Archive 1997-2016
The Ontario Municipal Benchmarking Index was released last week for the year 2011. The report was put together by several municipalities to measure and compare various cities’ performances across the sphere of public services.
City council made the right decisionWednesday when it tentatively approved a decision to send a letter to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission, expressing the city’s interest in developing a casino.
What is and isn’t art is one of the greatest philosophical debates in aesthetics. Art is subjective. Is it enough for something to be called “art” for the public to appreciate it? Would the general public appreciate an abstract concept that it doesn’t understand? Not when public funds are used.
Smoking while driving, running red lights, speeding, texting and filling out paperwork while maneuvering the wheel with a practiced knee – this is not description of Canada’s Worst Driver, but rather the nature of some of the 2,344 written complaints filed against OC Transpo and its drivers in January of this year alone. For those doing the math, that averages out to around 75 complaints a day.