by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Apr 11, 2012 | Climate Change, Environmental Issues, Oil, World
No I am not trying to be overbearing on the environmental front, but more and more I see a trend towards the self in our world. Western society has enjoyed a life that it is unwilling to give up. We know that fossil fuels and our consumption based lifestyle are...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Apr 11, 2012 | Environmental Issues, GTA Culture, GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, Poetry
It’s a cookie cut life of mediocrity, welcome to the burb. It’s all the same, we love it and it’s nothing to absurd. Admit it, we were sucked into the dream; the dream of owning a piece of Canadian terra-firma and all that it means. You love the plastic playground and...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Mar 31, 2012 | Alberta, Calgary, Economy, Environmental Issues, GTA Environment, Oil, Vancouver
A slim majority of British Columbians support a proposed $5.5-billion oilsands pipeline to the B.C. coast, but opposition to the megaproject is growing, according to a new poll. The poll also found that an overwhelming majority of B.C. Conservative party supporters,...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | May 3, 2011 | Canada, Climate Change, Economy, Election, employment, Environmental Issues, GTA Culture, GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Healthcare, GTA History, GTA Issues, GTA News, GTA Politics, Immigration, Multiculturalism, News, Ontario, Oshawa, Politics, Quebec, Technology, USA, World
Well a historic election has just taken place in Canada. The Bloc was decimated in Quebec, and almost wiped off the map. Newfoundland told Conservatives what to do with themselves. The Greater Toronto Area is painted blue and Toronto has gone NDP Orange. Also, it...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Apr 30, 2010 | Canada, Climate Change, Economy, Emergencies, Environmental Issues, Food, health, News, Oil, USA, World
As we watch the effects of the inevitable oil spill transpire in the Gulf Coast we have to ask ourselves yet again, is it worth it? Any ocean oil extraction process using a drilling rig has a risk factor attached to it. This risk factor is not a question of...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Mar 29, 2010 | Environmental Issues, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, GTA News, Markham, Ontario, Public Transit, Richmond Hill, Toronto, Vaughan, Viva, World, YRT
Commuters in the Greater Toronto Area suffer through longer round trips than their counterparts in 18 other major centres, including notoriously congested Los Angeles, according to a new report commissioned by the Toronto Board of Trade. The board’s second...