Oh, garbage.

As you may have heard, Toronto is experiencing a city workers' strike right now. This means no garbage pickup. Whee.

According to our officiant, the city is doing a good job of keeping the downtown area clean (right where we will be getting married), but as they are now passing the two week mark, I'm sure things will get worse.

I have read several articles about this and it sounds like some of the popular shopping/touristy destinations are suffering some garbage pileup (the Distillery district, Queen Street West, etc.) Businesses are open, but if the strike continues, we will not be seeing Toronto at its finest.

The strike story apparently "tops of the list of travel warnings" this week, but I think the most important part of that article comes at the end: "Going to Toronto? There's a garbage strike, so you might see signs of uncollected garbage, a smell in the air in certain neighbourhoods. Not a big deal, just a simple awareness.''

In the Lemons-into-lemonade category: if you haven't yet booked a hotel (or you are not locked into your rate), this may be a good opportunity to get a deal.

In addition to the garbage pickup issue, parks and recreation services are currently suspended, as well as ferry service. So if your vacation included those things, it may be time to reconsider your plans.

They're supposed to be negotiating again tomorrow (Wednesday), so fingers crossed this will all be behind us in 11 days!