Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'gordono'
August 15, 2007
Dalton 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......
Continue Reading "McGuinty Promises Millions Of Trees, Hampton Promises Less Downloading Of Costs, O'Connor Promises To Suck Less (Hopefully)"May 31, 2007
Jordan Manners will be laid to rest today. His mother is calling out for an inquest so that her 15-year-old son did not "die in vain." If it prevents another shooting in this city, we're all for it. Another Canadian killed in Afghanistan. A NATO helicopter crashed with five American crewmembers, and two members of the military, including one British and the one Canadian. A Taliban spokesperson took responsibility for shooting down the helicopter and......
Continue Reading "Make Air Clear; Save Our Beer; Sens Fans Fear"April 25, 2006
Three divisions of Toronto Police will be trying out tasers in the coming year the Sun reports. We've written about tasers before and how other jurisdictions have had problems with them. We hope that Toronto Police approach this with caution and aren't trigger happy with their new toys. The Star reports that Durham politicos are getting set to fight the greenbelt. Durham is one of the few affected municipalities where there's still opposition to......
Continue Reading "Tasers, Flag Flap Toronto Style and a Missing Paramedic Kit"