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City of Toronto Leaf Collection, Global Warming

When autumn leaves refuse to fall



The city of Toronto announced last week that there would be no change to their leaf collection times. Although the city has reduced the number of pickups this year from six weeks to four, collecting bags of leaves will end as scheduled on December 7.

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The problem with that is that because of the mild temperatures that we have had during the fall, many leaves are still on the trees. Unless there is an unanticipated cold spell, many leaves will still be falling well into December. The city's response to this, in a word, is "tough". Not our problem. The is another perfect example of a municipal government that is so wrapped up in politically correct leftist causes that they have little interest in providing the core services that is the real purpose for which they exist. For Toronto City Hall watchers, one could get the distinct impression that their reason for being is to beg for money from the other levels of government. Despite the shortage of money that this council has, they always seem to find the funds to purchase multi-million dollar theatres and to give to any and all left wing special interest group that approaches them with their hands out. But as far as real municipal core services such as roads and leaf collection, they really have little interest. What is interesting is that most of the council adhere to the religion of global warming and all of the doom and gloom scenarios that will bring in the destruction of the planet. Global warming and saving the earth has a much higher priority than those boring services that they are elected to supply. Yet having been confronted by a relatively minor problem that resulted from warmer than average temperatures this year, they are powerless to do anything about it. They're your leaves, you take care of it! Were the city mothers really paying attention to climate and rising temperatures, they ought to have known that their leaf collection would have to be extended. But no; they are so caught up in the trendy rhetoric about global warming that they completely ignore the reality of the current year's temperatures. The ground being littered with leaves well after the last municipal collection is a relatively minor matter; yet they are incapable of taking care of it. They were probably way too busy sipping their subsidized lattes and watching Al Gore movies to even notice how long the leaves were on the trees. But not to worry; they really do have a solution. They are telling Torontonians to just store their leaves over the winter. Some solution. They are advising the unwashed masses to simply bag their leaves and keep them in their garages. That sounds like a nice solution, but usually those people with the biggest garages have more property and more leaves. And it's a sad fact of life for these councillors, but a lot of people's garages are filled with those evil cars that council hasn't yet found a way to legislate out of existence. And what about those residents who are garage deprived? Councillor John Filion has stated that if damp leaves are stored inside, there is a chance of mold developing. And the wet leaves will do a good job of attracting insects and rodents. All because the city refuses to continue pickups until all the leaves have fallen. The other suggested alternative is to store them outside. Now, that might have been feasible in the olden days when people could put leaves into plastic bags. But those bags have been outlawed because they are not environmentally-friendly. The city will only pick up leaves if they are put into paper bags. And if leaves in paper bags are left outside, exposed to the elements, they will simply disintegrate, along with their contents. Of course people are free to drop their leaves off at the city's facilities which make you wonder why we are paying ever rising taxes to these bozos who provide less and less services. Councillor Rob Ford has the right idea. He intends to simply put any late-falling leaves into ordinary garbage bags that the city will haul away during their regular garbage pickups. With all due respect to the councillor, he isn't the only one who has thought of that. Enough is enough. Only the most obsessed recycler will refrain from mixing leaves in with their regular garbage. It certainly beats having to look at leaves until the city is ready to pick them up again next year. Should global warming be a reality, the city of Toronto will become uninhabitable long before the rest of the planet does. It's getting to be uninhabitable now.


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Arthur Weinreb is an author, columnist and Associate Editor of Canada Free Press. Arthur’s latest book, Ford Nation: Why hundreds of thousands of Torontonians supported their conservative crack-smoking mayor is available at Amazon. Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin is also available at Smashwords. His work has appeared on Newsmax.com,  Drudge Report, Foxnews.com.

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