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Morning Brew: June 28, 2006
Your morning news roundup for Wednesday, June 28, 2006:
He's no Christopher Reeve, but Brandon Routh is lighting up the big screen in Toronto with today's release of Superman Returns.
David Miller gets a boost of power from City Council. That Eye Magazine cover of him last election posing as Superman may not be far away. (Watch out Brandon Routh.)
A new Ontario airline is ready to launch its new schedule, and Air Canada is probably already plotting how to drive it out of business like it has to most other airlines in this country.
The NBA picks a World Cup day off in order to hold its entry draft, meaning more people will probably tune in to see the Raptors draft the next Vince Carter. Or Rafael Araujo.
Tell your friends in Barrie that car pooling just got taken to the next level: Greyhound has decided to pick up where the province's transit systems are failing and will be busing 1,000 drivers from Barrie to Toronto every day.
Jane Pitfield didn't see any homeless people in New York on her recent visit. I'm guessing she didn't venture to far out from the West Village.
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Funny how since Air Canada pulled their flights how the city hasn't been resounding with cheers for how much quieter it is - maybe because in the scheme of things a limited number of turboprop flights really makes no difference compared to the 747s heading into Pearson and the thousands of vehicles on the Gardiner. Expanding GO Transit would do more for a quieter waterfront than closing the airport ever will.<p>
Deluce's Toronto-built aircraft are faster and carry twice as many passengers as AC-Jazz so one can hope that Air Canada will in turn upgrade their fleet and preserve jobs at Bombardier Downsview. But unfortunately the Community Air supporters who are listed as political contributors to Mayor Miller's 2003 campaign won't be pleased.
Both the lawsuit and Miller's 2003 contributors are available online if you google around. Personally I think the lawsuit is a mistake which will do TPA more harm than good but reading the supporting materials I guess I'd feel litigious if I had Community Air's "publicity" targeted against me.<p>
I find it so odd that Richard Daley's actions in bulldozing Meigs Field are so lionised in Toronto. He left aircraft owners stranded (they had to get special FAA permission to depart using a taxiway) and led to the FAA fining the City the maximum allowable penalty because the City did not give notice of its intentions. CBS Chicago reported in Nov 2005 that the decades of airport operations will mean that converting Meigs to a park is going to cost a fortune - certainly more than David Miller's toonie (again).
<a href="http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id=17976@wbbm.dayport.com&cid=8">http://cbs2chicago.com/video/?id=17976@wbbm.dayport.com&cid=8</a>
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The end did not justify the means - if Lastman had the power to bulldoze things he didn't like we would have been rightly screwed.<p>
btw - I don't work for TPA, Porter or any other connected parties in case anyone is wondering.
NYC has about 8 million people & counts 30,000 homeless while Toronto has 4.5 million & we counted 5,000 homeless, so they're out there.
Or was your point just that NYC is better at hiding them?
1. Cathy Crowe says so.<br>
2. Cathy Crowe told the homeless and people who work with them not to co-operate with them.<p>
So now the beancounters at City Hall can budget for fewer homeless than there are and the resultant service cuts will mean OCAP and TDRC will go ballistic. Nice going.<p>
Miller and Pitfield - a city of 3 million and this is the best we can do? But then the US has 300 million and when they get it down to two contenders the choice is frequently worse...