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Where is David Price? He hasn't been spotted in a couple of weeks. Cayman Islands? Jail?
Maplehurst Correctional Centre (affectionately known as the Milton Hilton)?
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Where is David Price? He hasn't been spotted in a couple of weeks. Cayman Islands? Jail?
Speaking of Olivia Chow, take a walk through Toronto Necroplis in Cabbagetown and you'll notice lots of famous graves:
Joseph Bloore
William Lyon Mackenzie - Toronto's first mayor and leader of the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion
George Brown - One of the Fathers of Confederation and founder of what is now The Globe and Mail
John Ross Robertson - founder of the Toronto Telegram
Wilson Ruffin Abbott - successful Black Canadian businessman and landowner
Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott - first Canadian-born black surgeon
Ned Hanlan - world-champion oarsman
Thornton Blackburn - former slave who made his way to Canada on the "Underground Railroad" and established the first cab company in Toronto (1890)
Ainsworth Dyer - a corporal in Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and died in Afghanistan in 2002
Senator John Macdonald (1824-1890) - Canadian merchant, churchman, philanthropist, and politician
Kay Christie (1911-1994) - Canadian Nursing Sister in Hong Kong during the Japanese Invasion during WWII. One of two Canadian Nursing sisters to have been held as a Prisoner of War
And...
Jack Layton (1950-2011) - politician (Toronto city councillor, later leader of the New Democratic Party)
You'll notice Jack's grave because it's the only one in the cemetary with a very prominent podium and bust of the the person's head. It's so incredibly tacky in an otherwise beautiful setting.
William Lyon Mackenzie, George Brown and the rest just have normal tasteful headstones. Jack has a huge monument to himself. It's brutal.
A generation from now he'll be forgotten and people will walk thorugh the Necroplis and say who's this guy and why does he have a bronze bust of his head?!
Speaking of Olivia Chow, take a walk through Toronto Necroplis in Cabbagetown and you'll notice lots of famous graves:
...
You'll notice Jack's grave because it's the only one in the cemetary with a very prominent podium and bust of the the person's head. It's so incredibly tacky in an otherwise beautiful setting.
William Lyon Mackenzie, George Brown and the rest just have normal tasteful headstones. Jack has a huge monument to himself. It's brutal.
A generation from now he'll be forgotten and people will walk thorugh the Necroplis and say who's this guy and why does he have a bronze bust of his head?!
I had a long-winded response to your post, but AoD put it more succinctly.
I'd prioritize the DRL. Then I'd build an LRT with as many stops as would be required for max ridership. Not a weak-ass 3 stop subway.
I'm sure Jack was in on the decision.
The other reason why SRT is more urgent than the DRL is that the Eglinton line is already under construction and it should be built integral with the SRT to create a proper network. Thus, the decision to put the Eglinton line ahead of the DRL has also forced the SRT to be done before the DRL as well.
Well, since Rob & Doug have saved us a billion dollars, it was cost neutral. (sarcasm, hopefully obviously)If it costs us a billion dollars to convince the people of Scarborough that an LRT would have been better, I guess that is the price we pay. Now if only this fiasco could wake Torontonians up to the fact that extending subway lines by a few stops into the suburbs is a classic political scam that our city has been screwed over by many times before.
Speaking of Olivia Chow, take a walk through Toronto Necroplis in Cabbagetown and you'll notice lots of famous graves:
Joseph Bloore
William Lyon Mackenzie - Toronto's first mayor and leader of the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion
George Brown - One of the Fathers of Confederation and founder of what is now The Globe and Mail
John Ross Robertson - founder of the Toronto Telegram
Wilson Ruffin Abbott - successful Black Canadian businessman and landowner
Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott - first Canadian-born black surgeon
Ned Hanlan - world-champion oarsman
Thornton Blackburn - former slave who made his way to Canada on the "Underground Railroad" and established the first cab company in Toronto (1890)
Ainsworth Dyer - a corporal in Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry and died in Afghanistan in 2002
Senator John Macdonald (1824-1890) - Canadian merchant, churchman, philanthropist, and politician
Kay Christie (1911-1994) - Canadian Nursing Sister in Hong Kong during the Japanese Invasion during WWII. One of two Canadian Nursing sisters to have been held as a Prisoner of War
And...
Jack Layton (1950-2011) - politician (Toronto city councillor, later leader of the New Democratic Party)
You'll notice Jack's grave because it's the only one in the cemetary with a very prominent podium and bust of the the person's head. It's so incredibly tacky in an otherwise beautiful setting.
William Lyon Mackenzie, George Brown and the rest just have normal tasteful headstones. Jack has a huge monument to himself. It's brutal.
A generation from now he'll be forgotten and people will walk thorugh the Necroplis and say who's this guy and why does he have a bronze bust of his head?!
If it costs us a billion dollars to convince the people of Scarborough that an LRT would have been better, I guess that is the price we pay. Now if only this fiasco could wake Torontonians up to the fact that extending subway lines by a few stops into the suburbs is a classic political scam that our city has been screwed over by many times before.
Indeed, the Vaughan extension does little to help the TTC. Each person who lives outside of Toronto that rides the TTC costs us more than those who pay Toronto property tax, as most of the non-farebox funding comes from the city. Big money is being spent to attract riders who cost us more money. This is the first extension outside of Toronto (or, pre-amalgamated Metro Toronto) and is a mistake in my opinion.
This could've been better served by improving service on the Barrie GO line.
Of course he was in on the decision. They didn't put up a bust of his head without his wishes. It wasn't done by his fans. It was done by him.
In 50 years everyone will be saying Jack who? Beacuse unlike those other people he didn't actually accomplish anything other than leading an opposition party.
Purely political move to appease Greg Sorbara/Murizio Bevilacqua and the development money that is involved. I think a proper planning move was to have the Go train run more often or have more stops. I would assume that Vaughan would contribute an operating percentage to the city? It's also mind boggling that they would need to 'tunnel' all the way up there through farm land instead of having an at grade system like existing sections of the Spadina line
Farm land? Have you even been up there? How can you put a subway at grade through there?Purely political move to appease Greg Sorbara/Murizio Bevilacqua and the development money that is involved. I think a proper planning move was to have the Go train run more often or have more stops. I would assume that Vaughan would contribute an operating percentage to the city? It's also mind boggling that they would need to 'tunnel' all the way up there through farm land instead of having an at grade system like existing sections of the Spadina line.