Toronto held hostage by whiney babies

The TTC is on strike. Once again the city is held hostage by a bunch of whiney babies.  Where else can you get a job that pays as much as a teacher without any education?  An oil field perhaps?  I would lvoe to do a study showing the direct correlation …

When your idiocy comes back to bite you

Tom Lukiwski, an MP from Saskatchewan was caught on tape making some homophobic remarks. “Well let me put it to you this way. There’s As and there’s Bs. The As are guys like me. The Bs are homosexual faggots with dirt under their fingernails that transmit diseases,” Lukiwski says. Now, …

Air Canada’s $25 fee is a feeble cash grab

There is an article yesterday about Air Canada beginning to charge a $25 fee for extra storm service. This is a plain and simple cash grab. Think about it. What times of the year are you liable to get caught in a storm….winter. So anyone paying for this extra service …

TTC ticket collector rakes in $100Gs last year

So there was this story on the cover of the Toronto Sun this morning. Personally I think the paper is a sensationalist piece of crap and normally isn’t worthy of anything more than a passing glance and a snicker, but this story caught my eye. It is about Candido Barreiro, …

Why Earth hour is a colossal waste of time

You have probably heard a lot of hype around this Earth Hour idea.  It started in Sydney Australia by the World Wildlife Fund.  Unfortunately it is a lot of hype around an issue that we can do very little about.  Now before you go all eco-crazy on me let me …

Another boycott response.

There is the response from Volkswagon. It might be a little bit of a double standard to my reaction to Omega but it almost reads like, “as long as our office in China opperates according to our policy, we won’t interfere.”  I also find China’s “One World, One Dream” a little …