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Morning Brew: March 27th, 2008
Photo: "cofffffffffeeeeeeeee" by blogTO Flickr pooler petits bijoux.
Your morning news roundup for Thursday March 27th, 2008:
Canadian internet service providers are fuming after a decision by giant Bell Canada to selectively throttle down certain forms of data transfer on their shared lines (a blow to peer-to-peer bandwidth). It may soon take you several days to download the latest ripped screener, but legitimate data will also be affected.
In other net news, the internet is so overly bloated with crap and might come to a grinding halt, according to some experts.
Rob Ford's recent brush with the law is causing quite the media frenzy. The Star wins top honours for presenting a list of Ford's past controversial comments as "Outbreaks of Ford-in-mouth disease."
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TTC Strike Watch:
The Union has suggested that the April 1st deadline could be pushed back two weeks provided progress in contract negotiations is made along the way (i.e. they get their way). Union boss Bob Kinnear also hinted that work-to-rule is an option (meaning that service will be slowed intentionally). Are commuters feeling like hostages being held for ransom yet?
With renovation in mind, the TTC commission has voted in favour of abandoning the uniform tiled look, a move that is sure to cause a lot of creative innovation versus heritage preservation debate. I'm still of the opinion that this debate is premature and that money should go to fixing the functional problems with the transit system before we fight over its appearance.
The global energy awareness campaign dubbed Earth Hour has gained a lot of momentum as we near the big date. What will you be doing, in the dark, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. this Saturday?
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painful listening since Ford was hamstrung about what he
could say and Oakley wasn't having any of that.
So, here was an incompetent city councilllor being interviewed by a has-been radio personality on a radio station that's not even in the top 15 stations in Toronto.
Pathetic all round
It'd be like if you had a highway with too few lanes, too many potholes, and too many vehicles, and as opposed to spending money on what obviously needs to be fixed/improved, you instead just forced people off the highway, blamed them for the problems, and then raised taxes despite not fixing anything.
Unfortunately, nothing will change until more competition is allowed to function without being bought out.
As for TTC's decision to drop the uniform look... Good for them.
Trying to maintain a uniform look is problematic at best, especially since the tiles used once upon a time have been discontinued, and finding a suitable replacement could prove even more costly.
Secondly, perhaps either renovating or tearing down these older stations would put an end to these continuous functional problems? They're old, that happens when things get old. They also weren't designed to meet today and tomorrows needs.
Fix that, and perhaps all else will start to fall in place, neh?