Condoleezza Rice Addresses The Issue Of Race In America
“Black Americans were a founding population,” she said. “Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together — Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That’s not a very pretty reality of our founding.” As a result, Miss Rice told editors and...
Ubuntu + Sun = Very good idea
I had dinner with a good friend tonight from the open-source world, and we ended up having the same conversation I had with a few other friends from the open-source business community at lunch yesterday. The conversation began with Sun and ended with Ubuntu. In...
Microsoft: June 30 Windows XP cut-off set in stone
Microsoft made it official on April 3: There will be no new reprieves for Windows XP (other than on Ultra Low-Cost PCs). Some customers and partners had been hoping the company might extend again the deadline for all PC makers to be allowed to preload Windows XP,...
Tories stand by MP who made homophobic remarks
Tom Lukiwski rocks back and forth in the camera frame while pontificating about the differences between alpha and beta males.The camera operator fiddles with the zoom a bit to frame up the future Member of Parliament's face. Lukiwski looks for the red light to make...
Senator Kennedy endorsement of Obama – Time for change!
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Toronto Queen streetcar named among world’s best
National Geographic includes the TTC's Queen streetcar, the 501, one of the top 10 trolley routes in the world. It's a crowded ride, but oh, what a view. The 501 has become emblematic of the stretched service on the TTC. But finally there's a glint of good news for...
Macworld 2008: Steve Jobs keynote speech leaked? True or Fake?
Steve Jobs' keynote speech, that he is due to make on stage at the Moscone Centre in San Francicso on Tuesday 15th January, has apparently been leaked via Wikipedia. With highlights including a 16GB iPhone, details of the SDK for the device, a 13-inch 0.8-inch thick...
Everex debuts $399 ultramobile PC
At CES, Everex is launching a $399 ultramobile that will be sold through Walmart.com starting January 25. The low-cost Everex CloudBook uses the open source gOS V2 Rocket operating system and VIA 1.2GHz C7-M ULV processor, same as the $199 Everex gPC. The Cloudbook is...
First look at Geubuntu 7.10
Geubuntu 7.10 was released last Thursday and a couple of people asked me to take a look at it. As the distribution's logo hints, it's an Ubuntu derivative that uses Enlightenment E17 for the desktop environment. This release was the first I had heard of this...
Inside Windows 7 — what we know so far!
An interesting little bit of speculation... You’d be forgiven for missing it, but Vista turned a year old last month. November 30, 2006, marked the official launch of Vista to the business community: the first part of an odd two-stage liftoff which was followed two...
Ont. to provide $100M for GO Transit improvements
The Ontario government will announce $100 million in immediate improvements to GO Transit in its fall financial update on Thursday, CTV News has learned. Sources say the funding plan includes: * $60 million for 20 new bi-level passenger coaches to increase capacity on...
Are you looking for transit related information?
Are you looking for transit related information? Have you had enough of the political promises? Look no further than the links below. From opinion on GO Transit expansion to the TTC spending and more, check out these links below for excellent commentary on transit...
Tiny Cloudbook runs Google-oriented Linux
The Asus EEE has competition. FIC/Everex has confirmed plans to ship a UMPC (ultra-mobile PC) with a 7-inch screen in January. The "Cloudbook" will ship with the Google Apps-oriented "gOS" Linux distribution, in standard and "Developer" editions. According to our...
Father of slain muslim teen charged with murder
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - A 57-year-old man from Mississauga, Ont., has been charged with murder after his 16-year-old daughter died overnight. Aqsa Parvez was rushed to hospital Monday morning in critical condition after a man made a 911 call in which he allegedly said he...
Cloverfield Marketing gets weirder – What is Slusho?
"Don't get me wrong...this Cloverfield marketing is a little too odd. Bunch of kids running around Manhattan, trying to escape from a monster? Okay, I get that. This whole Slusho thing? No idea!" read more | digg story...
Is replacing John Tory and going neo-consertive a bad move in Ontario? Yes!
As I have mentioned before if the PC’s decide to go the "neo-conservative" route, and it plays out in the public eye as an “internal turf” of their leader, it maybe many years before they ever hold the seat of power in Ontario again. Insiders have also said that the...
Lack of transit link between airport and downtown Toronto embarrassing
It's an embarrassment that Canada's busiest airport still isn't linked to Toronto's downtown core by public transit and getting it done should be a priority, federal Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon said Friday. In a speech to the Toronto Board of Trade, Cannon...
Barrie South GO Station opens December 17
The Barrie South GO Station opening December 17, 2007. It is located on the Bradford line, northeast of the intersection of Mapleview Dr. and Yonge St. and will be accessible to passengers using wheeled mobility aids. The extension of service from Bradford to Barrie...
The Mississauga BRT
The Mississauga Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project is a high-efficiency transit corridor running east-west across Mississauga. The BRT will support all-station stop and extensive express bus service for thousands of riders per day, making it faster and easier for you to...
Metrolinx is the new name for the GTTA
The GTTA (Greater Toronto Transportation Authority) has finally released a new name: Metrolinx. I first read about that in the news today and the reason that the officials want to change that because the GTTA name would confuse the GTAA - the Greater Toronto Airports...
Bombardier Awarded Fleet Operations Contract With GO Transit In Toronto
Bombardier Transportation announced today it has received a contract to supply fleet operations services for the Greater Toronto Transit Authority (GO Transit) commuter rail system serving the city of Toronto and surrounding regions. read more | digg story
Ontario to go trans fat free
New legislation will be introduced today to end to trans fat and junk foods in school cafeterias and vending machines. "Our kids' health is just too important to risk," said Premier Dalton McGuinty. "Trans fats have no place in our schools and we've got to act now."...
The Subway Now group of York Region and the VIVA BRT
In an effort to be entirely impartial, posting the opinions of others, I’ve decided to list a link to the “Subway Now” group. Although I understand what they are attempting to do I still wonder who is going to really end up paying for the extension of the subway to...
Immigrants choose to settle in Canada’s largest cities
Immigrants are still choosing to start their lives in Canada in one of the "big three" -Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver - but there are signs of changing times. Among all the census metropolitan areas, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver again attracted most of Canada's...
New 2008 Mandriva Flash 4GB released
A new, Mandriva Linux 2008-based version of the Mandriva Flash bootable USB key was released. Flash boots a complete Mandriva desktop on almost any PC, letting you take your desktop with your own data anywhere. The new version can also run Windows versions of Firefox...
Apple Leopard OSX: Perfecting Perfection
Infoworld gives OS 10.5 a glowing review. No one is unhappy with Mac OS X Version 10.4, known as Tiger. OS X is not an application platform (I bristle at using the term "operating system" for OS X; I explain why below) that needed repair, speeding up, or exterior...
Digging up a Queen Street ghost story in Toronto
Streetcar platform dug in 1950s and never used sits behind a door, a buried relic of an old transit vision. To the thousands of patrons passing through the Queen subway station, it's just another anonymous TTC maintenance door. But there are no mops and pails behind...
AmigaOS 4.0 for Classic Amiga available!
ACube Systems Srl is pleased to to announce the immediate availability of the awaited AmigaOS 4.0 for Amiga 1200, 3000(T) or 4000(T) with a PowerPC CPU, developed by Hyperion Entertainment VOF. It is now possible to benefit of all the features of this new AmigaOS...
Is Toronto wasting money?
The past few years have definitely been interesting for the city of Toronto. Various groups have indicated that Toronto is full of waste and inefficiencies. On the other hand, the Federal government is awash with cash. There is definitely a problem with money on all...
Sheppard: TTC subway to nowhere? Then finish it!
"Construction booms, but opinions remain sharply divided as the often-derided Sheppard line turns 5. The futuristic chrome plating in Sheppard-Yonge station already looks a little scuffed. But it was only five years ago – Nov. 22, 2002 – that then-mayor Mel Lastman...