by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 9, 2007 | GTA Environment, GTA Issues, Public Transit, Toronto
In reading the history of Toronto and the TTC, high investments were made in public transit, which helped the TTC become one of the top transit systems in North America. However during an episode of the Agenda with Steve Paikin, which airs on TVO, one of the panelists...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 8, 2007 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty conceded Friday there are problems with a government spending program that saw $200,000 shipped to a group headed by two senior Liberal party activists, including one candidate in the upcoming election. McGuinty said his government was...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 8, 2007 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics
If anybody was thankful this Thanksgiving, it was Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty, who went out campaigning Monday knowing that a new poll put him way ahead of his competition. Joining supporters in Mitchell, Ontario for Thanksgiving lunch, McGuinty said he’s not...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 8, 2007 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics, GTA Religion
The faith based funding issue should have been about simple human rights. The U.N has already indicated that the practice of funding only Catholic schools in Ontario is unjust. John Tory hoped to address this issue by fixing the problem and allowing fairness. Fund all...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 5, 2007 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics
(Toronto) – Progressive Conservative and New Democratic MPP’s joined forces today to call for a police investigation into a scandal involving $32 million in grants to multicultural groups by the McGuinty Liberal government. Bob Runciman (MPP Leeds-Grenville), a...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 5, 2007 | GTA Environment, GTA Issues
In an effort to become a green city, little thought is given to the two major nuclear plants, just outside of the Toronto area. I think we like to imagine that they are not there. Do the benefits really outweigh the cost? In regards to the greening of the planet...