City of Toronto

Since couple weeks we can see the montreal fire trucks speeding down the street emblazoned with “City of Toronto” insignia. At first I thought the city of Montreal borrowed some trucks from the city of Toronto, since there are more fire during winter here in Quebec, or simply that some guys from the Toronto FD were here on an exchange.
Montreal’s fire fighters have been feeling slighted by the city recently; they have been without a contract for over a year and have received no pay increases unlike their counterparts in Toronto who are seeing increases of almost 10% and already receive larger paycheques than fire fighters in Montreal. Our fire fighters have taken notice and have launched a series of pressure tactics which they hope will embarrass the city into hearing their demands. They’ve used what the Toronto Star calls a “Fightin’ Word” as part of their pressure tactics. The word? The dreaded “Toronto”. Local fire fighters have set aside past tactics of punching holes in fire hoses, tampering with station doors, and locking managers in their offices. This time around, fire trucks have “City of Toronto” banners on the front bumpers and on the ladders, their is also a sticker of each door and on the back of the truck. You can see this sticker left the the truck number "425". Fire fighters are wearing shirts that say “Toronto FD”, and they have even created a new logo reminiscent of the Toronto logo with the Mountain and Olympic Stadium replacing the CN Tower and Toronto skyline (the Toronto crest is copywrited so could not have been used in its original form).
The city, of course, is less than pleased. They have issued bills to the union for the cleanup of the decals and repainting if necessary. The union and the city are still negotiating but little has come from the talks. The city is vowing to hold the line saying it doesn’t have the money to increase pay and that comparing salaries of fire fighters in Montreal to those in Toronto doesn’t make sense as the cost of living in Montreal is so much lower than in Toronto. Fire fighters have little at their disposal to try to force their demands as they are considered an essential service, and are therefore barred from striking.