Toronto city councillors are set to decide the fate of a contractor that intentionally overbilled the city more than $1 million, a breach of the supplier code of conduct uncovered by a forensic audit conducted for the city. Staff are recommending Capital Sewer Services Inc. face the maximum suspension Toronto can issue against suppliers that break the city's rules: a five-year contracting ban on it and all its affiliated companies.
The Adams administration's much-delayed changes to the way commercial trash is collected aims to rein in the chaotic carting industry by reducing reckless driving and cutting truck mileage. But Lander's office raised serious qualms about how Mayor Adams has overseen the process. "By awarding contracts to bad actors with terrible safety records, the Department of Sanitation is undermining the goals of the program," Lander said in a statement. "The city must ... be willing to hold bad carters to higher standards to ensure this law actually improves the conditions for workers and our environment."