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in her own words

Stuck in traffic in Transportation City

"Send in the clowns

Don't bother they are here."

Stephen Sondheim from the 1973 musical 'A Little Night Music'

As a transit rider and taxpayer in Toronto, I write of our right to moral outrage. The events since the October 25 municipal election have left me reeling -- from the Ringling Brothers pomp and circumstance of Don Cherry's inauguration of Rob Ford as mayor of our once progressive city, to the new regime's attempted transit fee hike and service cuts, and to the higher personal income tax garnered to subsidize corporate tax cuts, our political arena has become a three-ring circus.

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in his own words

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.

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Peggy Nash

Electrifying grassroots organizing

By Peggy Nash
| September 29, 2009

Looking for inspiration? Check out the Clean Train Coalition, a grassroots community movement in Toronto dedicated to clean air, good public transit and fighting against dirty, polluting diesel trains.

On Saturday, hundreds of CTC supporters created a Human Train from Weston to Queen St. to protest plans by Metrolinx, the Ontario Government's transportation agency, to run polluting diesel trains along the rail corridor from Union Station to Pearson Airport. This is a fun, funny, creative movement that is determined to protect the quality of life along this rail corridor. Check out some of the YouTube postings.

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Pina Belperio

Whistler's parking woes

By Pina Belperio
| June 26, 2009

If you thought Whistler was expensive before, things are about to get even pricier. Pay parking has arrived in the resort. The new fees are not sitting well with locals and tourists and are only fueling mounting anti-Olympic sentiments.

User pay parking had been on the books for some time, but it's no coincidence that it's being unraveled in time for the Olympics. Most business owners say they were never consulted prior to pay parking being instituted.

I find it ironic that over $650 million was been spent on upgrading the Sea to Sky Highway and expanding the "vehicular conduit," yet there's no place to park when you arrive.

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