Tag Archives: Civic Engagement and City Issues
Call for Nominations to the SPT Board of Directors
Posted on 22. Apr, 2010 by admin.
SPT is governed by a 15-person volunteer Board of Directors elected by individual community and organizational membership at the Annual General Membership Meeting (AGM). The SPT’s Annual General Membership Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 at Okham House/Ryerson Student Centre Conferencing at 63 Gould St. in Toronto. There will be 4 vacancies on the Board of Directors. This is a call for nominations to fill these vacancies at the AGM.
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City Budget Process 101 Event
Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by admin.
Thanks to all for taking part in Social Planning Toronto and Toronto Open Budget Initiative’s City Budget Process 101 workshop on February 3.
Budget Chief Shelley Carroll, CAW Sam Gindin Chair Judy Rebick and TOBI speaker Ann Fitzpatrick delivered excellent presentations to a packed house on the state of the City budget process and how we can make it more inclusive and participatory.
Videos from the evening will be posted online shortly.
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Join TTC Riders for Fair Transit
Posted on 02. Dec, 2009 by admin.
TTC Riders, on the web at ttcriders.ca, is a new organization created to give a voice to the interests and concerns of hundreds of thousands of Torontonians who use public transit.
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Fort York Visitor Centre Design Competition Viewing
Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by admin.
View the submitted designs at an open house in the City Hall Members’ Lounge from Dec. 4 to 6 from 12:00 to 6:00 p.m. each day.
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Supersized and Precarious: The Service Class in Canada
Posted on 18. Nov, 2009 by admin.
New Report from Martin Prosperity Institute not that the service class makes up 46% of total labour force employment, yet account for only 35% of the total employment income.
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