City hall blogger—and Informer contributor—Matt Elliott has spotted something that we missed: Rob Ford never signed an official proclamation for Car Free Day. Elliott points out that because the application wasn’t filed six weeks in advance, the mayor can conveniently chalk the missing proclamation up to a paperwork problem rather than his hatred for bikes and pedestrians. But that’s not the most interesting part of the piece. Elliott also provides two long lists that show which proclamations David Miller made that Ford has not, and vice versa. While it seems appropriate that Ford has proclaimed “Red Tape Awareness Week,” given the sheer volume of proclamations we’re mostly impressed that the mayor has free time to do anything else. Read the entire story [Ford For Toronto] »
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Apparently, the mayor makes a lot of proclamations—but we still want to know more about “Foot Health Month”
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