by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 4, 2007 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics
At a recent all candidates meeting an incumbent MPP, during their speech, said “this is a two party race and it is pointless to vote for any other party….we do not want another Mike Harris government”. When approached and told that this is not becoming of an MPP and...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 4, 2007 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Politics, Public Transit, Toronto
Miller faced a significant setback to his leadership when the city council voted to delay a resolution on the land transfer tax and the completion of a vehicle registration levy. In an ironic twist, I predict that the city council will have no choice but to support...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 3, 2007 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics
The Green Party of Ontario is proposing an innovative solution to poverty: using budget surpluses to help economically vulnerable families buy their own homes. “Paying rent keeps people poor,”. The Green Party doesn’t just want to make sure our...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 2, 2007 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics
“Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people. Instead of impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience”. I’ve spent...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 1, 2007 | GTA Education, GTA Issues, GTA Politics
A public school in St. Catharines that for two decades has offered chapel services and Bible classes for its Mennonite students proves Dalton McGuinty’s arguments against funding religious schools are “nonsense,” according to the Progressive...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 1, 2007 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics
Ontario PC Leader John Tory committed that a Progressive Conservative Government will invest to improve the living conditions for low-income families who reside in social housing throughout Ontario. “As the former volunteer chair of the United Way in Toronto, I have...