Oh dear, I just chose "elected" senate and now I read this! Definitely the best solution to this problem I've seen yet. Even an elected senate would at least be more indicative of what the people want at the time, rather than years of buildup of different political views. But provincially...

I'm guessing that cutting down on station size and maybe elevating between VP and Agincourt or something could help cut costs on the eastern section. Otherwise, sounds about right. I don't understand what's so hard about the concept of investing on our future though. Sure, Sheppard and...

More still, while doing very little wrong in the first place.

Not just that. The last thing we need is more insane knee-jerk conservatism, especially with a person who could be as destructive as Hudak. Hopefully we won't have to suffer Rob Ford, Tim Hudak, and Stephen Harper in 2012.

How inaccurate. Do you think the people of Afghanistan made a conscious decision, or even any decision at all as to how their country is run or what values they have? No: it's a host of different issues, many foreign, that have led them to live in the hellhole that they do today. I mean, we...

Haha right. The Afghan Army needs to train hundreds of thousands more soldiers, likely tens of thousands in the next couple years. Compare that to maybe one or two thousand Canadians needed to train all those men, if that, who already have accommodations within Afghanistan. What if Afghanistan...

1. If you'd prefer to pay for the costs it'd take to move (and house and feed) thousands of Afghani soldiers for training to Canada or the US for several years, then be my guest. Or we can just keep Canadian soldiers over there teaching Afghanis, also improving the civilian state at the same...

Again, this conspiracy theorist mindset that anyone who thinks differently is obviously in on the conspiracy. It simply creates an unbeatable argument.

I'd like to do it to night, but I shall be responding to that post tomorrow. Interesting points, and a quite valid one at the end.

Because this is a very minimal ecosystem. It's like saying that humans are living in a natural habitat as we are now. Suburbia introduces cars, abundant food sources, far more human hunting, and also very small species diversity in fragmented populations, broken up by roads, highways, and...

$3 billion perhaps if you decide to tunnel underneath a wide Sheppard avenue, adding underground bus bays and 4 exits to every station. There's no reason at all that a Sheppard subway should cost over $300 million/km, that's been stated clearly several times.

Though given the densities along Sheppard East of there, a LRT to Malvern from STC seems like a much, much better plan. Hopefully we can still somehow get what you suggest though. Because really, any LRT west of Agincourt will just end up being a waste of money somewhere.

Don't call victory until we actually get some form of transit out of this. It'd be just as much of a tragedy if Ford just cut all the transit funding.

Firstly, yeah if I had to choose poverty vs large environmental damage, I'd choose the environment. Secondly, it doesn't need to be poverty. If you run out of room to build single family houses, start making mid rise apartments and high rise buildings, or redeveloping larger lot housing. This...

Also, they might prove to be faster and more efficient than our current subways. Sacrificing the pros that may come to system upkeep from a comprehensive network, but not bad. Also, we could always just raise taxes 0.5% or something and get subways and LRTs.

But you'd lose an entire 1.3% of Southern Ontario to suburbia, which isn't even including actual farmland. If we were judging by actual farmland, it'd be over 2.5% of the arable land in Ontario just to house 5 million more people (which isn't actually the case because free suburbanization will...

Exactly. For instance, it's near-impossible to actually fire a teacher in the current union environment. They have way, way too much power. I don't want union workers to be the powerless people that they used to be, but they wouldn't be so. Are office workers abused and given deplorable...

This is kind of an important point, as well as some good food for thought as to why 9/11 might have actually not been an inside job.

^^ You're right, we should just build as much suburbia as we want. Who cares about forests and farms and clean water and nature, we need those cheap 4 bedroom houses! Oh wait, I was thinking in the mind of an anti-environmentalist for a second there. Do you honestly see nothing wrong with...

So what, do we kick out all the current homophobes and mysogonists that have been born in the country? Oh yes, don't you remember our new mayor, white Canadian homophobe and mysogonist Rob Ford? Yes, tolerance can be taught, how do you think we've gone from sticking gays in psychiatric wards to...