Posted on April 27, 2008 by thegtapatriot
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, who called a rare Sunday session of the legislature to pass the back-to-work legislation.
As a result, subway trains, streetcars and [...]
Filed under: GTA Issues, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto | Tagged: back to work, Dalton McGuinty, McGuinty, strike, subways, Toronto, transit workers, TTC | No Comments »
Posted on April 26, 2008 by thegtapatriot
A midnight strike by the TTC caught many people off guard, some showing up early this morning expecting a train, bus or streetcar only to find the lines abandoned. Last night, clubgoers poured out of bars when news of the strike spread.
“No way, no way,” Jorge Bayona, out with friends at Yonge-Dundas Square, said at [...]
Filed under: GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto | Tagged: April 2008, city, Contract Jobs, David Miller, Downtown, Employees, Liberals, Mississauga, Negotiations, Public Transit, Streetcars, strike, Toronto, TTC, Union, Viva, YRT | No Comments »
Posted on April 4, 2008 by thegtapatriot
“Black Americans were a founding population,” she said. “Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together — Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That’s not a very pretty reality of our founding.” As a result, Miss Rice told editors and reporters at The Washington Times, “descendants of slaves did not get much [...]
Filed under: World | Tagged: Africans, black, Black Americans, Condoleezza Rice, discrimination, Europeans, Miss Rice, Race, racism | No Comments »
Posted on April 4, 2008 by thegtapatriot
I had dinner with a good friend tonight from the open-source world, and we ended up having the same conversation I had with a few other friends from the open-source business community at lunch yesterday. The conversation began with Sun and ended with Ubuntu. In between, the two came together.
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Filed under: Linux, Solaris, Technology, Ubuntu | Tagged: Java, Linux, Open Source, Sun, Sun Microsystems, Ubuntu | No Comments »
Posted on April 4, 2008 by thegtapatriot
Microsoft made it official on April 3: There will be no new reprieves for Windows XP (other than on Ultra Low-Cost PCs).
Some customers and partners had been hoping the company might extend again the deadline for all PC makers to be allowed to preload Windows XP, rather than Windows Vista, on new PCs. But today, [...]
Filed under: Microsoft | Tagged: ASUS, EeePC, Intel Classmate, June 30, Microsoft, Origami, ULPC, Ultra Low-Cost, UMPC, UMPCs, Vista, windows, Windows XP | No Comments »
Posted on April 4, 2008 by thegtapatriot
Tom Lukiwski rocks back and forth in the camera frame while pontificating about the differences between alpha and beta males.The camera operator fiddles with the zoom a bit to frame up the future Member of Parliament’s face. Lukiwski looks for the red light to make sure the tape is rolling.
The Saskatchewan NDP found the jaw-dropping [...]
Filed under: Canada, World | Tagged: canada, Conservative, Gay, homophobic, Liberal, MP, NDP, Parliament, Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan NDP, Tom Lukiwski | No Comments »
