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Morning Brew: September 27th, 2007

Posted by Jerrold Litwinenko / September 27, 2007

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Your morning news roundup for Thursday September 27th, 2007:

As the election nears, the Liberals are considering restoring GO train service to the city of Barrie if re-elected. If there were reason to go to Barrie, I might care, but I suppose commuters working in Toronto and living in Barrie will love this idea.

Four Toronto residents are launching a class-action lawsuit against GM, Honda, Nissan and Chrysler for $2beeeellion for price fixing. How cool would it be if we all got a retro-active refund on our old cars?

Halloween is a little more than one month away, but the news doesn't get much spookier than this. The skeletal remains of executed prisoners have been unearthed at the old Don Jail site.

YouTube will be making a push for more Canadian content, striking deals with media companies like the CBC, CFL, and NHL. If I don't watch Canadian programming or sports on TV, will I be inclined to watch small, highly distorted videos on my PC? Not likely.

We're looking more and more like America. Accusations that our military is writing speeches for foreign leaders to drum up support for the Afghan mission have been followed by raids on suspected Afghan insurgents that have allegedly killed innocents. The result has been civilians chanting "Death to Canada".

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Jonathan / September 27, 2007 at 12:42 pm
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The GO train service to Barrie is already a done deal. McGuinty is just saying he will speed things up by about one-two months. Maybe it will be like how he forced open Lisgar station a month early just to beat the election. It had no finished station house, parking lot or bus loop. In other words, there was no way to access it unless you walked through a field of mud...but they had a great ribbon cutting at the entrance!

All the rest of the transit announcements he made are just repeats of an announcement from a few months ago. There was nothing new at all.
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Mark Dowling / September 27, 2007 at 03:59 pm
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The reporting on this has been very poor, how much info you get depends on which paper you read. As Jonathan said, this project has been going for some months and was supposed to be operational within three months irrespective of a McGuinty re-election.

http://www.gotransit.ca/PUBLIC/news/New_stations/newstations.htm

McGuinty is now proposing that the initial 4 trains per day would rise to 8. Of course, if transit wasn't one of the worst political footballs we have it would be the castrated-at-birth Greater Toronto Transportation Authority making these decisions.
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