TTC and the Anti-poverty coalition

Every once in awhile my spam catcher works in overdrive and holds a legitimate message. No idea why, maybe it tweaks upon a few key words here and there. I’m reprinting a message sent to me, via a comment on the TTC mess. Although I’ve approved the comment to show, I thought it should get [...]

Back on my hobby horse

I’ve been busy for the past few days. I have a lovely new 64 bit dual core lots of ram no more gerbil power for me laptop! I’ve spent an embarassing amount of time playing around with it. Oh dear, I am in love! Fast and powerful.  Too bad it couldn’t organise me and make [...]

Addendum to the epic rant

Oh you just know I’m going to be like a dog with a bone over the TTC, don’t you. I just read this on the CBC’s website: …repairs above a subway tunnel just south of the St. Clair station may have compromised the tunnel’s integrity, according to the Toronto Transit Commission. A contractor not associated [...]

Psst…. wanna know why your TTC fare is going up?

Local transit (TTC) fares are increasing again! Quite a bit – a monthly pass is increasing from $109 to $121. Give them applause folks because they backed down from the proposed increase to $126. I think cooler heads prevailed when they realised there would be a complete revolt at such an unconscionable increase during a [...]