Even The Tyee in BC is talking about how “Harper backs Toronto’s mayor’s yen for subways, cars over light rail.” Here on the waterfront where we are headquartered, only half an hour from the downtown depths of the city with the heart of a loan shark itself (by public transit), we have just completed our [...]
Things have finally come to a head in the great question of the fate of the Ford Brothers Revolution in Toronto municipal politics. The Rob and Doug Show has at last galvanized a perhaps reasonably well organized City Council Opposition. The chosen field of bloody combat is public transit (policy and programs) in the megacity [...]
[UPDATE DECEMBER 4 : Initial impressions of first NDP/NPD leadership debate — SEE BELOW]. Tomorrow, Sunday 4 December 2011, at 2PM ET / 11AM PT, the nine (count em) contenders for the leadership of the New Democratic Party of Canada / Nouveau Parti démocratique du Canada will be holding their first debate in Ottawa — [...]
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011. The Canadian House of Commons returns to work today, after its usual long summer vacation (once an essential break for family farmers, for whom summer was the crucial busy season). According to the lovely Jennifer Ditchburn at The Canadian Press, after “tributes to late NDP leader Jack Layton” are paid in [...]
The big North American political news this coming week is of course the US mid-term elections on Tuesday, November 2 — which may or may not put Barack Obama and his beleaguered Democrats in some kind of dog house (and almost certainly will: the only real question is just how dirty it will be?). Meanwhile, [...]
