Comrade Miler's Legacy...

Surviving Mayor Miller's air error

Maybe we should get Porter Airlines to run Transit City.
Despite constant attempts to ground the tiny airline, it keeps on growing — Friday announcing it will soon go public for investment.
Wonder if Mayor David Miller will get on the PA system at the Billy Bishop Airport on the island and urge people not to do it?

Porter clears runway for IPO

And to think the mayor won his job by trying to stop the bridge that would allow growth on the island. In fact some would argue the only thing, in his almost seven years on the job, that ever happened was the development of Porter Airlines.
The stuff Miller proposes doesn’t happen and the stuff he opposes does.
It’s too bad Miller didn’t make those anti-McGuinty comments on the PA in the subway a couple of months ago, because then union boss Bobby Kinnear would have had someone to blame for all of his people falling asleep.
Truth is Miller is probably right in this: McGuinty stiffed him — and us. If the mayor has any real guts, and honestly believes in the Transit City plan, why doesn’t he put his name on the ballot and challenge George Smitherman and Rob Ford who are in the lead?
I wasn’t surprised at the 27% Ford received in the Toronto Star/Angus Reid poll because people are sick of big government. My feeling on lefty politico slugs is they hate people having equity in their homes and savings. They prefer the homeless, drug addicts and sponge artists because it keeps them employed.
That’s why they love new taxes like the HST or even kicking the daylights out of everybody with higher energy costs. For taxpayers it’s not about fairness or achieving independence anymore. It’s about feeding the monster. Government is not about services. It’s about surviving at all costs.
It’s the biggest gang around and it puts its fingers into as many parts of your life as you allow it too.

Toronto Sun's week in review

Sun Media's Rob Granatstein and Joe Warmington discuss David Miller's overhead TTC message and the upcoming municipal election.

Another hopeless homeless study

By Sue-ANN LEVY, City Hall Columnist

One year pretty much to the day after it was taken, the city’s $118,988 homeless street count reports that the number of street people has declined in the past three years by 51% from 818 to 400.

Plan to house the homeless working, city says

By JONATHAN JENKINS, Toronto Sun

An ambitious plan to move people off Toronto streets and into homes is working, the city’s general manager of Shelter, Support and Housing said after releasing a survey of the homeless population.