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Contracting Out

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Mystery picket targets TTC headquarters

September 25, 2012 Town Crier staff Cleaning, Contracting Out, protest, Toronto Transit Commission, transit

Signs suggest protesters upset by proposal to contract out cleaning jobs, but union says it’s unaware of any planned action

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Senior’s trash picked up over a week late

August 31, 2012 Town Crier staff city hall, Contracting Out, garbage, Green For Life Environmental, Josh Matlow

City staff came to collect garbage after councillor intervened

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NEWS 

Bumpy start for private hauler

August 23, 2012 Town Crier staff city hall, Contracting Out, garbage, Green For Life Environmental, Jim Harnum, Patrick Dovigi, Sarah Doucette

Green For Life misses deadlines, but says things will improve

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Green for Life CEO says things will improve

August 23, 2012 Town Crier staff city hall, Contracting Out, Denzil Minnan-Wong, garbage, Green For Life Environmental, Patrick Dovigi, Waste collection

Delays of first weeks not unexpected says Patrick Dovigi

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Long delays in waste collection unexpected: works chair

August 16, 2012 Town Crier staff city hall, Contracting Out, Denzil Minnan-Wong, garbage, Green For Life Environmental

Public works chair Denzil Minnan-Wong says he wasn’t expecting such long delays and setbacks during the first week of private garbage collection.

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Private garbage pick-up rolls out West of Yonge Street

August 7, 2012 Town Crier staff Contracting Out, CUPE 416, Denzil Minnan-Wong, garbage, Green For Life Environmental, Privatization, Public Works, Toronto Strike

If everything goes as expected, residents won’t even notice the city’s switch to private curbside garbage collection, says Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong.

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Snack bar site saved from being gobbled up

July 4, 2012October 30, 2017 Sarah Taguiam Arena, Contracting Out, East York Figure Skating Club, East York Memorial Arena, Janet Davis, volunteer

East York Memorial Arena eatery was to be leased to private operators

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That was then.

Empringham Hotel 1903
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

From stately hotel to strip club—the Empringham story

November 19, 2020February 6, 2023 Eric McMillan

The Empringham, Danforth or Play Pen — they’re all the same hotel, standing at Danforth and Dawes from the late 1800s into the 1980s.

Queen and Waverley 1903
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

Can you believe this century home still stands at Queen and Waverley?

February 27, 2020March 4, 2020 Eric McMillan
Beltline bridge over Yonge Street ion 1915
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

When horses passed UNDER the Beltline bridge

December 1, 2019February 6, 2020 Eric McMillan
Yonge-Eglinton southeast
*FEATURED THAT WAS THEN 

Now that the Yonge-Eglinton mess has been cleared up (almost)

October 24, 2019October 25, 2019 Eric McMillan

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