FRIDAY’S JACKPOT
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HEALTH-CARE VISION MORE PROCEDURES SHOULD BE DONE IN CLINICS: LIBERALS {page 3}
MEAN GIRLS, BULLY BOYS
THE STRUGGLE TO FIT IN {page 8}
TORONTO
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 www.metronews.ca News worth sharing.
Daring. Photography
High above the streets of Toronto, Tom Ryaboi peers out at the city.
Local shutterbug seeks thrilling work
TOM RYABOI/BARCROFT MEDIA/LANDOV
Dangerous and daring, the growing craze of “rooftopping” photography has a number of dedicated few “rooftoppers” determined to climb to the top of every skyscraper in their city, hang off the edge and photograph the evidence as proof. Toronto resident Tom Ryaboi, 27, is one of the most notable exponents of this growing movement. He has climbed more than 100 buildings.
TTC chair’s spunk wins some praise Stintz says she believed she had some support in the mayor’s office for her plan, but compromise ‘wasn’t there’
Is TTC chair Karen Stintz committing political suicide or laying the foundation for a future run at the mayor’s office? That question has been circulating around city hall for the past week, ever since Stintz went public with her doubts about Mayor Rob Ford’s transit plan. Suddenly politicians from all corners of council, including Stintz’s
usual opposition on the left, are hailing her courage for speaking openly about the problems with Ford’s underground transit plan. Meanwhile, former Ford chiefof-staff Nick Kouvalis is suggesting that Stintz is being played by provincial Liberals seeking an excuse to wiggle out of their commitment to $8.4 billion in Toronto transit funding.
“The commission can move a motion to have me removed at the March meeting, but I haven’t heard they’re going to do that.” KAREN STINTZ, ACKNOWLEDGING THE OTHER EIGHT COUNCILLORS ON THE TTC BOARD CAN REMOVE HER
“Karen is pushing a proposal that she believes will secure the Eglinton line, but she’s sowing confusion with the province. If Karen is successful, that will allow the province to delay because it has serious debt and deficit problems,” he told the Toronto Star’s David Rider. Stintz was adamant Monday that she has no interest in being mayor.
So what was she thinking when she spoke out against the mayor’s own policy? “We’re elected to make decisions on behalf of everybody in the city, and if we only have so much money, we need to make sure we spend it in the best way we can,” she said. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
The mayor’s take on transit {page 3}