Archive 1997-2016
Any O-Train wayfarer will have caught sight of the image. One in 10 bystanders stop and seem to contemplate its design and meaning. Two posters, each depicting silhouetted human forms, one emblazoned with the word “transport,” the other “education.” The meaning of either is unclear, but, as the posters indicate, they are both a part of The People’s Plan, a concept that remains just as unclear.
It’s no mystery why “let’s go out for a Sunday night on the town” is uttered by very few lips, if any, in this city.
A local lobby group wants politicians to pay for broken promises, writes Clare Demers
Small business owners surely felt stung after learning Mike Harris gave a tax break to professional sports teams, days before leaving office. It was yet another corporate welfare package. But this time, it was delivered by the very revolutionary who had railed against such largesse. Common sense prevailed when Harris’s successor Ernie Eves quickly overturned it.