Chris Mosie – With the first of three elections over on June 13, Kathleen Wynne and the Ontario Liberal Party were given a majority mandate. The Liberals as the incumbent party were chased in the election by Tim Hudak and ...
Read More »Port Authority greatest threat to Waterfront: Vaughan
Robin Careless – There was a good deal of excitement for the future at the meeting of the Bathurst Quay Neighborhood Association (BQNA) on June 19. The first speaker was James Roche, the director of parks, design and construction for Waterfront ...
Read More »Child safety is vital, but don’t discourage volunteers
Chris Moise – Although I rely heavily on social media to stay connected with what’s happening locally and internationally, I still watch and listen to CBC News periodically throughout the day to stay in the know. If I were to ...
Read More »Waterfront Toronto investment pays off handsomely
Stig Harvor – Financing of more needed Waterfront Toronto (WT) work has reached a critical juncture. In less than two more years WT will run out of money. It will be unable to continue its impressive revitalization of our former ...
Read More »It was Mike Harris who beat the pants off Tim Hudak
Scandals and sellouts aside, voters went for hopeful promises of lesser devils than the ones they have experienced at the hands of Dalton McGuinty. The voter demolition of both Andrea Horwath’s NDP and Tim Hudak’s Tory regimes at the polls ...
Read More »City allows windowless apartment units to be built
John Sewell – The best place to do something bone-headed and stupid is in a very public place so members of the public think it must be right given it is so visible. And if you do it over and over ...
Read More »Toronto schools stand to benefit from Wynne’s win
Chris Moise – With the first of three elections over on June 13th, Kathleen Wynne and the Ontario Liberal Party were given a majority mandate. The Liberals as the incumbent party were chased in the election by Tim Hudak and his ...
Read More »Hudak rightly lost but so, too, did democracy
Stig Harvor – What if anything, can we glean from the unprecedented amount of political activity in our province and city squeezed into just this one year, 2012? Ontario with Toronto is experiencing noteworthy political change. Of special interest is ...
Read More »Our nation’s wealth is taken by corporate oligarchs
Stig Harvor — It has been difficult, if not impossible, to rise above the partisan noise of our 5-week Ontario election ending on June 12. There is an incessant noise about provincial debt, balanced budgets, taxes, killing jobs to create ...
Read More »Taxpayers lost as Ford boys used position for personal gain
What do you think, poor Toronto taxpayer? Enough of the crooked Ford boys! It’s overdue that the outrageous pair be removed from city hall and an array of ethical breaches on behalf of their family corporation, Deco Labels, should drive ...
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