The national president of CUPE walks out of a House Committee meeting on public transit after Tory MPs bait him.
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Toronto Transit should give us a free ride
Should public transit be free on smog and heat alert days? What an idea. Time to get on the bus and start moving forward again.
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Transit Forum 2012
Kevin Konnyu of Occupy TTC makes the case for public transit.
Mayor Ford ends the 'war on the car' and starts one against motorists
Don Cherry has a lesson to teach Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.
Cherry has spent a career promoting the hockey fighter, sometimes known as the enforcer or goon. The problem is that the science of brain injuries has caught up with (and passed) his assertion that the violence of these bare-knuckle encounters doesn't really hurt anyone, and helps the game. Indeed, the very fighters whose role Cherry has championed are increasingly turning out to be the game's victims.
![Karl Nerenberg](http://rabble.ca/sites/rabble/files/imagecache/thumbnail/category_pictures/Karl.jpg "Karl Nerenberg joins rabble to cover news for the rest of us from Parliament Hill. Karl has been a journalist for over 25 years including eight years as the producer of the CBC show The House. He has written scripts for documentary films and long-form television reports for such shows as Le Point and Actuel on Radio Canada television and The Journal on CBC-TV. Karl also founded and, for five years, edited the magazine Federations: What's new in federalism worldwide.
Karl has been awarded a Gemini award, a Best International Documentary Series award (from "la communauté des televisions francophones"), a CBC Radio Award for Best New Series (C'est la vie) among others. As a broadcaster, Mr. Nerenberg produced and directed television series and documentaries in a wide range of genres and on a great variety of subjects -- from civil war in Central America, to the crisis in South Africa's Apartheid system.
Karl works in both English and French, and can be reached at karl@rabble.ca")
Sustainable transport key to saving the planet
Transport of Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age
(EarthScan,
2009;
$65.00)
Australian transportation planner Paul Mees has good news for people who want real action on global warming -- good quality transit is within reach even in the suburbs. But they might have to participate in a revolt against something as reasonable sounding as "balanced transportation" first.
Transport of Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age includes a strong argument for public participation in transportation decision making. Mees claims that "citizens have a keener understanding of the need for change than transport planners, with environmental awareness particularly strong among younger residents."
Not Rex: Should public transit be free?
Should public transit be free on smog and heat alert days? What an idea. Time to get on the bus and start moving forward again.
