Tag: TTC
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A Day Of Wheelchair Use
I’ve watched many Day in the Life, A Day Wheelchair Challange, and other similarity-themed YouTube videos. Not a single one of them touches on how sore, painful, and hard it is to use a wheelchair that isn’t actually built for your specific frame/person. All the people who have done the challenge who were not disabled…
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TTC workers reject contract offer
Well it does look like the TTC workers might well be going on strike once again .. though there is still time for it not to happen, but from the sounds of things, it doesn’t look good.
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Air Canada in the news…
Well apparently Air Canada lost the legal action that was taken against them from a Disabled person who tried to use their services. According to an article in the Toronto Star entitled “Airlines told to drop extra charges for disabled” according to the STAR “In a resounding victory for people with disabilities, the Canadian Transportation…
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1.50 for gas? ACK!!!
According to an article in the Toronto Star entitled “CIBC sees $1.50/litre gas ‘soon’, according to the STAR “The widening demand-supply gap could push crude oil prices as high as US$150 a barrel by 2012, said CIBC World Markets chief economist Jeff Rubin, who in 2005 was among the first analysts to predict the $100-a-barrel…
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Growls at the TTC … again!
Sighs and growls big time at the TTC for what they are going to do and what they currently are doing for that matter. In an article published in the Toronto Star today entitled “Pick your poison, invites TTC: Survey to ask whether riders would prefer cuts, taxes or higher fares” the author of the…
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Baby Born on the Subway Platform
Well there has been some interesting things in the news yesterday, and one of them was that a child was “Baby born on subway platform” talk about wow. And the fact that passersby where apparently oblivious is a little shocking to various degrees, though I guess its also the fact that some just do not…