Today I had time to read the Citizen, the Post, and the Globe, so there’s a little more variety:
- The mainstream media is really digging in to this Peterborough train fiasco, as are the blogs. The fact remains that this is simply not a transit priority for the GTA or even Ontario as a whole. What’s shocking really, though, is that not only do GO Transit, VIA Rail, and Metrolinx have no idea what’s going on, the Minister of Finance’s own office doesn’t seem to know what’s going on. His own press office has stated that the cost, service provider, and timeline are “details” to be determined at a later date. Makes you wonder what IS planned, doesn’t it? Further, any claim that he didn’t look at the ridings it touches is such a bull faced lie it actually boggles the mind. No decisions, especially pork like this are made without consideration to ridings. Never have, never will. This isn’t partisan, just the truth.
- Further, my boy Mark Holland has grabbed onto this issue and issued the following press release on the issue, here. I like his linking with the Ottawa LRT fiasco that keeps getting worse and worse.
- It’s rare that I read the National Post. Something about how they deny global warming, belittle hate crimes, and generally douche it up pretty regularly just turns me off for some reason. Today there was a typical sampling of their journalistic incompetence. First, we have the implication that Democrats are fascists by Jonah Goldberg. Then we have the publishing of a Mulroney lobbyist/spokesperson’s op-ed…fair and balanced? And further, an inciteful (vom) piece that tells us why the continued massive financial losses at GM are “not that bad.” How the delusion of easy motoring won’t die. GM will never turn it around, I predict. They are simply too late out the gate time and time again. They still can’t quite get that people want energy efficient vehicles. You can still make them look as outlandish as you want, just put a smaller engine in them. You’d swear this was brain surgery they way they conduct their business. Specifically, brain surgery in Kazakhstan.
- However, I guess just to keep a shred of integrity, there were two interesting articles: 1) a look at the audacity of U de Montreal for investigating the downfall of the anglophone community… umm, you made it illegal for us to exist… that’s what did it!, and 2) John Ivison, who almost regularly seems impartial (quite a feat for a paper of this quality) discusses how Harper is slowly turning the federal government into a clearing house.
- And I’ll cover the Ottawa news tomorrow AM. Good night folks.
