18 days ago by John Horn

Toronto: why do people love to hate it so much? So, I just completed a four-day business and pleasure trip to Toronto. Upon my return, I called, emailed and texted my friends and family here on the West Coast to re-connect and plan my week. At some point in every conversation a common theme emerged: ...

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19 days ago by RLT

To Toronto City Centre Airport (CYTZ) on the yellow Brompton bicycle. Stop in to see Sam at Druxy's, the coffee shop in the old control tower. The building is covered in mould, both the exterior and interior are badly in need of repair and refurbishment. I’m told that the roof is leaking. This is no ...

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26 days ago by RLT

An inspiring story in the Globe and Mail of how Porter Airlines took on all comers and triumphed. "Large Imperfect" Mayor Miller, former hack Adam Vaughan, and his rentamob, must be grinding their teeth. You can't keep a good man down. Bring on Air Canada Jazz and Continental Airlines.

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81 days ago by RLT

Lame duck Mayor Miller has added a third job to his portfolio as interim chief executive officer of Invest Toronto. He is already Chairman of this organisation. In the gobbledegook of management speak: "The mission of Invest Toronto is to promote Toronto as a destination for businesses to invest, gr ...

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81 days ago by RLT

I received a last-minute invite to the end-of-season baseball game at the Rogers Centre in Toronto. The Blue Jays came from behind to beat the Seattle Mariners 5-4. This is sport with a showbiz flavour.

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105 days ago by RLT

Councillor and former hack, Adam Vaughan (Trinity Spadina), one of the men who brought you the recent Toronto garbage strike, seeks to lecture others on the fine points of management. See this well-argued response from the Toronto Port Authority. You'd think that with his recent track-record that a ...

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106 days ago by RLT

To the Royal York Hotel for the Annual Meeting of the Toronto Port Authority who manage, among other things, Toronto Island Airport, this year celebrating its seventieth anniversary. The suits on the platform were attempting the impossible - that is to satisfy the congenitally dissatisfied. One hour ...

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115 days ago by RLT

We took the special express bus from Dundas West to the Ex on opening day. We queued in the sunshine to pay our $1.75 entry fee (normally $15). The city are bribing us with our own money but we pocket the insult. I wanted to see this Ford Tractor, with seventies-style clamshell body, which tows a ro ...

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117 days ago by RLT

In the week when the Canada Line railway opened in Vancouver, connecting the downtown to the airport, I spotted this protest poster on Dundas West in Toronto. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty is shown as the villain of the piece. Hogtown's long running saga of a railway to Pearson Airport is mired in ...

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122 days ago by RLT

To Pacific Avenue in the Junction on the yellow Brompton bicycle for supermarket shopping at No Frills, our local groceteria. We know how to live. Feel virtuous as the front carrier on the Brompton swallows most of our shopping, while Annette carries the residue in a backpack. There is a buzz to sho ...

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