Nothing Changes At McGoontyland...

Another McGoonty Broken Campaign Promise..

Liberals can't explain election pledge to move gas plant


The governing Liberals were at a loss to explain Wednesday why construction is continuing at a gas plant in Mississauga they pledged to shut down during the Ontario election campaign.

Come'on Tim....

...you are going to have to put a lot more on the table!

And At Our F*#@kingham Palace...

Putting Government Spending Into Perspective...

HELPLESS: Result Of Two Tier Justice...

 Arrested for making the police look bad in Caledonia

The place in Ontario where the police dare not go

 If the suspect wasn't white, the police learned to walk away

Not Every Seperated Father Is A Deadbeat Dad!

...but it seems like the bureaucrats, family courts and the government think so.

Matt Gurney: Dysfunctional Ontario bureaucracy sets up fathers to fail

(Aaron Lynett / National Post)

Dalton McGuinty: Men? Why should I care about men?

Ontario’s plan to begin impounding the cars of fathers who fall behind in their child support payments next month has a familiar ring to it. I’ve heard of a very similar story before. The man’s name is Jeff Dolan, and his case should ring alarm bells for any Ontario politician considering linking driving privileges to child support.

Jeff’s story is as depressing as it is worrisome. His wife left him soon after he lost his job when the construction industry in his native Minnesota bottomed out. He moved from job to job, trying to earn enough to meet his child support obligations and pay for needed medical treatment, but with no jobs available, he fell behind in his payments while volunteering at a sexual violence clinic and looking for stable work. He finally landed a good job, one that would allow him to make his payments and also included medical benefits. But then the courts caught up with him and, since he’d fallen behind in his payments, stripped him of his license. A valid driver’s license was a condition of his new job, which he then lost. He then fell further behind, and was jailed. The courts told him he could get out once he had a job. He couldn’t get a job until he restored his ability to drive … and he couldn’t do that from jail. Read More »

McGoonty Hasn't Shown He Is Willing To Piss Off Unions...

Transit strikes: Time to declare TTC essential
Wed Nov 3 2010


We disagree with mayor-elect Rob Ford on most issues, but he has our support on at least one front — declaring the TTC an essential service, with labour disputes to be settled by binding arbitration. The Star believes that the TTC is so vital to our economy -- and to low-income residents, seniors and students who have no alternative means of travel -- that TTC workers should not have the right to strike.

...so city council is wasting it's time asking him and they will have to wait until next year when he goes skulking back to Ottawa.

Applying Fordian logic to the TTC – stop the dreaming, stem the bleeding

Building The Case For Govt. Privatization...

 ...go to the next posting

Grass Root Movement Wins Ontario Taxpayers Pay The Bill...

* contract settlement $$$
* increase in energy costs
* possible summer brownouts
* less investment by manufacturers!

Oakville power plant reversal means future trouble

Sun Oct 10 2010


Oakville residents were understandably jubilant when the province reversed itself Thursday and cancelled construction of a $1.2 billion gas-fired power plant in their community. On their way to victory, they had deployed petitions, mass demonstrations, sympathetic celebrities (including a paid appearance by environmental crusader Erin Brockovich), YouTube videos, and a platoon of local politicians. They scored a landmark win, but it will energize opposition to other vital power projects.

McGoontyland Next Battleground...

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  South Africa: Civil servants strike

  Government employees close schools, hospitals and challenge President Jacob Zuma and ANC.
  

Warmington Is Right On The Mark...

Another headache on the DVP

By JOE WARMINGTON, Toronto Sun

Last Updated: August 31, 2010 9:02pm

Go Transit buses will travel on reserved lanes on the DVP, between Lawrence Ave. and York Mills Rd. (JOE WARMINGTON, Toronto Sun)

The war on the car continues. This time the battlefield is on the Don Valley Parkway.
In fact the bicycle-socialists have established a new front that ought to help pay for some new environmentally-friendly bunny suits for our free spending councillors.
“Open Sept. 7: $85 for mis-use,” said the flashing electronic sign which alternates that message with “Go Transit bypass lane.”
Just like that Toronto Police brass have another fishing hole to waste their officer’s time to vigorously enforce instead of assisting with the city’s dozens of unsolved murders. If your home gets broken into, there will be no investigation but there will be a robust effort to enforce these phony new Go bus lanes.
At a cost of $120,000 to the Toronto taxpayer, Go Transit has a new 2.5-kilometre lane — northbound and southbound — between Lawrence Ave. and York Mills Rd, which was previously the shoulder.
It will now be a lane strictly for GO buses and if you succumb to the temptation to venture in, you are not only facing an $85 fine but two demerit points. And don’t forget the $90 fine for violating Ontario’s “yield-to-bus” law.
No fines ever seem to happen to any of these useless politicians, though.
While this is part cash-grab and part road-block, the Cadillac conservationists — who go on carbon-emitting jets on money collected from these fines — will say this is going to make Toronto the greenest morning rush-hour in North America.
All this really does is make your life harder — unless, perhaps, you are on one of those 100 Go Buses which will have 10 minutes shaved off their trip.
Wonder what it will add to the trip of the ostracized motorist? No one seems to care about the 20 minutes stolen from the north Toronto commuter on Jarvis St. thanks to the new bike lanes built for Councillor Kyle Rae’s 100 cycling friends.
Sad that for the cost of the $1 billion G20 weekend, we could have had a rail-link run all the way up and down the Don Valley instead of a few coats of paint that will make the DVP even more dangerous.
Once again they have stuck up regular people with another disgraceful, distasteful and rapacious robbery of law-abiding and contributing taxpayers while the real criminals laugh out loud.
It’s called the war on the car but it really is a war on the average taxpayer, many now living on minimum wage while being driven to, protected and serviced by public sector service workers making close to or more than six figures.
Meanwhile struggling families, many whose jobs have been stolen by slave labour countries, must pay these new fines, fees, taxes, levies, delivery charges and permits, with their third salary source — their already maxed-out credit cards which ding families with interest rates at 19%.
How fourth-rate failures like McGuinty and Miller can look in the mirror is beyond me. Our role has now become to service the Service Industrial Complex that is there to serve us but has flipped around so that we serve it. It gobbles up every penny in a society that no longer creates anything but new ways to soak our money.
This is just another money-collection trap in a long line so plentiful we can’t even remember what they all are any more. Beaten, and with their pockets exposed, many have simply put their hands up in surrender.
The truth is there really is no war at all.

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Decision Time McGoonty...

...do the unions or the government run the education system?

Public sector wage freeze could lead to strikes: CAW

Premier Dalton McGuinty tours the newly constructed Pope John Paul II Elementary School on Pebblecreek Dr. in Kitchener on Aug. 30. Leading him on the tour is Principal Pam Garbutt, Leeana Pendergast and John Milloy.

Peter Lee/Waterloo Region Recor

By Rob Ferguson

Tue Aug 31 2010
 

CAW says Ontario could see an end to years of public sector labour peace if McGuinty sticks with wage freeze plan

The high cost of Ontario high school

44 minutes ago

Ontario school boards are charging for classroom supplies, textbooks, and other curriculum-related items that amount to “user fees,” says People for Education.

Problem - Hudak Hasn't Shown He Remembers The Common Sense Revolution...

Voter Discontent Could Boost Ontario PCs Fortunes

voters in the province of Ontario are tired of being overtaxed and just treated as a another source of revenue for an ever- ballooning government bureaucracy. Ontarians now want a return to fiscal sanity and a strong hand on the teller of government.Source Toronto SunVoters know what they don’t want: They’re tired of posturing, dirty tricks and taxation.The pollsters at Ipsos Reid have been...

Tory Redux |

Too Good To Be True...

Big Deal! Even After A Litany Of Broken Promises And...

...new taxes they re-elected the liberals. The public in Ontario adhere to the cradle to grave promises by PET!

Coyle: New poll will rock McGuinty’s government

By Jim Coyle

A new Ipsos Reid poll has devastating numbers for Premier Dalton McGuinty and his Liberal government; the public is really disillusioned

Character Is Important BUT...

...getting the job done in the best interest of the electorate is IMHO is more important. Comrade Miller and Premier Dad McGoonty for all intents and purposes seem to be squeaky clean and look at the mess they created.

Rob Ford’s honesty in question: Editorial

Character counts in Toronto’s mayoral race.

• Rob Ford Denies DUI
• Rob Ford 'clears the air'
• Ford Admits To Being Busted For Pot

Scandal won't stop Ford, nor should it

Chris Selley: If drinking and driving couldn't bring down Gordon Campbell, and "party drugs" couldn't bring down George Smitherman, drinking and driving with a joint in his pocket seems unlikely to bring down Rob Ford

• Timeline: Rob Ford’s gaffes

Tasha Kheiriddin: Rob Ford: the Barack Obama of Toronto

Sarah Thomson Faced Assault Charge In 1999
The candidate for mayor of Toronto face an assault charge from an ex-employee.

Smitherman admits he had addiction problem

By DON PEAT and IAN ROBERTSON, Toronto Sun

George Smitherman has also tangled with illegal drug use.

At Queen's Park...

...and Premier Dad has a gift for you

Chris Selly Sends A Message To Youth...

...get off your ass and go out and vote!

Full Comment Podcast: More restrictions on young drivers

Chris Selley  July 29, 2010 – 1:38 pm

 

July 28, 2010 — National Post editorial board members Matt Gurney and Marni Soupcoff join host Chris Selley to discuss Ontario’s new blood-alcohol limit for young drivers — and on the lighter side, Preston Manning’s novel idea for a “Confederation Theme Park” in Ottawa.

 

Posted in: Canada, Full Comment, Social Issues  Tags: Chris Selley, podcast, Matt Gurney, Marni Soupcoff, drunk driving, Dalton McGuinty, Preston Manning, Ottawa

And Who Has Been In Charge For The Last Decade..

...The Star's golden haired boy McGuinty. Aren't they also Miller's Patron?

Why you pay so much for hydro

The Ontario economy prospered in the past in part due to low electricity costs but taxes and other charges have largely destroyed that advantage.

Rene Johnston/Toronto Star

 

By Andy Frame

Fri Jul 30 2010

 

Taxes, new charges and profit-taking have added millions of dollars to Ontarians’ electricity bills in the past decade.