Posted on October 29, 2007 by thegtapatriot
I am a fan of the Toronto Island Airport. I like the idea of flying out of the downtown Toronto area, using a convenient connection to places like Ottawa, Montreal and points beyond. I also like the Porter Airline concept, along with the use of Canadian technology in the Q400 from Bombardier. I believe [...]
Filed under: GTA Development, GTA Issues, Technology | Tagged: , Air Canada, Airport, Blue-22, Bombardier, Buttonville, Canadian technology, Danish, David Miller, Europe, gta, Halifax, Hamilton, Jazz, lawsuit, Montreal, Ottawa, Pearson International, Pickering, Porter, Porter Airlines, Q400, Q400 aircraft, SAS, Swedish, Toronto, Toronto Island | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 29, 2007 by thegtapatriot
Starting Sunday, October 28 weekend train trips will now start and end at Aldershot GO Station, rather than Oakville GO Station. The extension offers new weekend service for Bronte and Appleby passengers. This is a big improvement and gain for G.T.A residents. On weekends one can now take trips from Oshawa to Burlington. Hopefully, this [...]
Filed under: Ontario, Public Transit | Tagged: Appleby, Bronte, Burlington, GO, Go Transit, Greater Toronto Area, gta, Hamilton, improvements, Oshawa, Public Transit | No Comments »
Posted on October 24, 2007 by thegtapatriot
The Toronto Star, CityTV (Breakfast Television) and other media outlets are reporting that the TTC maybe “high-jacked” by the Liberal Government of Ontario, which may have been secretly planned all along. Rumors are flying high that the TTC may be taken over by the Government of Ontario and merged with GO Transit, under the umbrella [...]
Filed under: GTA Culture, GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto | Tagged: , Adam Giambrone, Breakfast Television, Buses, City of Toronto, City of Toronto Act, CityTV, Dalton McGuinty, David Miller, Don Mills, GO, Go Transit, Government, Greg Sobara, Greg Sorbara, gta, GTTA, high-jacked, highjacked, King Street West, Liberal, Malvern, Markam, Metropass, Mississauga, North Etobicoke, Ontario government, Province, Provincial, Rumor, Streetcars, the Beaches, Toronto, Toronto Star, Toronto Transit, Transit City, TTC, Vaughan, Viva, YRT | No Comments »
Posted on October 23, 2007 by thegtapatriot
CITY-TV’s iconic street level studios are moving. The television station’s new parent announced they will be leaving their long-time residence at 299 Queen Street West for a new location on Dundas Square. Yesterday, Rogers Communications announced it had entered into an agreement to buy the Olympic Torch building at 35 Dundas St. East.
I do not [...]
Filed under: GTA Culture, GTA Issues | Tagged: , 299 Queen, 299 Queen Street West, 35 Dundas, 35 Dundas Street East, Bell, Bell Globemedia, Bravo, Breakfast Television, CablePulse24, CFTO, CITY-TV, CityNews, CityNews International, CP24, CRTC, Dundas Square, FashionTelevision, gta, News, Olympic Torch, OMNI, Rogers, Rogers Communications, Space, Toronto | No Comments »
Posted on October 20, 2007 by thegtapatriot
The environment is important to all of us in the Greater Toronto Area. This is not merely a governmental and environmental group issue. With the awareness of the effects of greenhouse gasses we are ever increasingly looking to both government and industry to provide answers to the multifaceted problems we face. Regardless of the fact [...]
Filed under: GTA Environment | Tagged: CO2, earth, emmissions, environment, Greater Toronto Area, greenhouse, Greenhouse Gases, gta, Toronto | No Comments »
Posted on October 20, 2007 by thegtapatriot
To be honest, I love subways and I have a bit of a bias towards the Sheppard Subway line. I have always believed that if the subway was completed, or at least ½ done, than it would have never been considered as an option to close or shut down, in the Toronto tax crunch. I [...]
Filed under: GTA Development, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Ontario, Public Transit, Toronto | Tagged: Bathurst, City of Toronto, Downsview, EA, Eglinton West Subway, Environment Assessment, Etobicoke, Greg Sobara, Greg Sorbara, gta, high-density, Jane and Finch, New York Subway, Public Transit, Sheppard, Sheppard subway line, Sheppard-Vaughan-Finch, Spadina, Subway, tax, The Sheppard Subway, Toronto, Toronto LRT, Transit City, TTC, Vaughan, Victoria Park, Viva, Warden, Yonge-University, York, York Region, York U, YRT | 3 Comments »
Posted on October 10, 2007 by thegtapatriot
Do not make the excuse of not voting today! We like to say that we do not care, but complain later when we do not get what we want. For more information on candidates, please check out http://www.democraticspace.com
Make sure you know about the referendum, for both the “Yes” and the “No” camps!
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Filed under: GTA Politics | Tagged: 289, 289ers, 905, 905ers, candidates, democraticspace, democraticspace.com, greater toronto, gta, no MMP, Ontario, Toronto, Vote, Vote MMP | No Comments »
Posted on October 9, 2007 by thegtapatriot
In reading the history of Toronto and the TTC, high investments were made in public transit, which helped the TTC become one of the top transit systems in North America. However during an episode of the Agenda with Steve Paikin, which airs on TVO, one of the panelists mentioned that we need to make investments [...]
Filed under: GTA Environment, GTA Issues, Public Transit, Toronto | Tagged: Brampton, BRT, Dalton McGuinty, Durham, Greg Sorbara, gta, Hurontario, Liberals, Light-rail, LRT, Mississauga, Move 2020, Ontario, Public Transit, Steve Paikin, Streetcars, subways, Toronto, TTC, TVO, Vaughan, Viva, York Region, YRT | No Comments »
Posted on October 3, 2007 by thegtapatriot
The Green Party of Ontario is proposing an innovative solution to poverty: using budget surpluses to help economically vulnerable families buy their own homes. “Paying rent keeps people poor,”. The Green Party doesn’t just want to make sure our poorest citizens have a roof over their heads; we want to help them own the roofs [...]
Filed under: GTA Issues, GTA Politics | Tagged: Affordable Housing, gta, Habitat for Humanity, Ontario, Poverty, The Green Party, Toronto | No Comments »
Posted on October 1, 2007 by thegtapatriot
Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader John Tory has set himself a searing pace for his campaign to lead the Province. He is, quite literally, all over the place. And a good number of hours are spent on wooing GTA’s growing immigrant communities.
Perhaps making up for past deficiencies in the Party, Tory can today boast of [...]
Filed under: GTA Development, GTA Issues | Tagged: Bill 124, ethnic, gta, Inclusive, John Tory, Ontario Progressive Conservative Party, PC, Rogers | No Comments »
Posted on October 1, 2007 by thegtapatriot
Highways have always been a priority in the transportation budget. Even as Mike Harris was dropping responsibility for transit in the laps of cities in the early 2000s, he was pouring cash into highways.
At the same time as the province was crying poor to transit initiatives in its largest city, $3 billion went into building [...]
Filed under: GTA Environment, Public Transit | Tagged: GO tranist, gta, highways, HOV, Public Transit, suburban, TTC, urban | No Comments »
Posted on October 1, 2007 by thegtapatriot
GTA/905 residents are still falling further behind the rest of Ontario in terms of the provincial funding for local hospital care and social services according to a report issued today by the Strong Communities Coalition.
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Filed under: GTA Development, GTA Issues | Tagged: 905, funding, gta, healthcare, Liberal, Ontario, social services | No Comments »
