by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | May 21, 2008 | Canada, GTA Politics, Ontario, Toronto
Premier Dalton McGuinty insists he is not rattled by apparent dissension in his Liberal ranks. In a move that even loyalists now concede was ill-advised, McGuinty ordered all staff members to leave the Liberal caucus room on May 13 then criticized MPPs for speaking...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | May 20, 2008 | Airlines, Airports, GTA Issues, Ontario, Toronto
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has taken a big bite out of Porter Airlines’ Big Apple ambitions. The regulator ruled the Toronto-based upstart airline must trim its daily schedule of 14 flights between Hogtown and Newark, N.J. by four in order to...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | May 18, 2008 | GTA Development, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto
“TTC chairman Adam Giambrone says a new subway line cutting through the bottom of the city is a “good idea,” one the TTC will start looking at seriously by 2018. The Downtown Rapid Transit project, or Downtown Relief Line (DRL), would relieve congestion at the...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | May 15, 2008 | Canada, Ontario, Technology, Toronto
And you didn’t like Comcast’s TCP resets. Something far more egregious is going on in Canada, where Bell Canada has been engaged in deep-packet inspection of traffic. Bell is using DPI to find and limit the use of peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent, which it...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | May 7, 2008 | Canada, GTA Culture, GTA Issues, Ontario, Toronto, World
Jessica Devnani was excited about the prospect of starting her first summer job at Canada’s Wonderland, but in the end, she found no amusement in the park’s request that she cut her dreadlocks, or find work elsewhere. “I went in for my interview and...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Apr 27, 2008 | GTA Issues, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto
Ontario’s legislature has ordered Toronto’s 9,000 transit workers to end their suprise strike that idled the country’s largest fleet of subways, streetcars and buses. All parties supported the bill, introduced personally by Premier Dalton McGuinty,...