We got out of the city this weekend to pristine cottage country; the air was fresh, the water was turquoise....only to return to a smoggy, humid, smelly, and dirty Toronto. The garbage strike continues into its third week; our local park, Christie Pitts has become a garbage dump. And while the City of Toronto has moved swiftly in terms of multi-lingual contingency planning, and establishing temporary dumping sites, no actual progress has been made.
Our friend L, a quasi visitor to the city, walked over to Christie Pitts last week to take pics.
Pretty Crazy eh?And just so you know, maggots are multiplying and rats are reproducing as I type this. What will happen when and if the garbage is removed? Are we inviting a new bout of the plague? AND, last time this happened in 2002, the City gave in on day 16, and according to City News "we're one day short of breaking that record"...
Yikes! and Yuck!
S.
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