Yet more proof that the socialist’s hands off approach to homelessness is not working in Toronto – beggars everywhere downtown.  When my wife and I dared venture from our suburban enclave to go see a play in the downtown area, our first greeting was at the parking ticket machine by a guy looking like the picture to the left, except with his hands out.  Because I am a tough headed conservative who refuses to pay the bum tax, I issued a stern “out of change” to the bum, who then retreated to his camp on the sidewalk. 

His camp was beside another’s camp, obstructing the wheelchair access to the sidewalk’s corner.

On our short walk to the theater, another homeless person ran by, screaming, apparently for no reason.

Clearly, this is not a safe environment for most visitors, and as such, they stay away.

It’s too bad we didn’t elect a premier who’d do something about it.

Toronto’s decay continues.

One of the great things about xmas is the many light shows people put on their houses.  Around the GTA, we’ve found some great ones.  A house on Terryellen Cr. in Etobicoke has his lights hooked up to a computer – and his show goes on for 15 mins before it recycles.

Another house on Eyer Cr. in Pickering has one of the best Christmas displays in the east.

A house on Benjamin Boake Cr. in Downsview has a great display.  The paper wrote that this guy spends two weeks to build his display.

Any more good displays?  Leave a comment – and we’ll save them for next year!

I’ve said this many times before: The Toronto Sun has some of the most lucent letter writers.  It’s too bad they don’t archive their site in any way…so I have to reprint the letter in its entirety. 

For those who don’t know, Toronto cannot seem to deal with its own garbage – and has wasted untold millions studying what to do with it.  Incinerators have been an overlooked option the whole time – for no good reason other than the powerful environazis.

AMAZING! WE spend $40 million of taxpayers’ money to dump garbage in Michigan – some 2.7 million tonnes per year, or 54,000 round-trip truckloads on Hwy 401. What’s the total bill? If the money we spend for garbage trucks and that given to Michigan was spent on electricity generating incinerators, we could generate enough electricity in the GTA to cover a great deal of our electrical requirements. Incinerators are used world wide. Instead of burying garbage, creating future water problems, beating up the roads, annoying our neighbour to the south, we could use the money to generate electricity, and be productive. Incredibly, we already have an incinerator in Peel that has been generating electricity for years and hardly anyone knows it’s there. A few years ago, we wasted another $100 million looking for a landfill south of Bolton. How much more will we waste? Where is our leadership? Tell me I’m missing something?

Blaine H. Mitton

An article in the Star a few days ago went on to say how bad gridlock will be in the GTA soon. 

Without major changes, Greater Toronto’s dependence on the automobile will endure even as gridlock worsens, a consultant says.

That means much more time sitting in traffic, says a report by IBI Group.

Well, I dug up an article on Sam Cass’ Plan – a plan that would have saved most of the mess we’re in today. 

Sam Cass is a man with a plan—a vision crafted 36 years ago that would have kept traffic off city streets and running smoothly.

Ask him why we have gridlock now and he’ll give you three reasons: Bill Davis, Bill Davis and Bill Davis.

More subways to no where or billion dollar streetcar runs aren’t going to solve anything.