October 30th, 2009
Friday’s headlines
By Katia Snukal // 8 Comments
ONTARIO'S WORST ROADS
• Steeles Ave. tops worst roads list [ Toronto Star ]
• 'Like riding a roller coaster': Drivers rate Toronto's worst roads [ Globe & Mail ]
• City vows to fix highways to hell [ Toronto Sun ]
• Steeles Avenue once again wins the prize for Ontario's worst road [ National Post ]
TORONTO ZOO
• Zoo proposes 3.2% budget increase [ Globe & Mail ]
• Zoo faces 'blood on the floor' [ Toronto Sun ]
• Toronto Zoo defies city directive to cut budget [ Toronto Star ]
NEW DEVELOPMENT
• New life for Gardens [ Toronto Sun ]
• Hume: Trail breathes life into 'dead zone' [ Toronto Star ]
OTHER NEWS
• Annex's Ici bistro wins liquor fight [ Globe & Mail ]
• Proposed bylaw to go after illegal billboards [ National Post ]
• Is Mayor David Miller a lame duck? [ Toronto Star ]
• Smart meter phase-in sparks cost fears [ Toronto Star ]
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Not a headline here, but disappointed that the National Post lives to see another day 
Ben> Yer disappointed all those folks are out of job, that there city/arts etc coverage is all done and that now there is less competition (ie less voices) on the Toronto and Canadian media scene? Is that what you mean?
Many of those writers would rather piss on the unemployed than see tax dollars be used towards a social safety net, so it would serve them right. Also don't consider the Post a voice, more of an incoherent rant (and this is from someone with centered views who tries to hear both sides of the story).
Show me "most of those writers" Ben. Or are you just talking about the editorial page? Which is not "most of those writers".
Whoa! Why are you being such an a-hole here, Shawn!? Chill out!
Perhaps you don't remember that the Post started as Conrad Black's project with the explicit intention of being a conservative right-wing publication. Sure, over the years it's changed a bit but it hasn't shaken the public's perception that it has a conservative bias.
mark> If asking Ben to explain his generalizations, then I'm an asshole. Now you too are simplifying things. Sure, Black started the paper as a conservative voice (is that in itself evil? maybe to ideologues, but that's fine) but it also had (and sometime still has, though not as many are left) stellar writing. Did you read the Globe before the Post came on the scene? Did you read it after? The serious improvement there is because the Post came on the scene. If you want the Globe of 1997, you can have it.
Over the last decade I've known a whole bunch of people who worked at the Post -- none of them wrote conservative opinion pieces, but they sure wrote about everything else. Ben's condemning them all. So, sure, I'm happy to be an "asshole" and say "no".
Sure... I should've said 'acting like an a-hole' - I don't think you are an a-hole; you just seemed to jump on Ben a bit harshly. Now that you say you have friends who write for the Post, I see where you're coming from.
I don't think a paper having a conservative slant is "evil," but I certainly don't agree with contemporary conservativism. However, I think the conservativism of the mid-90s was rather 'nefarious' (amalgamation, cutting education and social services, etc.). And I don't think that having a political viewpoint ought to be used to dismiss someone as an "ideologue," if by that it means a person doesn't have any knowledge or opinions of their own, but just blindly follow the 'rules' of an ideology.
I've read the Globe for years now and I really don't like it anymore. I find there's too much 'lifestlye' directed to rich people - stuff that's far beyond my means!
"Properly maintained roads and bridges also mean fewer injuries and deaths, reduced environmental impact, enhanced economic competitiveness and reduced life-cycle costs to taxpayers."
I know what all the cyclists are thinking. The irony is unbearable.
Comment by Shaun
October 30, 2009 | 4:47 pm