City of Toronto bumbles again: Vendor Blocked From Selling Food Near Monument

[the 48th regulator]

The City of Toronto and the Canadian Armed Forces have joined to block one of Toronto's new A La Cart vendors from selling his kebabs near the historic 48th Highlanders monument.

There are times when you just can't fathom the thinking of city bureaucracy. Someone issued a permit to a street vendor to set up his food cart at the base of our Regimental memorial at Queen's Park. Shortly after he set up our ever vigilant CF cadre arrived at the scene and advised him firmly that he must move.

For the news coverage of this incident click on:

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_35718.aspx

 

[chrisf]

Ridiculous that...

- The city would issue a permit to place a food cart at the base of the monument to begin with
- An issue which should only take a few hours to fix is taking much longer to fix and deprieving this poor man of his income.

I question how and why it would take several DAYS to issue a new permit.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Ridiculous that...

- The city would issue a permit to place a food cart at the base of the monument to begin with
- An issue which should only take a few hours to fix is taking much longer to fix and deprieving this poor man of his income.

I question how and why it would take several DAYS to issue a new permit.

Because the city workers are on strike and all the work is being done by just a few managers?

 

[x-grunt]

As disrespectful as this is at first blush, there could have been an unintended hidden benefit.

People tend to walk by our monuments without a second glance. There's one outside my office and no one pays it any attention at all. I mentioned this to a coworker of several years, who said he'd never noticed it until then.

In this case, as folks line up at the cart, they have time to look and see the 48th's monument, and hopefully reflect on the sacrifices made by the lads.

As they say, "There is no such thing as bad publicity"

 

[mariomike]

They'll be setting up kebab wagons in front of churches if they allow this. The Old Comrades must be rolling over in their graves. As for sanitation, where do customers, and servers, wash their hands?

 

[Loachman]

What if the Regimental Association gets him to sell 48th merchandise as well as his kebabs?

 

[George Wallace]

Perhaps open up a stand to sell haggis.

 

[mariomike]

After seeing what the city did with their club ( see photo below ) I can understand why they are protective of their monument.
That photo is no joke. It's the old 48th club on Church St. I remember it.

 

[the 48th regulator]

After seeing what the city did with their club ( see photo below ) I can understand why they are protective of their monument.
That photo is no joke. It's the old 48th club on Church St. I remember it.

However,


We were the fools for selling it.  We ended up leasing a building which became a White Elephant, so we left.  The museum was moved to St. Andrews, which was actually done well.  The OCA (Old Comrades Association) was offered space within the Sgt's and WO mess, however, the member can not enjoy what they had in the other buldings, on a regular basis.

Alas, it is not the same for the OCA without their own building.

dileas

tess

 

[jeffb]

After seeing what the city did with their club ( see photo below ) I can understand why they are protective of their monument.
That photo is no joke. It's the old 48th club on Church St. I remember it.

It's currently the 519 community center in the heart of the (gay) village so the pride flag isn't really out of place. It's very important to the community there.