( Rick Madonik / TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO )Little wonder Mayor John Tory and his silo-bound bureaucrats recently held a public meeting on the issue. Article Continued BelowYet because loud noise is such an ingrained feature of urban life, we tend not to take it seriously. The existence of the league reminds us that what people object to is loud noise. Loud noise, after all, is an invasion of privacy as well as form of pollution. As long as we conflate loud noise with social and economic vitality, city-dwellers will have no choice but to suffer in silence.

Source: thestar February 11, 2019 19:18 UTC