How it started.
Once upon a time there was Transit City.
It was a plan to build public transit (‘Moving Toronto Into the Future’), modest in the sense of seeming achievable in a reasonable time frame and at a feasible cost. Both levels of government, municipal and provincial, were on board and, despite a scaling back of projects by the province in the face of the 2008 recession (brewing bad blood between Queen’s Park and City Hall that would open the door to bad faith actors intent on killing the proceedings), work was begun in 2009. Continue reading
A theory:
We here in the developed west possess such a broad swath of personal, individual freedom that some of us search desperately to uncover and expose any perceived encroachment on those declared rights and freedoms. Continue reading