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The chair of Toronto’s affordable housing committee has written the mayor asking him to hold off on a proposal that would halt the construction of new affordable rental housing in the city. Councillor Ana Bailão wrote Rob Ford to voice her committee’s concern over city manager Joe Pennachetti’s report this week on the core services …

LUCAS OLENIUK/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Ana Bailao TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Published: September 16, 2011 5:41 a.m. Last modified: September 15, 2011 9:44 p.m. The chairwoman of Toronto’s affordable housing committee has written Mayor Rob Ford asking him to hold off on a proposal that would halt the construction of new affordable rental housing. Coun. Ana Bailao …

Posted by John Michael McGrath on Monday, September 12, 2011.All photo credit to OPEN FILE Toronto. While the big-name committees at the City (Budget, Executive and of course the full Council itself) get all the glory and attention, a surprising amount of the work that goes in to making the Toronto operate gets handled by the local …

Tuesday evening’s meeting to discuss expanding the Perth/Dupont Library further illustrates how desperate the Junction Triangle-area branch is in need of more space. The number of people who attended the Aug. 16 meeting exceeded the library’s maximum occupancy permitted under the fire code, according to Perth Avenue resident Kevin Putnam, who spearheaded the initiative to …

Residents of a west end Toronto neighbourhood are looking to enlarge their local library at a time when the city is considering closing branches in order to find budget savings. The Perth-Dupont library, located in the Junction triangle neighbourhood, is currently about the size of a small storefront. Library shelves share space with a children’s …

Call it the Atwood effect. At least half-a-dozen more city councillors – including several members of mayor Rob Ford’s inner circle – have added their names to the growing list of prominent Torontonians speaking out against potential library closings. Those sentiments clash with a recent KPMG review of city services that suggests shuttering libraries as …

BY NATIONAL POST AUGUST 5, 2011 On the streets of midtown Toronto, under a light drizzle and gloomy skies, it smells like fall. It sounds like it, too, as resident after resident brings up the issues that have been burning inside City Hall lately, and will again come September when city council deliberates over what services …

TUE AUG 2, 2011_LOCAL NEWS BY: MONIKA WARZECHA Joel Richardson called having his Junction mural erased a humbling experience. The painter and filmmaker said he’d been paid $2000 by the city to paint a mural on the underpass on the south side of Dupont Street west of Lansdowne. The “suit stencil” featured haloed business people turned …

A new Green P parking lot has been established at St. Veronica’s Catholic School in Ward 18. In light of the Dundas Street West construction project this summer, Davenport Councillor Ana Bailao has been working closely with both the Toronto Parking Authority and Toronto Catholic District School Board to set up a Green P parking …

It looks as though merchants along Dundas Street West may get a reprieve from the construction projects that have plagued the thoroughfare in Ward 18 for the past several years. With the finish line in sight for the current project to replace sidewalks, Davenport Councillor Ana Bailao said she learned early this month from the …