Opinion

Touby: Dalton McHarris & the Harmful Sales Tax

By Frank Touby –  Do you get the feeling they really don’t give a damn about you? Does it seem to you that the labels Left and Right no longer fit the suits who wear them? You’re not hallucinating. There is ...

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The Great White Hype’s long farewell

The predictable but long-dragged-out finish to a disappointing term of office has been announced and we won’t have David Miller to complain about—in a year. There was so much hope when he stood with his broom in surprising victory at ...

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Porter belongs at Pearson Airport

There’s no question the Island airport has long been an anachronism in its current incarnation as an elegant monopoly by a single taxpayer-supported passenger service. Toronto has endured the blight of increased commercial air traffic amidst a residential- and tourism-oriented ...

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Comstock: The Gardiner should toll for thee

By Michael Comstock –  The summer break is over and it is back to the grind. Back to school and back from vacation. Yes, years of the behavioural training based on the school board’s calendar, has set all of us up. ...

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Sewell: Cops won’t investigate fellow cops’ misdeeds

By John Sewell –  A new police complaints mechanism will finally be available in Ontario in the next few months. It’s been a long time coming. When he was premier, Mike Harris scrapped the independent complaints mechanism instituted in the early ...

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Touby: Our poll may show most would fire their city councillors

By Frank Touby – If Downtown were a city of its own—not a bad idea, by the way—there might be an overthrow of the government in the works. At least that’s what The Bulletin’s online poll at www.thebulletin.ca would indicate. (The ...

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Viewpoint: Communities are the new frontier

By Max Moore –  I believe nations are failing us, and that communities are the solution to our problems. When people ask if I’m a Communist, I say, no I’m a Communityist. There’s a big difference between a Communist and a ...

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Viewpoint: HST will have real impact on condo owners

Special to The Bulletin By Rosario Marchese –  When Linda Pinizzotto steps out of her office to show condos to potential buyers, she knows there’s a storm looming on the horizon for her clients. “The HST will have a huge negative ...

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Sewell: Cops in schools; tasers; cop brawl; union boss

In this issue: 1. Police in Toronto schools 2. Braidwood Inquiry on tasers 3. Silence on police brawl 4. New head of Police Association 5. Complaints office to open 6. Police compensation By John Sewell – This Police Accountability Bulletin is ...

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Prince of Pot Rally

“My husband is a Canadian citizen who never crossed the border, yet he has been charged and punished in a foreign country. This should be very disturbing to Canadians. Marc is a political prisoner. He shouldn’t be sent to the ...

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