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Game over for Rob Ford in Toronto?

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Mar 22, 2012 | Canada, News, Public Transit, Toronto

It seems that the transit debate is over. With a vote of 24 – 19, Rob Ford lost his battle to get the Sheppard Subway built and completed. Torontonians’ have endured a long battle over transit, with Rob Ford championing the cause of subways for the...

Astral Media has just been bought by Bell for over 3 billion dollars

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Mar 16, 2012 | Canada, Info, News, Ontario, Toronto

News has just broken that Bell has bought outright the entire assets of Astral media. This means that the popular News Talk 1010 is now owned by Bell. Definitely showing that convergence is not dead in Canada. It will be interesting to see how this will play out in...

The Game of Thrones and Transit in Toronto

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Mar 9, 2012 | Canada, GTA Politics, News, Ontario, Politics, Public Transit, Toronto

LRT or Subways? This has been the ongoing debate, unfortunately the lines between truth are certainly grey. Let’s start with the Eglinton Cross-town, which definitely the current hot potato. Rob Ford has continued to use the word “subways”, which...

Let the war for Toronto begin!

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Feb 21, 2012 | Canada, GTA News, GTA Politics, LRT, Public Transit, Toronto, TTC

Well let the war begin in the city of Toronto. In an apparent move to remove all opposition to Mayor Rob Ford’s subway plans a special Toronto Transit Commission meeting called with only one item on the agenda. A vote to remove Gary Webster’s from the...

Strike! Lots of confusion in York Region (YRT and VIVA)

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 24, 2011 | Canada, Markham, Newmarket, Ontario, Public Transit, Richmond Hill, Toronto, Unions, Vaughan, Viva, YRT

There seems to be a lot of confusion over what is running and what is not in York Region. Details from the YRT/VIVA site are listed below, however there is much confusion over exactly which routes are not in operation. Some TTC routes, that go into Markham are still...

Canadian Aviation and Space Museum, no more…

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Sep 21, 2011 | Canada, Election, GTA History, GTA Issues, GTA News, Oshawa, Politics, Sci-Fi, Science, Technology, Toronto, USA

TORONTO – Second World War pilot Philip Gray says it is “immoral” that Downsview Park is evicting the Canadian Air and Space Museum. “This is a terrible way to repay young 21-year-old boys who went to war and never turned 22. I am disgusted that their heritage...
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Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said she’s “speechless” about the continued delayed of the Eglinton Crosstown, saying she’s no more knowledgeable on the project than residents and business owners who’ve been waiting years for it to wrap up.

“I don’t know what to say anymore, it’s leaving me speechless,”  said Chow.

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