by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Jan 22, 2010 | Canada, Environmental Issues, GTA Development, GTA Issues, GTA News, LRT, News, Ontario, Politics, Public Transit, Toronto, Unions, Viva, YRT
Have we learned nothing from history and the reasons why there is a lack of good public transit options in the city of Toronto? What about jobs for the people of Thunder Bay? Again, with another knee-jerk reaction we may loose all we wanted in the city of Toronto and...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | May 28, 2009 | Canada, GTA Issues, GTA News, GTA Politics, health, News, Ontario, Politics, Technology
Ont. health agency scrutinized for contract tendering practices ‘Taxpayers are really getting ripped off’: PC leader An Ontario health agency has doled out nearly $5 million in contracts without any apparent attempt to open up the deals to outside bidders,...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 27, 2008 | Canada, Climate Change, Environmental Issues, health, News, Politics, Quebec, Science, World
Asbestos is a mineral with long, thin fibrous crystals. The word asbestos (῾ἀσβεστος) is derived from a Greek adjective meaning inextinguishable. The Greeks termed asbestos the miracle mineral because of its soft and pliant properties, as well as its ability to...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 22, 2008 | Canada, GTA Issues, GTA News, LRT, News, Ontario, Public Transit, Technology, Toronto, World
The possibility of converting the Scarborough RT to true LRT when its current fleet reaches the end of its life, instead of conversion to ICTS Mark-II, is still being considered by the TTC. In the supplementary agendafor the October 23 TTC meeting, the status update...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 20, 2008 | Canada, Election, GTA Politics, News, Toronto
Well the election is over and the knives are already out calling for a new leader. It is strange? I do not remember anyone forcing out McGuinty, Harris, Harper, shall I go on. They were given a chance and look at them now! Dion is a smart and a decent person. He does...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 18, 2008 | Canada, News
DAWSON CREEK, B.C. — As members of the RCMP’s national terrorism unit continued to gather evidence at the sites of two gas pipeline bombings in northeastern B.C. this weekend, other officers met with about 200 frightened citizens at a public gathering....