Silvio Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 PM to unveil $150M for Toronto Waterfront / Film Studio / Varsity Stadium * Paul Martin will unveil a plan tomorrow to spend more than $150-million developing Toronto's waterfront, including new parks, sports and recreation facilities. The Prime Minister will hold a Harbourfront news conference with Toronto-area Liberal MPs for announcements aimed at shoring up the party's support in downtown ridings that face challenges from the NDP. * Insiders say the waterfront plan, which includes $78-million in new money, will create a United Nations peace university, a new Arctic Ocean aquarium, the development of an aboriginal peoples' cultural centre on the Toronto Islands and new dragon boating, rowing and paddling courses. * The plan to turn about 120 hectares of port land -- slated for eventual redevelopment -- into greenspace and playing fields for cricket and soccer is largely the work of Dennis Mills, the long-serving MP for Toronto-Danforth. In a related issue, the Varsity Stadium project is now in the provincial government's court. The plan to build a 25,000-seat stadium in downtown Toronto cleared one hurdle yesterday when the federal Liberal party's GTA caucus said it would recommend a $17.5 million government grant for the university. "The GTA caucus has said, 'Yes, we think this is a good project,'" said MP Art Eggleton. But U of T must now receive similar approval from the provincial government, also for $17.5 million. Sources: "PM to unveil $150M for waterfront," National Post, Robert Fife, A18 "Waterfront hopefuls cut in half," Toronto Star, Martin Knelman, F3 "GTA MPs back Varsity plan," Toronto Star, Rick Matsumoto, C12 "U of T stadium in works," The Toronto Sun, Perry Lefko, G7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoyleG Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 ELECTION!!! ELECTION!!! ELECTION!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argh1 Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 quote:Originally posted by DoyleG ELECTION!!! ELECTION!!! ELECTION!!! I , surrender........just build the expletive deletive thing ! [:0] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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