by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 10, 2008 | Alberta, Canada, Climate Change, Economy, Election, Environmental Issues, GTA Education, GTA Environment, GTA Healthcare, GTA Issues, GTA News, GTA Politics, health, Immigration, Markham, Multiculturalism, News, Oil, Ontario, Politics, Quebec, Toronto, World
You can’t do your job as Leader of the Opposition. I don’t know what you’re doing running for Prime Minister. It’s a very unusual political situation when every voter knows even before the federal election that Canada’s next prime...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Sep 24, 2008 | College, GTA Issues, GTA News, Markham, Newmarket, News, Ontario, Public Transit, Richmond Hill, Students, Toronto, Unions, University, Vaughan, Viva, YRT
680News staff | Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 7:42 pm Thirty-five-thousand commuters in York Region will have to find another way to work or school come Thursday morning. That’s because Viva bus drivers will go on strike starting at 4 a.m. Union members...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Sep 15, 2008 | Canada, GTA Issues, GTA News, News, Ontario, Toronto, World
This is why the laws must be changed. A life has been snubbed out because of a possible drunk driver. I am not sure how one can justify going in the wrong direction on a provincial highway? The way the laws stand he will probably get a “slap on the wrist”,...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Aug 13, 2008 | GTA Development, GTA Issues, GTA News, News, Ontario, Toronto
From CFRB Toronto: With the safety of propane filling sites near residential areas under question following Sunday’s explosions and fire in Downsview, a report has come out that indicates 337 sites exist in the GTA where there are propane filling tanks. Read...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Aug 10, 2008 | Canada, Emergencies, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, GTA News, News, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto, World
A series of explosions at a propane facility early Sunday forced police to evacuate a residential area in the city’s northwest. “It was just a tremendous explosion and blew all the windows out of the house, just blew the house up, and I just managed to get...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Jul 15, 2008 | Canada, GTA Issues, GTA News, News, Oil, Ontario, Toronto
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Corp. said Tuesday it will lay off salaried workers, cut truck production, suspend its dividend and borrow $2 billion to $3 billion to weather a severe downturn in the U.S. market. GM said the moves will raise $15 billion to help cover...