Tag: Toronto

There’s a reason they call the Toronto night bus the vomit comet

September 14, 2011

Toronto Executive Committee will soon consider eliminating Toronto’s vital night public transportation service.  (Robin Rowland) Memo to: Toronto Mayor Rob  Ford, the Executive Committee and TPS Chief Bill Blair The Toronto Transportation Commission calls the overnight bus service the Blue Night Network.  But for more than 30 years the outbound buses that move out of […]

The G20 and the police. A massive intelligence failure

June 29, 2010

 Two days after the G20 disturbances in Toronto, it is clear, just from the statements made by police (not demonstrators nor lawyers nor journalists) that there was a massive failure of intelligence by the Integrated Security Unit. That failure of intelligence lead to unjustified mass arrests, imprisonment, and according to a growing number of reports, […]