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Why TTC’s right to strike is in our interest
To riders, the TTC is a point of rare intimacy between us and city. But it’s also the TTC ferrying us to jobs we hate, handing down the costs of neoliberal underfunding, peppering us with ads that belittle us, and averaging our urgencies out to a schedule and rhythm no one likes but everyone has to follow. On the other side of that intimacy is a profound alienation.
Mayor brags about luring resource giant to “greenest” city in North America
In a statement from China, Miller crowed that the announcement is a further sign that Toronto is emerging as the “world leader in mining finance.”
It’s also a sign of Toronto’s split municipal personality. On the one hand, economic development staff court international mining companies for months. On the other, we’re told that this is to be the greenest city in North America.
But all the hybrid buses, lake-water-cooled condos and living roofs in the world cannot balance a scale loaded down with the immense waste and destruction of the mining industry. All that glitters is not green.