UPDATE: Ford loses motion to defer transit proposal

City council's transit debate begins

CITY HALL - Toronto Council's debate on the future of Transit City got underway Wednesday morning as the special council meeting received thousands of petitions from across the city in favour of the light rail plan.

TRANSIT: Special council meeting Wednesday to debate LRT, subway plans

CITY HALL - A majority of council wants to debate a plan to resurrect portions of former mayor David Miller's Transit City light rail plan - and on Wednesday morning, they'll get the chance.

TTC chair Stintz calls for special council meeting on Transit City

CITY HALL - TTC Chair Karen Stintz and 22 other city councillors have demanded a special council meeting to consider whether to bury the Scarborough-Eglinton Crosstown LRT.

INSIDE NEGOTIATIONS: Holyday credits aggressive strategy in bargaining

CITY HALL - Toronto’s aggressive strategy at the bargaining table had a major impact in getting a tentative deal signed with the union representing its outside workers, said Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday.

UPDATE: City, union have tentative agreement

CITY HALL – City of Toronto and CUPE Local 416 negotiators have reached a tentative contract agreement, union president Mark Ferguson announced Sunday morning.

LABOUR UPDATE: Union president wants to 'tone down' rhetoric

CITY HALL - The national president of the union representing Toronto’s outside workers in contract negotiations with the city wants to “tone down” the rhetoric as talks continue Saturday, Feb. 4, in advance of midnight deadline.

Negotiations: City eyes changes to working conditions if no deal reached by Sunday

CITY HALL: A strike or lockout of the City of Toronto’s outside workers is not possible this weekend, but the city was preparing on its own to change working conditions for 5,100 employees if a deal is not reached by Sunday morning.

People at Eglinton Square share variety of opinions on transit plans

SCARBOROUGH - Toronto's mayor repeatedly suggested to the media, people who approached him at Eglinton Square "want subways" and "don't want streetcars."

Mayor makes it clear he wants Scarborough rapid transit underground

As rush-hour traffic crawled along Eglinton Avenue, Rob Ford and four Scarborough councillors stood to denounce the idea of running the Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown LRT on the surface.

"Look behind me. You cannot move. Just imagine putting a street car in the middle of all that traffic...

Sheppard subway: Chong urges calm

CITY HALL - As Toronto Council is divided over whether to bury the Scarborough-Eglinton Crosstown light rail line, Gordon Chong is urging calm.

Ombudsman calls for clearer role definition in city bureaucracy

Toronto politicians and senior city staff operate too intimately with one another and it may require provincial legislation to better define the boundaries between public servants and elected officials.

That was the message from Toronto's ombudsman Fiona Crean, as she delivered the 2011...

Councillor Ford dismisses Integrity Commissioner's report on complaint

Etobicoke North Councillor Doug Ford had some colourful words for a report from Toronto's Integrity Commissioner, demanding that he apologize to a local activist for uttering what the commissioner found to be intimidating language.

"It's a bunch of horses**t," said Ford in an interview with The...