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Library workers are on strike in Toronto

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Mar 19, 2012 | Toronto, Unions

For those who do not already know, library workers are on strike in Toronto. The city and union reps could not see eye-to-eye in time to avert the strike.All library locations are closed today as some 2300 hundred workers now setup pickets. The city is telling...

Toronto police stop and document black and brown people

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Mar 16, 2012 | Immigration, Multiculturalism, Ontario, Politics, Racism, Students, Toronto

An interesting article from the Toronto Star. It would be interesting to know how widespread this is. It’s unfortunate to commonly hear the line “well if you have nothing to hide, why does it matter”. It matters because you have the rights, however...

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...

Running out of cards to play. What will Mayor Rob Ford do?

by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Mar 16, 2012 | News, Politics, Public Transit, Toronto, TTC

Seems that Rob Ford is stuck “between a rock and a hard place”. With the provincial government planning major cuts where does Mayor Ford get support for subways from? Today the recommendation will be for a LRT option, on Sheppard Avenue; putting the nail...

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...
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The Eglinton Crosstown and Mayor Olivia Chow

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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