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Himy Syed, once a mayoral candidate, asked, “How many cities have walked away from something like this and what the hell do they look like now?”
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CodeBlueTO • Don River • Don River Park • Doug Ford • Ferris wheel • Keating Channel • Lower Don Lands • megamalls • Michael Van Valkenburgh • monorails • MVVA Inc • Paul Bedford • Portlands • ROM • Royal Ontario Museum • Sherbourne Common • Sugar Beach • Toronto Society of Architects • Torontoist • WaterfrontTO
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5:51 AM: More hilarity, courtesy of defeated mayoral candidate HiMY SYeD. Begins: “We need to acknowledge the city staff and clerks, they are the unsung heroes of this.” (This is true.) Then continues: “I’m a member of Ford Nation. Nobody was gonna do it, so I stepped up.” …
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City Hall • core service review • Deputants • Deputation • executive committee • Ford Nation • Josh Matlow • Kevin Clarke • Marathon • municipal budget 2012 • Politics • Rob Ford • TOCouncil • TOpoli • Torontoist
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“I do not want the official Toronto city library bookmobile to become a Tim Horton’s Truck,” said Himy Syed, who argued Toronto needs many libraries to serve its diverse, multilingual population. “If you want to destroy civilization, you burn the libraries.”
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agencies • boards and commissions • Bookmobile • Burn The Libraries • CanLit • Cesar Palacio • Councillor Doug Ford • Destroy civilization • Etobicoke • Etobicoke North • executive committee • Footprints • Grey Areas • heartbeat • Janet Davis • Jaye Robinson • KPMG • KPMG Report • KPMGravy • Library Branch Closings • Library Cuts • Margaret Atwood • Maureen O’Reilly • North York Central Library • Northern Elms Library Branch • Paul Ainslie • petition • Public Polling • Rookie Councillor • Sarah Doucette • Tim Horton's Truck • Toronto Library Board • Toronto Public Library Workers Union • Toronto Reference Library • Twitter • Urban Affairs Library
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“The TTC is the canary in the coal mine, the coal mine is the City of Toronto,” concerned resident Himy Syed said at the meeting. “So if you don’t solve this problem, you’re not going to solve the other problem.”
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Adam Giambrone • Canary • Coal Mine • CTV • David Miller • Gary Webster • Michael Thompson • North York • North York community council • Public Hearing • Scarborough Civic Centre • Service Cuts • Sheppard subway line • TTC
