Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'capitals'
January 24, 2008
TTC subways twice as costly to build as Madrid's. And they got tapas while they were building it. Rogers increases their fake "system access" fee. Torontoist has learned that this is only the first in a proposed system of additional fees, including an "energy cost of making your phone ring louder" fee, a "remembering that you're paying for additional services" fee, and the obviously necessary "keeping track of all the fees you owe us"......
Continue Reading "Subways More Expensive Here, So Are Mobile Phones, And So Will Be Space Travel"October 30, 2007
Liberals turf scandal-ridden MP. Blair Wilson (West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast) would just like everybody to know that he is very sorry that he impugned the Liberal Party's name with his electoral spending mishaps, although not quite so sorry that he's resigning as a member of Parliament. City capital budget for next year unveiled. A large increase in necessary infrastructure spending is the highlight of the budget, which we still can't pay for and which most voters......
Continue Reading "Grit MP Resigns, Budgets Showing Up, Leafs Get Asses Handed To Them"March 7, 2007
Toronto city council has approved a new design for the city's street-name signs. The city replaces roughly 2,000 to 2,500 signs each year anyway, so the new design will be phased-in gradually. Fortunately, it looks like this may not be as large a waste of taxpayer funds as one might expect. Federal Court Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson ordered the release of Toronto terrorism suspect Mahmoud Jaballah. Jabllah was held for more than five years without......
Continue Reading "New Street Signs, We Need Streetcar Lines, Middle-Aged Woman Commits Crimes"