The City Centre Mirror

Registration information for classes running from July 2-25 can be accessed through the board's website at www.tcdsb.org/continuinged/. New credit courses are full-day, running from 8:25 a.m. to 3:35 p.m., while upgrading classes are half-day, with either morning or afternoon classes offered.

Non-TCDSB students requesting online courses will be placed on a waiting list and notified by e-mail if space is available.

For more information, e-mail continuing.education@tcdsb.org or call the Continuing Education Department at 416-222-8282 ext. 2675, 2168, 2894 or 2135.

A University of Toronto professor is out to examine that claim.

U of T urban studies professor Patricia Petersen is conducting research into decisions made by the OMB in planning matters to see whether the perception that the provincially appointed board members favour developers over communities holds true.

The board is often viewed as a refuge for developers unhappy with council decisions or perturbed that the city is delaying unnecessarily in dealing with an application.

Petersen will be working with a fellow urban studies expert in order to bolster or debunk the theory that the OMB is pro-development.

Registration information for classes running from July 2 to 25 can be accessed through the board's website at www.tcdsb.org/continuinged. New credit courses run from 8:25 a.m. to 3:35 p.m., while upgrading classes are half days, with either morning or afternoon classes offered.

Non-Catholic board students requesting online courses will be placed on a waiting list and notified by e-mail if space is available.

For details, e-mail continuing.education@tcdsb.org or call the continuing education department at 416-222-8282 ext. 2675, 2168, 2894 or 2135.

Residents are invited to offer input and work on ways to keep swimming pools at Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute, Glenview Senior Public School and Allenby Junior Public School open beyond the school board's planned mass pool closure next month.

The meeting will take place in the auditorium at Lawrence Park Collegiate, 125 Chatsworth Drive, from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, May 13.

An essential service designation, which would require provincial legislation, would remove TTC workers' right to strike.

The concept was brought forth at last week's City Council meeting, but because the issue did not receive enough support at the meeting to open a debate on the matter, it was sent to the executive committee for further consideration.

At Monday's City of Toronto executive committee meeting, Miller referred the issue to City Manager Shirley Hoy.

The mayor asked that Hoy work with the TTC and external experts to examine the city's options and possible consequences if the city were to ask the province to bestow an essential service designation on the transit service.

Miller requested that the report be completed in time for the September meeting of the executive committee.