Worker killed, subway service curtailed

Another day, another closed rail line.

Stranded commuters struggled to get to work.

Tara Kubicki, 31, found her bus stop was so crowded she ended up walking north and catching a bus to Eglinton, which took her an hour.

Yet another example of how rail is only efficient if it’s working, because if it’s not, nothing moves.

It’s time to give up on the subway and streetcar pipe dream and switch to busways and widened roadways.  Cheaper and far more flexible.

Feed the pidgeons

See where appeasement leads?  To more chaos.

Indian protesters vowed to keep the main CN rail line between Toronto and Montreal closed for another day despite a court injunction and a personal plea from OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino to end the blockade.

I can only imagine the millions of dollars this is costing the railways, and all the businesses they supply.

Sun

Since we’ve had almost no sun this month, I thought I’d post this simple picture to remind you all what the yellow ball in the sky looks like.

Ban April

Thanks to Hitler, I think it’s time to ban the month of April, or at least the days in between his birth and death (Apr 20-30).

Yet another catastrophe.

Students and faculty at Virginia Tech University were in shock Monday after a gunman shot and killed at least 31 people and injured 28 during the most deadly shooting spree in U.S. history.

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On the Nappy Heads

Mark weighs in on the Imus non-event that swept across America last week.

I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where a white guy can be fired for racist remarks without his employers having to prostrate themselves before clapped out professional grievance mongers and shakedown artists. But dream on.

Buzz makes sense

Buzz has started making more sense since getting booted from the NDP.

The Canadian Auto Workers union targeted Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the &#xu2;01Cinsanity&#xu2;01D of the environmental movement Friday as delegates talked strategy with an election ever looming and an Ontario provincial vote less than six months away.

Unfortunately it’s the misguided electorate who are driving the politicians into green insanity.

Gov’t will kill GM

More proof that the government subsidizes GM on one hand, and then hobbles it with the other.

General Motors has put a hold on future rear-wheel-drive vehicles

This is especially bad news for Oshawa.