Tip Us Off
E-mail us with news tips, discoveries, story ideas, and anything else cool.
Advertisements

About Torontoist

Torontoist is a website about Toronto and everything that happens in it. More about us.

Editor-in-Chief: DAVID TOPPING

Publisher: GOTHAMIST

What's On Today
Check out Torontoist's daily event listings
Recent Comments
The Tall Poppy Interview
Favourites

August 15, 2007

McGuinty Promises Millions Of Trees, Hampton Promises Less Downloading Of Costs, O'Connor Promises To Suck Less (Hopefully)

twotrees.jpgDalton McGuinty will pledge to plant fifty million trees to help fight climate change. Now, some might say that this is a somewhat lackluster pledge, what with the small print of promising to print all the trees over thirteen years. But what they didn't mention is that the trees are actually sentient and will come to your home to politely discuss with you the merits of public transit, and help you compost and reduce your energy use! And people say government can't do anything.

Gordon O'Connor is out as defence minister, and Peter MacKay is in. Which is kind of like replacing Curly with Moe. Yeah, it's a bit better, but still, by the end of the reel your kitchen is going to be underwater. (Also, O'Connor is now National Revenue minister, so expect Canada to be broke within six months.)

Howard Hampton promises to reverse some effects of provincial downloading if elected. That sound you just heard was Denzil Minnan-Wong's head exploding.

Ontario to spend $35 million to turn Kipling Station into a major transit hub. Although if you look at it more closely, all they're really doing is adding Missisauga Transit bus stops to it, since it's already a TTC and GO station. (With any luck, though, some of that $35 million will be directed towards making Kipling less fugly.)

Street racers to face $10K fines if they get caught. Now street racers will have to be rich and irresponsible if they want to keep street racing... oh, wait.

And Roy Halladay pitched his fifth complete game of the season as the Jays beat the Angels 4–1.

Photo by Simon Chambers from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.


Email This Entry







Advertisement: Torontoist Continues Below!

Comments (2)

Curly with Moe? LOL.

Further proof that Cabinet Minister is one of those "no experience required" jobs.

 

Tree planting is nice and all, but preserving mature boreal forest is even better. How much of this planting initiative is just a subsidy for the forestry industry? I'm askin', not sayin', as the article isn't exactly clear on this point.

And, while they're at it, an effort to restore or expand a couple of patches of that carolinian forest we used to have would be cool too.

 
Post a comment (Comment Policy)

2003-2008 Gothamist LLC. All rights reserved. Terms of Use & Privacy Policy. We use MovableType.