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It is perhaps a coincidence that this 'spot on the web' we call a blog has been initiated in the same week as the TTC has hastily voted for an across the board fare hike. However, this unfortunate event is but the 'straw that has broken the camel's back.
Toronto seems to be stuck in a crazy dance over funding transit - sort of like the movie 'Groundhog Day'. However, despite increases in funding, the TTC budget problems seem to endure and the service woes continue unabated.
It seems to this Torontonian and transit user that perhaps we are being 'taken for a ride'. This 'blog' will probe:
1. Where on earth the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ is going?
2. Why the TTC is spending so much on the counfounded St. Clair debacle - while transit users on Finch, Steeles and other busy routes freeze in the dark.
3. Ideas from other cities - what's working and what isn't.
4. Discussion on how Torontonians might escape from this mess - e.g. would transitioning to a regional system breathe new life into things.
The ultimate goal is to hold the TTC accountable - a job that in my view Messrs. Moscoe, Miller, Mihevc and the rest of the motley crew on the Commission just doesn't seem up to.
Comments will be welcome. Please be civil and be prepared to support what you say.
Hope y'all enjoy the ride!
posted by N. Clawson @ 7:35 p.m.
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CITY COUNCILLOR JOE MIHEVC IS IN A BIG CONFLICT OF INTEREST WHEN HE DEMANDS MORE FEDERAL SCPI GRANTS!
Toronto City Councillor Joe Mihevc is demanding better funding for Supporting Community Partnership Initiative grants (SCPI,) today, September 12 at the Holy Trinity Church, saying that they have been a big help to Toronto's poor and homeless.
What he isn't saying is that his family is a direct beneficiary of these grants.
SCPI is a federally funded program through CMHC that is administered locally, in this case by the City of Toronto's Shelter HOusing and Support division (SHS).
A few years ago when Councillor Mihevc's wife had just graduated from social work school and was out of work, Mihevc pressured the city SHS's Trish Keachie to award a SCPI grant to East York East Toronto Resources, who created their RENT project www.housingworkers.ca for housing workers to be headed up by Rosalee Bender, Joe Mihevc's longtime commonlaw wife! Mihevc's wife gets a fulltime salary for what is about 2 day's work a month and used to be done in the spare time of one city employee!
In the meantime many social advocacy groups have had no response from Mihevc Chair of the city's Community Services Committee on why the city purposely creates so many delays for those trying to get benefits from Ontario Works.
Mihevc also had som affordable housing in his own ward bulldozed for parking saying that the property was owned by the Parking Authority and tha tlocal businesses needed more parking far more that the tenants needed the housing!
Councillor Mihevc is only using the issue of homelessness and poverty to benefit himself financially and his ward 21 reelection campaign.
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