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Canada's oil imports from Saudi Arabia on the rise
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Oh yeah......................economics and affordability..........................................
are what got Doug Ford elected!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Economics and affordability will - in the end - DOOM ALL LIE-beral policy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
UNLESS Our idiot Boy can figure out how to engineer the political COUP............................
he has been dreaming of and figure out how to get appointed as Grand Poohbah for Life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The idiot Boy REALLY DOES THINK HE IS ENTITLED!!!!!!
Every action taken by Our idiot Boy has been designed to promote LIE-berals and their civil service union HOG allies................
along with radical socialist Quebecers and a SELECT GROUP of NON WHITE special interest groups!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All at the EXPENSE OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AS I have said before - the GRAVY IS RUNNING OUT...............................
and taking LIE-beral influence with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Consider the MASSIVE CONFLICT between LIE-beral desire that we all BE FORCED out of our cars and onto public transit.......
for the CLAIMED GOOD of the environment - but LIE-berals are REALLY FOCUSED on gravy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND NO MATTER that the existing transit is already over loaded and worn out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Even worse is the reality that any new transit that gets built - tends to come with.......................
A COSTLY SET OF DESIGN FLAWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Consider this:::::
Here is an article notable as much for what it DOES NOT SAY - more than what it does tell us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
With some comments of my own in brackets):
TTC pulls streetcars from Queen Street due to braking problems
By Kamil Karamali, Global News, November 28,
Report: a passenger bus that is parked on the side of a road: Buses have temporarily replaced streetcars on the Queen Street route as crews work to fix track problems.
The Toronto Transit Commission said it has pulled all 35 streetcars from Queen Street Wednesday because of a braking issues — and has replaced the route with as many as 90 buses.
"Initially, it was seven [streetcars], but as we continued to look at the streetcars throughout the day, the damage was found on 19 of them," TTC spokesperson, Kadeem Griffiths, said.
The TTC adds that it doesn't know what caused the problem.
(How ODD that TTC should take delivery of a bunch of Bombardier street cars and then magically star having problems with DAMAGE to the braking system???
Should we ask if it is the street car design that is WRONG?? Or has there been SLOPPY track work that is damaging the machines??)
(After all - if a driver HIT something on the road that was actually DAMAGING the machine - would driver NOT NOTICE THE THUMP??????????????)
(Shal we ask if Bombardier is SCREWING TTC yet again?? It is bad enough that Bombardier was YEARS LATE in delivering the new machines!! And WORSE YET that no sooner where the machines delivered - than TTC had to start shipping them back to get SHODDY FRAME WELDS REPAIRED!! And now we are expected NOT to be pissed and suspicious of this latest problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(That BILLION DOLLAR GRANT that Our idiot Boy Justin gave to his Quebec supporters at Bombardier DID NOT buy much good will or good work!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Griffiths said the issue is not with the main braking system, but the supplementary braking systems on the streetcars — all roughly in the same spot.
(So multiple vehilces with exactly the same damage - indicates either a car design flaw or a track installation flaw - and since the OLD streetcars did not have such problems- there is a POWERFUL TEMPTATION to assume Bombardier SCREWED US YET AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
TTC said it will inspect the tracks along the 501 Queen Street route, west of Roncesvalles, to try and determine what is causing the damage to the streetcars.
In the meantime, it has also increased the number of streetcars along 504 King Street and 506 Carlton so that commuters have more options in case they don't want to use the buses.
"It takes about three-ish buses to replace one streetcar, so we know it's going to be a little bit crowded especially during peak rush hour," said Griffiths.
"So we've increased the number of streetcars on parallel routes."
The TTC is asking commuters for patience as the transit agency tries to resolve the issue.
(OH GREAT!! Our LIE-beral overlordfs are making comprehensive plans to FORCE US ALL to take public transit that is ALREADY OVER LOADED and which is becoming MORE RAMSHACKLE and unreliable by the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(In related news -OC Transpo - the Ottawa public transit system despaired of getting anything useful from Bombardier- OCTranspo LEARNED from the TTC MESS -and thus they went to a French maker for their LRT cars - and of course there are now MULTIPLE HOURS LONG DELAYS as the new car doors will not close properly and the cars WILL NOT MOVE - while the doors are open!!!!!!!!!)
(TTC is watching the OCTranspo MESS with interest as Metrolinx has the intention of dealing with the same French company in future and BY-PASSING Bombardier completely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(IN other Transit news- TTC is looking at ways of SERIOUSLY ALTERING and improving its PRESTO card fare payment system!! Presto was chosen by TTC over the protests of many citizens who cited PRESTO as THE LEAST RELIABLE and most costly of several options - yet TTC went ahead anyway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(And now the TTC has essentially admitted the critics were RIGHT - as TTC flounders with broken Presto card readers and MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in lost fares!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Griffiths adds there is no time line for when the streetcars will be back on track.
(Why should we expect a swift solution to ANY GOVT ISSUE?? After all E-health IS STILL FARTING AROUND - trying to produce a useful computerized health record system and God only knows how much they have spent thus far!!!!!)
(Or we could look at the Phoenix pay system - basically conceived of during the Harper Conservative years and then designed and built by our vaunted civil service union HOGS - and then Phoenix was completed and implemented under Our idiot Boy and his loser LIE-berals -WITH OUT ANY preliminary testing and WITH OUT any back up plan if anything went wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(Our HOGS have been screwing around with Phoenix for FOUR YEARS and still cannot fix their Frankenstein PAY MONSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(One has to ask if LIE-beral govt EVER GETS VALUE FOR MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
(In the latest news- TTC has spent SEVERAL DAYS testing the new cars and tracks ................................
with specialized sensor gear - AND HAVE YET TO DETERMINE the origin of the brake problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
In many ways, the muni and province have been supporting the extreme high cost of housing in select cities/munis.
For the average person, home ownership in these cities is a pipe-dream at best and really only accessible to offshore money (thinking YVR in particular)... This demographic won't care so much about the property taxes (and other prov taxes) so much.
Despite many of these properties remaining vacant for much of the year, the muni wins as they still collect property taxes (school taxes, etc) where these people don't put any strain on the water system, roads or schools, etc.
At any rate, based on the actions of city council, it really seems that they are seeking all avenues to soak the tax base and the demographic that takes it in the neck are the middle and lower income demographics that can least afford this policy
A WHOLE LOT OF HORSE MANURE being smeared in that post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Low interest rates DO NOT make for easier home ownership!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Low interest rates TRANSLATE INTO HIGHER PRICES..........................
that cancel out any help from low interest rates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Though you ARE RIGHT that civil service union HOGS are a BIG PART of our economic problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BUT THE KEY OBSTACLE to home ownership is DELIBERATE RESTRICTION OF SUPPLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I knew an old couple who bought a house NORTH OF TORONTO................................
meaning north of highway 401 - in WILLOWDALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At the time TTC buses DID NOT RUN NORTH of Wilson Ave and York Mills Rd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anything NORTH of Wilson Ave and York Mills Rd WAS A DIFFERENT CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In 1950 Willowdale was not even part of North York!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the old couple who bought the house in 1950 were considered CRAZY..........................
because it was going to take NEARLY THIRTY MINUTES for hubby to drive into work each day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IMAGINE that - once upon a time in Toronto a 30 minute commute was ALMOST FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HELL - now it can take that long to find A PARKING PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So there is my point - LIE-beral govt has SYSTEMATICALLY DISCOURAGED any more housing......................
or new transit from being built - as much as they dared at every turn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There has been NO ROAD EXPANSION in SIXTY YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Scarborough freeway was NEVER BUILT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the Allen Expressway was KILLED OFF after only a couple of mile were built!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Toronto HAD GRAND PLANS to make up for the freeways by building LOTS of public transit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Sheppard subway line is the line to NOWHERE.............................
because it was CANCELLED AFTER ONLY 3 stops were built!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Downtown Relief Line has been talked about for SIXTY YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Toronto Silly Hall has MADE NOISES about extending the subway line to Richmond Hill........................
and I expect to live a LONG LIFE - but I DONT EXPECT to live long enough to ride the subway from Eglinton to Major Mackenzie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals are OBSTRUCTING ANY EXPANSION of our transport system because they CHOOSE NOT................................
to spend THEIR GRAVY on us undeserving peasants!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So commuters are SCREWED - unlike in the old days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Travel is now TOUGHER and housing options more RESTRICTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals want ALL THE GRAVY to BUY VOTES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And to hell with housing and commuter needs for PEASANTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And thus for many decades now it has been LIE-beral policy to jam as many people into the smallest possible area.............................
in part to save on gravy for LIE-berals...............................
and in part to FORCE a substantial reduction in OUR CARBON FOOT PRINTS....................................
SO THERE WILL BE LOTS OF ROOM for the LIE-beral and HOG carbon blowout!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIE-berals NEED their atv`s and sea-doos and flights to Florida..............................
and they NEED heat and light for their second homes in the scenic countryside............................
BESIDE AN NICE LAKE OR CLOSE TO SKIING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And they NEED those electrically powered bubble systems that prevent lakes from freezing up..............................
and damaging their costly Muskoka docks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But as far as our LIE-beral overlords are concerned..........................................
the common herd of Cdn peasants NEED NOTHING....................................
except to follow LIE-beral orders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The cost of housing is a function of LIE-beral GREED AND ENTITLEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, yeah. I've read the brochure too but the reality is that when the world price of petroleum tanks, so does the West due to your lack of economic diversity. You are still primarily a one commodity company town and stuck there for the foreseeable future.
Yes, yes - how SAD that you are right Comrade Curious..............................
the West IS still basically a one commodity town!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So WTF is wrong with LIE-berals that they want to turn the
West INTO A NO COMMODITIES TOWN???????????????
In spite of the LIE-beral PROPAGANDA - WE ARE A LONG WAY OFF.......................
from seeing any new oil exports!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Kinder Morgan pipeline WILL NOT BE COMPLETED till after.......................
the cops deal effectively with radical native protestors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The fact that there has NOT YET been any major protestor blockade REVEALS..........................
HOW LITTLE REAL WORK is being done on the pipe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NDPees and Greenies and the Bloc heads remain committed to NO PIPELINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And LIE-beral minority cannot survive without the idiot Cousins....................................
so WILL LIE-berals be prepared to cooperate with Conservatives to get the pipeline built??????????????
Especially when Our idiot Boy remains DEDICATED to his "climate emergency" HYSTERIA..........................
and remains COMMITTED to his plan to drive up the price of fossil fuel SO HIGH........................
that we Cdns STOP using it ever again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As I have said - the DO NOTHING BRIGADE is merely running out the clock...............................
in hope that a miracle will appear and save them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not true at all. You are just stuck in a hazbeen area trying to protect what no longer exists. WHere did all your car manufacturing go?
Reality is that Oil is apart of economic diversity in the West and important to the Canadian economy, where will you send your unemployed to get a job without the Oilpatch?
Yeah, we're down to only two million cars a year in Ontario ... about the same number as in Michigan.
Where did it all go?
Only 1 of the above carried the Nation through 3 recessions care to guess which one I'm referring too?
IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bombardier is NOT HIRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bombardier is SUFFERING due to its FAILURES...............................
mainly in the area of UNTIMELY production of quality transit rail cars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The SCANDALOUS Bombardier MESS with Toronto Transit Corporation,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
is ONLY THE LATEST MESS - after similar messes in New York and San Francisco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bombardier is a TYPICAL LIE-beral NO SUCCESS story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The more votes LIE-berals buy and the more grants they give out...........................
the HIGHER CLIMBS Bombardier costs and the LOWER dives their quality control!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes since the 1980 recession, especially 2008-2010 was directly responsible for carrying us through
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