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I just got my renewal and it's going up $5/month. I think the NDP are very naive if they believe these savings will be seen anytime soon as well.

I missed these 905ers can pay for transit, and do. But the Big Move requires $2 billion a year for 25 years. I'd argue the vast majority of the improvements are in the 416 and certain areas of Mississauga and Brampton. Revenue tools that are blanket flat charges like a 1% increase to the HST or a 10¢/litre rise in the gas taxes would be unfairly collecting these funds based on where the improvements are focused. Well if you don't own a car you won't be on the hook for much. HOV lanes aren't in the 416, Wynne has said she won't ask to have property taxes increased and if you live and work in Toronto you won't care that the DVP and Gardiner might be tolled. Also Stintz doesn't want a fair surcharge on the TTC.

I can't find a story about this, but I heard it on the radio. Apparently Rob wanted to do one of those lame bets with the Mayor of Boston over the Playoff series and the mayor has turned him down cuz, you know, Boston has other things going on. Wow Rob. Who bets on a first round playoff series? Especially when you're playing a town that just had a terrorist attack. That deserves a huge facepalm.

You're right Reimer is an unproven quality. But the B's have lost 7 of their last 9 Well depending on if Bozak is back or not you'll have Kessel, Bozak and JVR on one line and Kadri, Lupul and Kumalin on a second line. Both very potent lines. Also I don't know how you get the fact the Leafs have a bad Defense. Their Penalty Kill is one of the best in the league. Again I don't know if they'll win, but I don't think they'll be run out of the building. I remember last time they were in the playoffs they played Chara's Sens team who had dominated them that season and the Leafs killed them in the first round.

Well is there a huge demand for an efficient international train service? Also the price is rather prohibitive. It's cheaper to fly across the country than take the train. Who's fault is that? I guess Euros haven't embraced the joy of a roadtrip, cuz that's how I'd get to NYC if I couldn't fly.

Reimer has been hot for much of the season. Rask really isn't a proven playoff goalie. The Leafs fate will depend on seeing of Kessel, Kadri and Lupul can be the goal scorers they've been at parts this season.

We learned from details related to the terrorist plot that a lot of that time is spent crossing the boarder getting everyone to clear customs. Also different crew have to come on to take over the train in the US. Europe is essentially one large country, no real borders. Also are you taking into consideration how many stops are made? BTW a lot of the Big Move plans aren't really addressing expanding transit to the suburbs but fixing transit in urban areas where use is already at saturation. These revenue tools will just make driving harder.

The Liberals announced a plan to do this yesterday. I hope the NDP won't allow Wynne to institute certain revenue tools that kills drivers across the province. A 10¢/litre hike to the gas tax will be killer for drivers across the province and will completely wipe out any gain from this gesture from the government.

She is not. Now Danielle Smith ain't bad.

Sure and last week I heard that GO is doubling service on the Lakeshore Line. There are plenty of projects going on all the time. But this Big Move is just a way to bleed money from the suburbs to fund (mostly) TTC improvements. It's regional pooling again.

People see Boston v Toronto through the past. In recent season the Leafs have been absolutely owned by them. All the games this year were close and the Leafs aren't pushovers like they were under Ron Wilson. Also, I give Riemer the edge over Tukka Rask.

That could be more appealing. (if you could trust this government not to spend the money on canceling gas plants) But I think it would be an election loser for the Liberals. Someone else in the province would see a hike in the HST solely funding the Big Move which is a Toronto project mostly.

I'm suggesting people who stand to gain most from these proposed moves should pay more. Some of these tools are plain regressive or should I even say punitive to drivers in the 905. When you have Karen Stintz opposing a surcharge on fares and Wynne saying Property Taxes won't be used to fund the Big Move, it becomes evident that the people that benefit most from the Big Move, won't be asked to pay for it. Also no where on the list of Metrolinx revenue tools are distance tolls for fares. Apparently the TTC has a flate rate, it costs the same to go across the city as it does to go 2 blocks. That makes no sense. GO charges you more if you're coming in from Hamilton compared to coming in from Mississauga. Especially with Presto coming in, it'd be easy to charge people using zones like they do in London.

I'm still waiting for teachers to demand EI for the Summer.

I'm sure this is Mike Harris' fault somehow.

From what I hear people that work in the oil fields . . . I know this will be shocking to some. . . get another job during the offseason!!!! Perish the thought!!!!!

Here's an interesting column by Warren Kinsella. He contributes to Sun Media even though he's a raging Liberal. http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2013/04/20130430-071127.html I like how people who oppose Sun News think people aren't critical enough to decide their own politics and believe Sun News is just brainwashing people. Pretty pathetic stuff.

It would appear my vacation from this site over April was due to my vitriolic treatment of the Ontario Liberal Party. The day I discovered my unfortunate banning I was all worked up and wanted to start a thread over our new leader Kathleen Wynne telling Greater Toronto Area people the fact that she was completely drinking the koolaid from Metrolinx on it's plan called "The Big Move" It's a 25 year plan for the GTHA (Greater Toronto Hamilton Area) that's pegged at $50 billion. Of course this coming from the same people that thought canceling the Oakville plant would cost $40 million. In Ontario our premier and many other UNELECTED advocates have been trumpeting the term "revenue tools" as a way to fund this ambitious plan which essentially is improvement to Toronto Transit with some neat projects for Mississauga, Brampton and Vaughan. The rest of the "GTHA" really doesn't get much out of this plan until much later, if at all. While Wynne has said she would implement these "tools" without the consent of mayors of the region, most notably Rob Ford who rejects any levies to fund transit. The Casino will solve all of the cities problems. I clearly don't share his myopia but I'll share with you some of the "tools" Metrolinx has proposed. Also many aren't too popular. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/04/06/metrolinx_transit_taxes_rejected_by_66_per_cent_poll.html Though Wynne has trumpeted the need for Revenue Tools she has yet to come out with the ones that she prefers. The budget is coming out tomorrow though. A report today says the one she will preview is a toll on the new HOV lanes that were built on highways in the 905 (QEW, 403 and 404) Now I don't mind that but there are others that are very troubling. The most troubling is an added 10 cent/litre addition to the Gas Tax. That's insane! That drives up the cost of everything in the region, potentially the province for improvement in Toronto transit. Tolling the Gardiner and DVP is reasonable solution to Toronto's transit woes. But that's not one of the tools Toronto Transit Advocates support. They want parking levies, a hike to the HST and that Gas Tax idea I so loathe. We can debate each of these tools on their own merit but there are tools that effect people that drive in the region far more than it effects people that stand to use the transit in Toronto. IMHO some of these tools should be a non-starter for the NDP and anyone outside the 416 and immediate 905. Horvath has said she opposes adding these tools to the average Ontarian. Well she better, how can she force the Liberals to try and reduce to cost of car insurance but allow them to exponentially increase the price of driving with some of these more extreme tools. The one that's the worst is a GPS on each car that would track every km you drive no matter where you go, even if you aren't contributing to gridlock. Talk about Big Brother!

Of course. Mouse, Keyboard and Monitor computing will be around for a long while for doing actual work. But for leisure it's on a steady decline.

I think it's safe to get on their bandwagon again. 7 straight games with at least a point. Lupul and Kadri are tearing bleep up. Now they actually have some space to breath with no games until Thursday. Also their games against top teams are done. No more Pens, Bruins, Sens and only one game against the Habs (season finale) and if a playoff spot isn't secured by them they would be in major choke territory.

Base model Mac Laptops go for $1500. You can get these things called Mini Macs for a reasonable price but have to get your own Monitor, keyboard and mouse. Desktop Personal computing is going to way of the doe-doe bird. Just about everything I can do on my laptop, I can do on my Galaxy S2 LTE. And I don't have to boot up a computer. I have a 4+ year old Toshiba running Vista. I could have easily updated to Windows 8 for $40 but didn't see a point to it. After a full work day of being on a computer I don't really want to come home and sit infront of a computer. I think the future of computers would be like the Microsoft Surface. A PC with a Touch Screen. There are Chromebooks being released that are made by Google, I haven't seen one in a store yet but once the prices comes down, I might be interested.

You're probably using your PC for professional purposes. You need those monitors for a larger surface area to put all the information you might be processing. But if you're using your puter to run a program or two, surfing the web, downloading movies illegally etc you can easily function with a program that just deals with apps or panels and folders. I don't see Windows 8 being a standard for work computers for awhile. You probably don't see many company computers even using Windows 7 or Vista. The one thing I do like about Mac's OSX is that there is a lot of room to move files around easily for professional purposes. But it would be useless to me for personal purposes. It's why I laugh at people who spend 3 times the price of a PC to buy a Mac to do simple computing. "BUT IT'S BETTER! YOU'RE PAYING FOR THE QUALITY!" L-O-L!

There are ways to make Windows 8 pretty much work like Windows 7. From what I can see Windows 8 is moving personal computing into the realm of mobile computing. Windows 8 tries to make computing even simpler than iOS and Mac's OSX. From what I see, I don't think I could enjoy a computing system with Windows 8 without the ability of a touchscreen.

Andrea got what she ultimately wanted. Her justification for staying in Woodbury, with the Governor, was to ensure the "civilians" stay safe. She couldn't really adapt to the whole Darwinism that the Zombie Apocalypse is. The Governor made an excellent point that in this world you kill or you die, when you die you end up killing. I've read many comparisons to Carl's story arc to that of the Governor. I even read that he's shaping up to be like an Anikan Skywalker of the Zombie Apocalypse.