Egad, lots of parks and trees - but where are the people? The place looks desolate. Still, it's amazing what can be done in an environ that has nice weather 12 months of the year.

The TTC represents a double monopoly: only the TTC has a mandate to provide public transit within Toronto and only unionized personnel can work for the TTC. Perfect recipe for hijacking the taxpayer. I know there are exceptions out there, but anyone I've ever met in a TTC uniform has been...

Now there is a step in the right direction: let's f#$K up the only 2 E-W streets downtown that actually move. :rolleyes:

I see this push-pull argument across many lines. The waterfront is for everyone to use. This is a city, not Algonquin Park. Transportation of all forms is vital to a city's economic health. There is enough Parkland in this city now that is underdeveloped and under used. Considering the...

Although no one could argue that the 905 belt prospered because of Toronto, it's much more of a symbiosis now. 416 and 905 need each other. Unfortunately, there is too much us versus them attitude. I don't feel morally superior for living south of Bloor than my sister who opts for Pickering...

And what are YOU driving? The rich have always gotten richer. That's an unerring fact since Mesopotamia. Anyone can turn a wrench, but should they be paid $80k a year to do that? That is the question. There is plenty of pain at GM and Ford these days. Nobody's job is safe. This...

When their are 3 people behind the scenes on the pay roll for every teacher, there has to be some serious fat to cut in the school boards. 12% of a 6 billion dollar budget is on the order of SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS to service the debt. Is any of that money being used to pay it...

Any idiot can fathom that exposure to violence and sex over long periods of time is quite obviously going to desensitize the individuals to those acts. Come on - that is common sense! Does anyone here think that an 8 year old should be watching Texas Chainsaw Massacres or Bimbo Vixens III...

I don't think violence on television necessarily causes violence, but it does give otherwise stupid people ideas. How many times have you watched a movie that gives a pretty detailed description of how to murder someone and hide your tracks, or pull off a bank robbery or whatever, and groaned...

The best rebuttal to this tired argument I have ever heard is to use the example of the Jewish community. Nobody has ever been more ostracized, more spurned, more descriminated against in history than the Jews. They were used as slaves long before the blacks were 'discovered' in Africa...

I understand what Dion and others are trying to do: you burn a lot of fossil fuels, so let's tax those fuels and use the tax to invest in benign projects like wind power or offset those carbon emissions by planting trees (or paying someone to plant trees) in Costa Rica. Sounds great on paper...

Not that I am advocating a return to this, but I wonder what kind of correlation there is between our sedentary society today, and the society of our forefathers where military service was mandatory, with respect to the rise of violence. We evolved over hundreds of thousands of years and...

Authorities believe it was a revenge killing for a shooting done just the day before. The vehicle involved belonged to a person living in the same building as the other shooting. Why don't we open a paint ball range with real bullets and let them all go there to work it out. It would save...

Our firm is looking into doing business with drivegreen.org, but we are having a difficult time figuring out how much money actually ends up in planting trees in Costa Rica. My suspicion with a lot of these bureaucracies is that for every $100 spent, less than 30% finds its way into actually...

I don't think anyone can argue that owning and driving a car is cheaper. That isn't the point. Even if time is not money, personal time is priceless. I live downtown and it takes 45 minutes via TTC, versus 30 minutes in the worst traffic (although I average 23 minutes.) Twenty minutes a day...

Frankly, I wouldn't give most drug dealers enough credit to figure out how to do anything creative, but who knows how talented/motivated the people further up the supply chain are? With other 'party drugs,' it is common knowledge that they are mixed with other substances; partly to make them...

Don't use the testing station at Lawrence/Victoria Park. My partner failed his test twice there. I've been told they take kickbacks from the driving schools. Interesting because the 'school' will charge $100 to use their vehicle for the test if you don't have your own car. When he went...

I can understand the confusion, though. The ramp to the DVP on the east side of the Bloor Viaduct has a posted sign forcing motorists to yield to pedestrians. It creates huge bottlenecks in the morning and evening rush hour. I'm not sure what the law states, but I've had pedestrians simply...

I'm not here to make enemies, my friend. I want to learn and impart knowledge where I may. Forgive my passion, but there are no quick fixes; unfortunately I fear we are in dire need of them!

Now that is a topic for an entirely different thread, but it boils down to this: GM enjoyed nearly 50% market share once upon a time; Ford 26% ('71). They had nowhere to go but down. Nowhere else has any other auto manufacturer enjoyed the success that Ford/GM had until recently. GM is #1...