Community Management Boards for Rinks, or Parks?

February 20, 2006

Editorial: Does Anyone Have a Broom?? The system for maintaining most city rinks is a shambles.

posted February 19, 2006

A Clash of Cultures?: Recent events at Dufferin Grove Park leading to the contemplation of a Management Board for the rink again raise the question: why is there a serious "crisis" -- a conflict with the city -- once or twice a year?

posted February 18, 2006

Thoughts About Parks: Doing More With Less?. It’s time to clear up a few things about Dufferin Grove Park and our taxes.

posted on February 16, 2006

Fact sheet? on City of Toronto community Boards of Management

posted February 16, 2006

Outdoor Rink Reports?. Here's a look at the rough-and-tumble world of running some of Toronto's outdoor rinks.

posted Feburary 15, 2006

Ice Thickness?. Each time the ice surface is flooded, the ice slab increases in thickness. While this increase is minimal, there is an additive effect throughout the rink season.

posted Feburary 11, 2006

Report of Community Meeting about Rink Management Board Proposal?

posted February 6, 2006

Letter to the general manager of Parks, Forestry and Recreation?

posted February 1, 2006

Why a Management Board for City Outdoor Rinks?? The City's management of outdoor compressor-run ice rinks isn’t working.

posted January 24, 2006

Editorial: The Upside Down World of City Rinks?

General Information

posted Feburary 15, 2006

Refrigerant Safety Issues?. According to its thermodynamic qualities, ammonia is one of the best refrigerants presently known.

City Playground Removals

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The issues:

October 24, 2005

Playground Destruction: Why we're concerned?

November 9, 2004

Editorial: Making the Playground Safe?

August 5, 2004

Playground Removal, May 2004 Newsletter?

Playground Issues Digest?

Database of playgrounds:

December 6, 2004

City Playgrounds Database?: a Wiki of the City's 1999 survey, plans and pictures for about 780 playgrounds

December 6, 2004

City Playgrounds Survey, 1999, Summaries?

Fighting to get information:

August 9, 2005

Freedom Of Information: We Get a Surprising Answer About Playground Injuries?

August 6, 2005

Analysis of CELOS’S Appeal with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner?

May 11, 2005

Snakes and Ladders: City Secrets Game about City Playground expenditures?

Latest Research & Comments

September 13, 2005

What's the matter with the $10.3 million rink energy retrofit contract? (pdf)?

August 10, 2005

Diary: Parks and Rec New Functional Management Approach?

See the news page...?

Insights into the City

October 23, 2005

Quotes from the MFP Report (pdf)?: A litany of problems in the bureacracy

September 16, 2005

MFP Inquiry Notes (pdf)?

March 1, 2004

Mayor David Miller's Inaugural Speech, December 2, 2003?

Cinergy: $10M Contract

September 13, 2005

What's the matter with the $10.3 million rink energy retrofit contract??

December 3, 2005

Cinergy Correspondence Diary?

October 25, 2005

The agreement between CINERGY SOLUTIONS and the City of Toronto: excerpts?

City: Access to Information

July 25, 2005

First Batch of City's Playgrounds Secrets are Safe With Them?

June 24, 2005

CELOS publishes its presentations to provincial Access To Information Adjudicator?

May 11, 2005

Snakes and Ladders: City Secrets Game? about City Playground expenditures

April 27, 2005

City Parks and Rec Department has trouble accounting for large expenditures?

November 18, 2004

List of requests?

See the Access To Information Page?

City: Management

February 16, 2006

Parks, Forestry & Rec's current plans, 2005-2006 priorities?, and strategic plans including community engagement?

August 10, 2005

Diary: Parks and Rec New Functional Management Approach?

July 25, 2005

Parks and Recreation Revolution?

October 24, 2005

Parks Forestry and Recreation Managers (pdf)?: Who to talk to?

See the City Management Page?

June 1, 2004

Map of Strategic Planners' Minds?: Restructuring City of Toronto Parks and Recreation, May, 2004

June 1, 2004

An interesting paper about stewardship (definition) in the public service by Jim Armstrong, with reference to the thought of Jane Jacobs. Read more >>

City: Spending

posted November 22, 2005

Park levies questions: The City collects levies on new development. How much? And where does it go?

November 2, 2005

City Audit Committee calls City debt levels "unsustainable"?

September 13, 2005

Sample Retraining Costs (pdf)? obtained through access to information

November 18, 2004

City secrets: Parks and Rec Consultants Fees?

June 7, 2005

A city document - list of Parks and Rec consultant fees (pdf)?

November 21, 2004

City's Ontario Works Funds?

August 12, 2004

THE $803,000 LIST: Boondoggle??

August 4, 2004

$800,000 P&R facilities audit passed...?

See the City Spending Page?

Insurance and Lawsuits

October 12, 2005

Legal Claims against the city for injuries in parks: answers so far (pdf)?

October 12, 2005

City Insurance: Freedom of Information requests and the answers we got so far (pdf)?

City: Policies and Programs

November 2, 2005

Parks & Rec Advisory Council Terms of Reference (pdf)?: Could be applied to Dufferin Grove Park

April 14, 2005

Celos Launches EMERGENCY PLANS research?

March 15, 2005

Breastfeeding and Human Rights in Public Spaces?

March 8, 2005

OHRC Breastfeeding Letter?

March 8, 2005

Parks GM Breastfeeding Letter?

March 8, 2005

City CAO Breastfeeding Letter?

July 29, 2004

A Visit With the Judge?

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Legal

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