[casita]

It's not that complicated. This is the standard Remembrance Day speech:
http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/c...nnel=c08332d0b6d1e310VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD

Same one every year basically. If Rob can do it, I figure just about anyone can.

Remembrance Day Services Speech

Good morning, everyone.

Canada's first Remembrance Day was held on this day in 1919 to mark the first anniversary of the end of the First World War.

And so, as we have done for the last 94 years, the people of Toronto join all Canadians to remember and honour those who have fought for our freedom.

We honour and remember the service and sacrifice of more than one and a half million Canadians.

It is hoped that by remembering, we will do all we can to strive for peace.

This year, Canada marks several significant anniversaries.

This is the year that we officially recognize the six long years of the Battle of the Atlantic.

We also mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Korean War.

Canada joined the Korean War in support of the United Nations ideals of peace and freedom.

In the pursuit of a global peace, over 26,000 Canadians served in the Korean War.

The names of the 516 Canadians who died are recorded in the Korea Book of Remembrance.

Since then, over 125,000 Canadians have served in pursuit of a global peace.

Those who did not return are owed a debt that can never be repaid.

Today, we remember those who have served Canada so valiantly in times of need.

Thank you.

A bit of grim reality - and stark contrast to that "shit happens" response, eh? Jeez.

Grim for Private Wilson.

 

[Jimmi T]

The news has gotten significantly more boring!

 

[the lemur]

Yep, lets make sure Robbie is in the news cycle, especially on a day such as this... let's link Robbie to the
"Glorious Dead".

Anyway, if people want to talk about Robbie... didn't he say there is no surface disruption when building a subway? The attempt at linking two different projects with different alignments is humorous. Alas, SAL's attempted in comes up more twattle.

Eglinton in throes of LRT construction turmoil
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/11/10/eglinton-in-throes-of-lrt-construction-turmoil

It's as if no one cares to remember how disruptive construction of the Sheppard line was: a whopping great hole that created more problems than either St Clair or Eglinton.

 

[the lemur]

I am not sure if one should take kindly to that - it shows a lack of preparation and care. If you can prep and read a speech, you definitely can make sure these details are right. It's not "sh*t happens" (and that attitude is in an on itself highly problematic applied to something as sombre as a RD ceremony).

AoD

Fortunately she'll only be around until Cressy can take office; this blunder and her attitude towards it show that being careless and callous can also happen when you're on the other end of the political spectrum from Ford, who might have done and said the same. The difference is that Sun columnists will rake her over the coals for being a 'radical feminist Marxist reverse-racist [add -isms ad lib]' but the same words and attitude from Ford get only shrugs and apologias from Warmington.

 

[TOBorn]

The news has gotten significantly more boring!

Jimmi T, you did mention many, many pages back that you had additional information on Jaclyn Dawe. Care to share now?

 

[The Peter Wool Clock]

It's amazing that you guys couldn't wait for Rob Ford to no longer be mayor -- yet now that this has happened -- you can't stop talking about him. Get a life, and stop wasting so much time on this turkey. Aren't you sick of obsessing over him? It's not healthy.

 

[eyewonder]

I love turkey

 

[JWBF]

I'm just thankful he didn't send Doug as his designated Hitler, like at Nuit Blanche. "Folks!..."

I fixed it for you.

 

[JWBF]

It's as if no one cares to remember how disruptive construction of the Sheppard line was: a whopping great hole that created more problems than either St Clair or Eglinton.

My sister-in-law was living up there during that mess, she still goes a little red when talking about the detours and such.

 

[JWBF]

Here's a snicker...

 

[AlbertHWagstaff]

It's as if no one cares to remember how disruptive
construction of the Sheppard line was: a whopping great hole that created more problems than either St Clair or Eglinton.

Not to mention the years of disruption at Keele & Finch.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

It's amazing that you guys couldn't wait for Rob Ford to no longer be mayor -- yet now that this has happened -- you can't stop talking about him. Get a life, and stop wasting so much time on this turkey. Aren't you sick of obsessing over him? It's not healthy.

Indeed. Now if only someone can acknowledge that being banned and keep coming back on the forum over 20 times is unhealthy, Steven.

Banned.

AoD

 

[DeathSilver]

Here's a snicker...

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LOL. Yeah, and I only smoke crack in my drunken stupors!

 

[sweetlou]

Not to mention the years of disruption at Keele & Finch.

Nor the two years and counting at Bay and Front for the 'underground' work at Union Station.

 

[zang]

It's as if no one cares to remember how disruptive construction of the Sheppard line was: a whopping great hole that created more problems than either St Clair or Eglinton.

It's all confirmation bias (anti-confirmation bias?). They want subways over LRT and so they're willing to believe that the LRT work being done is far more disruptive than subway work—although the entire underground section of the crosstown is being done the exact same way a traditional subway would. I've seen news reports with "angry residents" of Eglinton and they all seem to be shot in the area where it's underground. Even chief NIMBY SAL lives in an area where the LRT will run underground, and where the exact same work is happening that would be happening if it were Toronto Rockets instead of Flexity trains.

All because it's called an LRT and not a "subway".