If you are travelling to Toronto beware that we have an ongoing Civic Employees strike.

Our neutered city council is unable/unwilling to resist the union's outrageous demands so we have collapsed into chaos, held hostage by domestic insurgents. At times you may find your free passage of movement blocked by strikers.

Here are pictures I've found of Garbageland:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/justbad...7620283507477/

Parks are not maintained, ambulances are slowing non-critical service.


Welcome to Toronto, please do not feed the rats!

the only way to fix the city is get the NDP out and get rid of Miller...

Stayed at the Cosmopolitan Hotel 6/29-7/2/09. Visited the ROM (Dead Sea Scrolls etc), Chinatown, Distillery District, St, Lawrence Market and Harborside. The only apparent effect of the strike was the cancellation of the in-town fireworks on Canada Day and unavailability of ferries to the islands.

BTW the Cosmo 1 bedroom hi floor was a deal at 85USD per nite including breakfast, wireless internet, full kitchen, 2 tv's. Self parking for 16CDN per day 2 blocks away (v. 30CDN valet at the hotel)was tolerable.

I'm coming for Caribana, the single biggest moneymaking festival for the city's economy. I am confident Toronto will be clean at that time, because money talks, and Caribana brings 9 figures worth.

The issues affecting tourists are minor. Having a picture of the worst garbage can (Spadina and Nassau shown in the OP looked that way the day before the strike) doesn't give a representative impression. I haven't noticed any other messes like that one. The ferries to Toronto Island have stopped but this affects locals more than tourists.. The Porter Ferry to the TCC airport is operating normally as is all transit and public accommodation. The right-wing members of city council, who never have a constructive idea, are using the opportunity to attack the government. But if workers are on strike, you can either give them everything or wait it out and be positive. The Gay Pride events occurred during the strike and they had their own cleaning crews. I'm sure Caribana will be looked after as well, strike or no strike.

From my viewpoint the city council is in fact resisting the unions ridiculous demands... so not sure what your statement means.

May this strike break the union and the many union members go months with no pay; Long live the garbage strike!!! More pain to the unions!!

Now tell us what you really think! The news today is that all members of council support the city's stand on the negotiations - not because they wish to break the unions - but because the city is taking a reasonable position and it can't afford to cave in. Except for the whiners at Christie Pits, the public has been very cooperative. The people running the temporary holding facilities are being courteous and cooperative. I had to go through some union pickets but the worst I got from them was cheering as I heaved a bag on top of the pile.

There is someone who loves trash....





http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/sto...iller-cnn.html




p.s Break the unions...break them!!!

Definitely union raccoons ... notice the masks - too scared to show their real faces

Definitely Union Raccoons - dug up a corner of my yard last night too!

Just arranged for a local company to pick up my garbage -- strike affect me?? Nyet! May it go long and fester!

Aren't those raccoons Porter employees?

Went to the local park storage dump. Picketers (on lawn chairs) are now blocking citizens from these sites. It could be a tactic for the city to have hired these clowns to get the public irritated at the union. But the union did it for them! Nasty and dumb.

I'm glad I live in the burbs...

Totally agree with the sentiment that if it takes a long strike to get rid of Miller and his spineless cronies then the longer the better. You just know Miller deep down really wants to cave but one look at his approval ratings shows that although he's a union man he's more into surviving as a politician so he has to pretend he is standing up to these overpaid cash for lifers. Good riddance.

Here's a new local attraction for tourists to photograph and show the folks back home.

Show them how we are like vile swine, living in our own fetid squalor and waste.

p.s. we also like hyperbole.



http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/667672