Whenever I'm short of a column idea I just think about the City of Toronto.

Every time I'm looking for an idea for a column I just think of the dysfunctional mess that the City of Toronto is and almost immediately I come up with something I can make fun of.

These couple weeks have been a bonanza for me. There's a garbage worker's strike ongoing in the city. Plus, the City of Toronto managed to be the only municipality in the country that messed up its application for federal infrastructure funds.

In Toronto there is always something to make fun of.

Take the city's one-week old garbage strike.

City garbage collectors were on strike for only a few hours and garbage was piling up all over the city. After a few hours! How is it possible that Toronto residents couldn't last just a couple days into a city garbage strike before they had to start dumping in parks under the cover of darkness?

Do they produce that much garbage? Or are they just a bunch of whiners that have had a toy taken away from them and they're trying to make a point? Or did they just lose their minds?

I admit, I'm no waste management expert. However, if Meaford was ever hit with a garbage workers strike - I'm pretty sure I would be able to last a week, maybe two before I started looking around and wondering where I was going to get rid of all this junk.

People in Toronto couldn't even last a few hours! The news was filled with video of cars lining up at transfer stations and angry drivers waiting to be let through by striking workers.

Then there is good old David Miller - Mayor of Toronto. Mr. Miller is always worth a couple laughs - even on a slow news day.

These days Mr. Miller is scrambling around trying to convince the federal government to give him hundreds of millions of dollars under the federal infrastructure program to build new streetcars. The problem? The federal government told Mr. Miller that the streetcar project isn't eligible for funding under the infrastructure program - which is meant to stimulate the local economy (Toronto's street cars are going to be built in Thunder Bay - hardly a close neighbour of the Mega-City).

Every other municipality in the country submitted a proper application to the federal government for infrastructure funding, why couldn't Toronto? I support the federal government on this one. If Toronto can't get its application right - its money should be dispersed to the rest of the country. I'm sure the rest of us could use the extra funds.