Former PM Paul Martin

Former prime minister Paul Martin has spoken again in favour of the deficits that the incoming Trudeau government plans to run. Mr. Martin, a multi-billionaire shipping heir, said it is a good idea to have deficits in order to invest in infrastructure and help kickstart the economy. Martin says it is important to spend money in areas that will give future generations a better life. According to the longtime finance minister, these include infrastructure, education and research and development. Martin says not investing in the future is a guarantee of ongoing deficits. Trudeau said during the recent election campaign that a Liberal government would post three annual deficits of up to $10 billion to spend money on infrastructure.

Read it and weep. The government is said to have paid both high school and elementary unions as much as $2.5 million for delays because of a “new system”  God help us. Spectator 

Further information from Stephen Hewitt of Manor Road United Church about the Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, October 28 from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. The church will share renovation plans, which require site specific amendments to City of Toronto By-laws. Councillor Josh Matlow (Ward 22) will be there to provide an update on a new park that is being established on land that the City is acquiring from the Church.

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Manor Road United Church is at 240 Manor Road East. Parents are wlecome to bring children. The church will have activities provided by the Children’s Ministries Leaders to keep them busy.

It starts with incredibly intelligent teenage students doing things that are stupid. Three young men attending a Long Island high school broke into the school and installed software in computers which ;permitted them to obtain passwords and log-in credentials. This permitted them to change grades among other things. One young man changed one of his own grades from 94 to 100. Crazy.

The new traffic lights at the corner of Millwood Rd. and Sutherland Drive have a 20 second green for vehicles on Sutherland and a three-and-a-half minute green for traffic on Millwood. This arrangement would be more difficult than it seems for Sutherland traffic except that there is very little through traffic on the street. Most vehicles turn right on the red light and that includes the 88A bus. However, the 88B service must turn left to get to McRae Dr. and over to Wicksteed Ave. Passengers are in for a long wait it seems. Left turns are kept waiting for three-and-a-half minutes. For pedestrians, the new signals are a combination of actuated and semi-actuated. Those wishing to cross Millwood have to push the button to get a Walk signal. Otherwise, anyone waiting there is shown a Do Not Walk signal. Either way they have to hustle across in 20 seconds. Those crossing Sutherland, on the other hand, get the Walk signal regardless of whether the button is pushed. The wonders of traffic engineering

Some Collingwood residents are upset because OPP apparently chose to run over a coyote which they deemed to be dangerous. They then shot the animal. The incident was captured on video in darkness by a man who says he thinks the animal was in fact his blind and deaf dog. It isn’t clear why this question might be in doubt. Police are said to have the carcass in refrigeration. Police were called to a location in Collingwood after dark by someone who said a large coyote was roaming the streets. The police say that “for the safety of the community police had to put down this animal.” The incident occurred October 19, ,2015. CP24 

The Jays are stinging tonight from a 14-2 loss in Game Four of their best of seven playoff series with the Royals. Their pitching was sad to be sure and stalwart R.A. Dickey got chased out early after letting in five runs. Have the comeback boys got three straight in them against KC?

From the western reaches of Spadina Fort York to the Orange bastion of Ossington Ave. to the eastern stronghold of the Danforth, the New Democratic Party put up a heck of show but then just crashed. Liberal Adam Vaughan trounced Olivia Chow. In the early days of the campaign Chow was way ahead of him. Crystia Freeland beat Jennifer Hollett fairly handily despite the nearly 15 percent lead Hollett held at one point. In the remnants of Jack Layton’s former seat, the new riding of  Toronto Danforth, a Liberal squeaked by the NDP candidate. Why? Olivia Chow had it right when she said the reversal started two or three weeks before election day. Was that when Justin Trudeau started to talk about how he would spend money instead of try to be like Stephen Harper? What was the homing device embedded in voters heads? Cynics will say the pitta-pat factor of Mr. Trudeau’s handsome visage finally kicked in with some women (just saying) although he was still up against the same shaggy Thomas Mulcair who had been his opponent for months. Whatever the key, it caused a crucial opening up in the polls some ten to 12 days before the vote. Within 48 hours of the Liberals showing a slight lead others said the Conservatives were ahead. How wrong they were. And yet, the election day national pattern of voting sympathy is eerily familiar to the results when the Conservatives were elected. The Liberals won 54 percent of the seats (184) with 39 percent of the vote. The Conservatives garnered 32 percent of the vote to win 99. These numbers represent a fortuitous sprinkling of winning ballots for the Liberals in all the right places. The NDP, which had led the polls at one point,, won only 19 percent of the popular vote.