Opinion

Torontonians were hung out to dry

There was only one loser in this whole civic strike mess. It’s you. The plural you. The citizen you. Most councillors took a summer holiday, effectively being on strike themselves. Against you. Those who vacationed avoided the unpleasantries of civil ...

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Frank Touby: Veggies breathe CO2—should they pay the carbon tax?

By Frank Touby – I’m trying to get my head around this global warming/climate change thing and the carbon tax that hapless professor Stéphane Dion was trying to flog in his quixotic tumble to political obsolescence that keeps Stephen Harper ...

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Michael Comstock: Strike proves overstaffed city should trim down

By Michael Comstock – The Bulletin is Toronto’s only Downtown community paper and it seems to thrive against a generally stagnated number of daily newspaper readers. Torontonians can get their news from a variety of media which is one reason ...

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John Sewell: Relax, we’re almost as safe as Guelph

By John Sewell – Police Chief Bill Blair has announced that crime in Toronto is down, which is obviously a good thing. Now comes the big question—what does it mean? Chief Blair says that for the first six months in ...

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Viewpoint: Noise management at the Island airport is a waiting game

By Joan Prowse – Saturday morning. 8 a.m. I wake up to an airplane revving its engines not once, not twice but three times before taking off. Sunday night, I’m drifting off to sleep as a plane lands and guns ...

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McGuinty asked to reward insurance firms at your expense

Insurance group seeks to slash auto insurance benefits which would then fall on the public health system to compensate By John Kumpf –  The current provincial government prides itself on being a champion of the disabled. It points to its ...

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Sellout of Canada in the works?

‘Secret’ North American Union talks to begin By Council of Canadians – ACTION ALERT: Demand a say in North America’s future   The next North American leaders summit – where Canada, the United States and Mexico have met to discuss progress ...

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Salute to a brave and modest nation

A British news paper salutes Canada By Kevin Myers, The Sunday Telegraph – And as always, Canada will bury its dead, just as the rest of the world, as always will forget its sacrifice, just as it always forgets nearly ...

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City workers don’t deserve to strike

‘You haul garbage two, three years, tops. Tops! Then you start taking civil service tests and get into management. In five years, you’re driving to work in a limousine. In 20 years, you retire at half pay and spend the ...

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Cops brawl; Grits & Tories vote to overfill prisons

Toronto Police Accountability Coalition report By John Sewell – 1. A fine police brawl It has become a Toronto police tradition to hold a fight night—Fitenite—every spring to raise money for charity.  The event consists of about 10 boxing matches ...

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