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Ontario looks to jolt electric car market (Globe and Mail): "The Ontario government will help take the sting out of buying pricey electric cars by offering purchasers incentives of as much as $10,000, Premier Dalton McGuinty is expected to announce today."
Did EMS delay cause man's death? (Toronto Star): "A claim that paramedics refused to enter a downtown condo building to help a dying man because of concerns for their 'health and safety' has been refuted by the good Samaritan who tried to save him."
Striking city workers are doing the math on banked sick day payouts (Globe and Mail): "Striking municipal unions have angrily rejected the city's latest contract offer, but many union members are giving it a good hard look all the same. City officials say that, as of Monday afternoon, more than 28,000 people had visited a special website that lays out the details of the proposed deal." [More coverage in the Toronto Star.]
Cyclist suffers spinal injuries in Spadina & Front crash (National Post): "A 34-year-old cyclist, hit by a car last night at the congested corner of Front Street and Spadina Avenue, remains in hospital with serious head, neck and spinal injuries."
Toronto on strike: The city's unsung civic heroes (National Post): "And at the city’s water filtration plants, management staff have stayed in the locked facilities day and night since the strike began, with other staff bringing them in food. These are the unsung heroes of the city workers’ strike, now in its fourth week—the 4,000 'non-union and management staff' trying to keep some of the city functioning."
Is Smitherman aiming for City Hall? (Toronto Star): "Deputy premier George Smitherman, MPP for Toronto Centre, helped about 30 residents on a cleanup in his riding yesterday... Rumours have circulated for years that Smitherman might run for mayor, but yesterday he insisted he was on the streets as humble Citizen Smitherman, and said citizens shouldn't be denied the right to clean up public spaces."
Buy-local push prompts Ontario grocers to go independent (CBC): "Dale Kropf calls it Independence Day: On July 3, his five grocery stores in southwestern Ontario ceased to be Sobeys franchises. Corporate policies prevented him from buying local products, he says, so he joined forces with four other former Sobeys franchisees and formed the independent Hometown Grocers Co-Op."
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I'm cautiously optimistic about the electric car incentive, I think its a better alternative to the "cash for junkers" program going on down in the states. From what I understand, junking a gas guzzler and buying a new vehicle with better mileage would produce more waste and pollution than keeping them on the roads.
Smitherman doesn't even know we need new streetcars. Not mayoral material.
Forget the incentives, McGuinty could get the electric car rolling by simply allowing the Canadian made Zenn car to be driven on our streets.
Their headquarters are in Toronto.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZENN
So: they don't want me to use my dishwasher until late, because we don't have the juice.
But somehow electric cars must use some other, magical kind of power that they are just keeping in storage?
What happens when 100,000 electric cars come home and are plugged in for next morning's commute?
Reminds me of the ads in the subway "This is a green vehicle". It, again magically, runs only on the non-coal producing electricity.
Anyone want to take a bet: the coal-fired plants won't close on even the most optimistic time lines...
Well, I've read from several sources that electric cars using coal power would still result in less emissions than regular gas-powered cars.
It's all very well to promote electric cars, but as someone who has no garage, parks on the street (not in front of my house as there is no parking on my street), there seem to be some obstacles to general usage.
And I agree, at some point all these plugged in cars will generate brown-outs.