by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 4, 2007 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Politics, Public Transit, Toronto
Miller faced a significant setback to his leadership when the city council voted to delay a resolution on the land transfer tax and the completion of a vehicle registration levy. In an ironic twist, I predict that the city council will have no choice but to support...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 3, 2007 | GTA Politics
Ontario NDP leader Howard Hampton pushed across Toronto on Monday, staging a string of events in the city that has become his party’s stronghold. “This election is about fairness for cities like Toronto,” Hampton told a crowd at an uptown coffee shop during his second...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 3, 2007 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics
The Green Party of Ontario is proposing an innovative solution to poverty: using budget surpluses to help economically vulnerable families buy their own homes. “Paying rent keeps people poor,”. The Green Party doesn’t just want to make sure our...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 2, 2007 | GTA Issues, GTA Politics
“Propaganda is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people. Instead of impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience”. I’ve spent...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 2, 2007 | GTA Politics
Auditor general found no written request from Iranian-Canadian Community Centre of Toronto. Sometimes money just falls into your lap. The group, founded in August 2005 and mistakenly listed as an animal welfare charity at one point, got a $200,000 grant from...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 1, 2007 | GTA Education, GTA Politics
TORONTO – Although Premier Dalton McGuinty has repeatedly stated his opposition to supporting non-Catholic faith-based schools, his education ministry must feel differently, as it recently came to light that Eden High, described as an “alternative Christian high...