by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 29, 2007 | GTA Politics, Toronto
Fed up with fellow councillors who fulminate about their pay and perks (Michael Walker, Rob Ford, come on down), Councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby made them an offer last week. In her speech on the mayor’s tax plan (she voted with the majority to approve it), Ms....
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 29, 2007 | GTA Development, GTA Issues, Technology
I am a fan of the Toronto Island Airport. I like the idea of flying out of the downtown Toronto area, using a convenient connection to places like Ottawa, Montreal and points beyond. I also like the Porter Airline concept, along with the use of Canadian technology in...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 28, 2007 | GTA Development, GTA Issues, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto
Transit advocates at Toronto City Hall passionately oppose any suggestion that Queen’s Park might snatch the TTC from municipal hands and put it under a region-wide transportation authority. “I would fight that tooth and nail,” Mayor David Miller...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 27, 2007 | Canada, GTA Culture, GTA Education, GTA Politics, Ontario, Toronto
“Everything is proceeding as Dalton McGuinty had foreseen”. John Tory was supposed to lead Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives to certain victory over the “supposed” dark side; however he led them instead to a resounding defeat. Emperor Dalton McGuinty...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 24, 2007 | GTA Culture, GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto
The Toronto Star, CityTV (Breakfast Television) and other media outlets are reporting that the TTC maybe “high-jacked” by the Liberal Government of Ontario, which may have been secretly planned all along. Rumors are flying high that the TTC may be taken over by the...