April 2008
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This Sounds Familiar...
So in today’s paper, our dear Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty (whom I have never hidden my distaste for) has stated that he will not hesitate to cut programs should the country’s budget fall into deficit as a result of the softening economy. He will not consider increasing taxes or reversing his illogical GST cuts over the past two years. (Link to story in The Star) How come...
Apr 10th
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Museum Station's New Clothes
So $5-million later, this is what we get. The first in “Station Renaissance” projects, Museum Station has been turned into a display case of various ‘artifacts’ from our history. The idea is good, but I have never been a big fan of any changes to the original TTC subway architecture, particularly the tiles of the Bloor-Danforth Subway. Museum Station was even more...
Apr 9th
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"They can get the information off the Internet!"
Image from CityNews.ca In a Toronto Sun article (link) today, Rob Ford is on another tirade against the TTC and its Commissioners for planning to travel to Edmonton, San Francisco, or Austin for annual CUTA (Canadian Urban Transit Association) and APTA (American Public Transit Association) conferences and trade shows. He is questioning the rationale of spending the money to send our...
Apr 8th