New Yorkers will ‘never know where our cameras are’

http://economicrisis.com/new-yorkers-will-never-know-where-our-cameras-are/6331 New Yorkers will ‘never know where our cameras are’ New York City police officials intend to expand the already extensive use of surveillance cameras throughout town. The plan, unveiled...

Street Food Culture Zones Soon

Street Food Culture Zones will soon sprout up in Kuala Lumpurto add to its food paradise fame and global tourism appeal.The Ministry of Federal Territories and Urban Wellbeing (MoFTUW) via City Hall is planning to implement the new open "1 Malaysia Fabulous Food" Culture...

HIZZONER & his iPad

Myles Miller in the Blue Room at City Hall- WHAT CAN BLOW a 68 year old billionaire's mind? Those fine folks at Shazam Entertainment Ltd which created the "Shazam" iPad app sure can. Bloomberg gave the application...

Windsor, Ontario Going to Waste

July 30, 2009 The Transformation Has BegunMowing, or should I say, threshing and baling of the tall grass in city parks, as well as garbage and recycling pick up has begun. It will likely take a couple of weeks...

Community garden coming to Vancouver city hall

This is a great message to send to Vancouverites and those who visit the city.  " VANCOUVER — Mayor Gregor Robertson wants the city to join the “grow food locally” movement. Really locally, in fact. ...

City Mgr. Predicts 11% Tax Increase

Penny Ballem, Vancouver City manager, sent an email to all staff late Friday afternoon announcing that there was now a freeze on hiring for all staff positions.Ballem explained that City revenues over the past...

Vancouver City Manager Rogers Dismissed

Judy Rogers, the city manager is no longer at City Hall.  This is probably good for the city's new leadership as it lets them bring in new people and usher in new ideas. "VANCOUVER - Less than a week after...

New Mayor Robertson Hits The Ground Running, Announces Homeless Emergency Act...

by Linda Solomon Mayor Gregor Robertson hit the ground running on his first day as mayor of Vancouver with a press conference at City Hall this morning where he announced the creation of a “Homeless Emergency...

Vancouver's election drama gets even stranger

I hardly know what to think these days.  Vancouver's election will likely be decided based on how people feel about a controversial loan made to a Vancouver developer who is involved in building the Olympic...

Parts of Detroit's Old City Hall Tossed Aside

Photos taken in 2002 at public event at a Detroit city-owned historic site. These are all parts of a tower that stood atop the 1868 Detroit City Hall (which was unwisely demolished to make way for the Kennedy...

Crimes against Carnegie? Or Crimes against Democracy? You be the judge!

May 22nd, 2008  On March 6th, 2008 the Carnegie Centre Association Board of Directors sent me a letter asking me to resign. They gave no explanation for their reasoning. For 2 months I have been trying to learn...

The Year I Spent A Decade On The Carnegie Board

A report of my time as a Board Member for the “Living Room” of the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, B.C., "Canada's poorest postal code" By Rachel Davis, Member of the CCA Board of Directors, but not...

Toronto cabbies demand fare increase to cover gas prices

Great, now I'll never be able to afford a cab..."Toronto's taxi drivers say it's getting harder to make a living and they're looking to city hall for a raise.Drivers like Faisal Mushtaq point to the soaring price...

Rob Ford apologized for "Oriental" remark

It been an eventful month for Toronto city councilor Rob Ford, after his comments of Asian Canadian as “oriental people they work like dog…they sleep by their machines and going to take over”...

Vancouver's hookah parlours lose smoking exemption

Vancouver city councillors faced a boisterous audience on Thursday as they debated a bylaw from last September that exempts hookah parlours and cigar lounges from Vancouver’s indoor smoking prohibitions....

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