TNews.ca – Toronto News At A GlanceToronto News At A Glance
Thomson reveals ambitious bike plan
Sarah Thomson will put bike lanes on University Ave., as well as Richmond and Adelaide Sts,, the mayoral hopeful said Friday.
A suicidal girl’s continuing cry for help
Ontario’s healthcare system appears to be so badly broken that it seems saving money has become more important than saving a 17-year-old girl’s life.
‘Chinese Warren Buffett’ running for mayor
Weizhen Tang — the self-proclaimed “Chinese Warren Buffett” — jumped into Toronto’s mayor’s race Thursday, just a day before the deadline to register.
Davis wants to axe city-funded palm tree
If it isn’t planted before the October vote — and if he gets elected — city council candidate Rob Davis is vowing to chop down a plan to erect a taxpayer-funded aluminum palm tree on a Toronto traffic island.
Candidate wants to sell Oshawa mayor-mobile
Oshawa’s mayor-mobile — a 2010 Chevy Camaro — will be on the auction block if one candidate wins this fall’s election.
Slain woman’s family torn by grief
As Sonia Varaschin’s family waits for the slain nurse’s remains to be released, mother Michele is preparing to look through her eldest daughter’s all-too-short lifetime of photos.
Bell gives teen cellphone loaded with porn
An Oshawa mom is irate after Bell gives teen a cellphone loaded with porn.
$100,000 palm tree coming soon to Toronto
City council candidate Rob Davis says that the city of Toronto is spending cash to build a stainless steel palm tree at the intersection of Vaughan and Oakwood. Davis says the city should be spending the cost of the project – he estimates it is around $100,000 – on planting real trees.
Ford transit plan could cost millions more, TTC says
Rob Ford’s $4.7 billion transportation plan could require the city to review or renegotiate contracts worth well over $1 billion for streetcars and tunnel boring machines — as well as forgoing $68 million spent already on the Sheppard LRT he doesn’t want to build.
Orangeville more cautious
The deputy mayor of Orangeville says that residents have been cautious since the murder of Sonia Varaschin.
