Toronto is the last place in North America that should cut public transit service. Its highways and roads have been parking lots for years, and the planned public transit cuts that will take effect on Jan. 8, including to extremely busy routes during rush hour, will aggravate the city’s gridlock even further (already worse than even Los Angeles!).
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The world we live in …
Working hard on several assignments, I have not had much chance to write material for this space. But I think it’s time to drop a few lines about this and that.
The title of this column, The world we live in …, could easily become the title of a new blog (and probably already is somewhere out there), but it’s also an accurate reflection of my thoughts and feelings about events that have occurred since I got too busy to work on my column.
Genderless baby – unfit parents
Meet Kathy Witterick and David Stocker, parents to the “genderless baby” Storm. No, Storm is not some alien that they found in a cornfield, but just a normal child – for now.
Time for Toronto elite to point fingers at itself
It’s become a parlour game of sorts over recent years for the Toronto left-wing elite to criticize others over their environmental records. Alberta, especially, has been a target because of its oil sands (the proper term, as opposed to the biased “tar sands”).
Will Toronto go Conservative?
Canada’s newly-minted Environment Minister Peter Kent thinks that the Conservatives can ride the coattails of Toronto’s new mayor, Rob Ford, and “smash the Liberal walls” around the city. Ford, a right-winger, won the mayoral election in this left-wing bastion, very much to the surprise of everyone, including, most likely, Ford himself.
Time for a Tea Party in Toronto
The federal Tories must be rubbing their hands in wild anticipation: could it be that, at long last, the socialist/communist crowd that lives in Toronto has finally grown a few viable brain cells and seen the error of their ways? Do conservative voters finally have a chance to be heard in federal elections as well?
Toronto – how the mighty have fallen
Size doesn’t matter after all, as the example of Canada’s biggest city, Toronto, shows. Once known as “Toronto, the Good”, the city is now a shadow of its former self. While the US bemoans its sad state of the economy, Toronto is actually in much worse shape. Unemployment in the Greater Toronto Area is 9.2% and in the city itself, 10.3%. The ranks of welfare recipients are swelling, and there doesn’t seem to be an end to Toronto’s travails.
How is it possible that a major city with such great potential should have fallen so hard on its face?
Rob Ford: Toronto is full!
Rob Ford, who is running for mayor in Toronto, is in trouble. His opponents are calling him names and telling him to withdraw from the race. Why?
Here’s why:
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Senseless destruction of property is a crime, not democratic action
Freedom of speech is one of the key elements of democracy. All governments make mistakes sometimes, but before they correct themselves, it will often take the loud voices of the electorate to shame them into doing the right thing.
Street protests, marches or demonstrations are legitimate tools of voicing dissent. Destruction of public and private property, however, is not a means of democratic action, but a crime.
The pictures of the street riots and looting in Toronto following the G8 and G20 summits have been beamed all over the world, and going by the general tenor of foreign press reports, the world seems united in condemning the criminal actions of those thugs and vandals.
Unfortunately, it is always the same thing with international conferences and summits: radical lefties converge on the venue not to protest legitimately, but to indulge their criminal fantasies. Many young people – uneducated and often brain-damaged due to drug use – see it as a big “party” and decide to join in the “fun”. Why fun would equal being stupid and destructive is beyond the comprehension of healthy minds.
Looking at some of the pictures of the riots, we see what should be the next generation of Canadians, but instead we see hoodlums and thugs who take extremely great pleasure in destroying property, such as police cars – totally oblivious to the fact that their parents, too, paid for those police cars with their hard-earned money.
These images should make us very afraid for the future of this country, as it is a given that those vandalizing youths won’t be contributing much to future pension and other government funds.
G20/G8 summits in Toronto are a waste of money
[No] reasonable population should expect this kind of financial burden for two meetings over three days that is roughly the same as the one for playing host over a month to the Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
Jeffrey Simpson is right on the money. The G20/G8 summits are a colossal waste of money. And for what? So that Prime Minister Stephen Harper can have his moment in the sun?
Not only does this summit nonsense cost an arm and a leg (and every taxpayer’s first-born), but its organization has also been incompetent and flawed. Yesterday, for example, it was revealed that journalists wouldn’t have wi-fi access to file their stories. But they can sit in comfortable deck chairs, look out on the “fake lake” scenery and ponder life in its all complexity instead.