anything to do with Ms Raitt’s port authority travel expenses? The Star’s headline, June 24, in the paper’s online edition describes a filing by Canada’s information commissioner’s office in Federal ...
End Run
The following message is on the port authority’s website. “The TPA is currently working with Waterfront Toronto, Waterfront Secretariat (City of Toronto), Lura Consulting and Toronto Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) to identify the company that will undertake the Environmental Assessment. Once this company has been chosen this FAQ section will be populated with answers to questions ...
Ipsos Polling
While we await this summer’s annual Ipsos - TPA survey that seems more like a marketing tool to influence respondents’ opinions than an actual snapshot of viewpoints, we thought we’d check how port authority chairman Mark McQueen’s favourite go-to-for-results-you-can’t-beat polling firm did on predicting the Ontario provincial election outcome. In a case that looks suspiciously like ...
Will the Liberals stop Island Airport Expansion?
Many of us who have been involved in the long fight against the Island Airport, and more recently the fight against jets, were more than a little despondent with the defeat of Rosario Marchese, the NDP incumbent in Trinity-Spadina, and the election of the Liberal Han Dong. Marchese supported our no-jets, no airport expansion position. ...
Lobbying
As mentioned in an earlier post, Deputy Mayor Norman Kelly put forward a motion before the most recent council meeting. The motion could eventually force community groups that contact councillors and/or staff at city hall about a city-wide issue to register as lobbyists, even though the groups have no pecuniary interest in the city-wide issue. While ...
DĂ©jĂ Vu All Over Again
By now most readers will have heard about the flight cancellations at the island airport. If not, here’s the Star’s take on it. “Porter Airlines flights resume after computer outage” By: Kim Brown Staff Reporter, Published on Sun Jun 08 2014 Passengers taking Porter Airlines are being advised to check the status of their flight after the airline experienced ...