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| Lineup at a target store today |
As posted yesterday, the forerunner Target stores in Milton, Fergus and Guelph have opened this morning with much concern about prices. The linked CTV story speculates about a “price war” because of the Target impact. The Comments on this story are fun to read as dizzy people worry about American imperialism and “human rights violations” as a consequence of Target opening in Canada. Woo. CTV
The new home of Gyro Hyundai across the street from parent Gyro Mazda is taking shape at the corner of Laird Drive and Industrial Street. The modern sales and service centre will add quite a nice “we’re-in-business” feeling to Laird Drive. South Bayviewites can only hope this Hyundai dealership is a harbinger of more new car business on Laird. East central Toronto is very poorly served by the automakers. Gyro Hyundai is said to be looking at an opening later this year. Previous posts.
Admitted “intellectual” Deborah Coyne is profiled here and drops the word that while she is running for leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, she also has plans to contest the new riding of Mt. Pleasant in the 2015 general election. Mt. Pleasant will extend west from Bayview Ave. and include Bennington Heights, which was formerly part of Don Valley West. It also would include Moore Park and Rosedale above Rosedale Valley Road. Ms. Coyne was asked in this long interview whether she found it awkward running against Justin Trudeau since her daughter is Mr. Trudeau’s half sister. She said no. She is the author of a biography A Life Devoted to Building a Better Canada in which she touches on her relationship to former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, and the daughter she had with him. Story
The federal Liberal Party has held its second last leadership debate in Halifax with the front runners once again trading personal barbs. Marc Garneau worked his thesis that Justin Trudeau is full of platitudes with no substance. Trudeau says he is proud of his “positive” campaign and called Garneau negative. Observers seemed to feel that the the contenders generally ducked the big issues. Michael Den Tandt, writing for Postmedia, feels Trudeau has it locked and made the cheeky suggestion that if Trudeau is ever elected Prime Minister he will behave somewhat like Stephen Harper. Said Den Tandt: “Neither Trudeau nor his people will concede this. But Grit economic policy in 2015 is liable to look something like Harper economic policy — save for tweaking and packaging. Why? Because red-meat rhetoric aside, Harper & Co. haven’t been much interested in bucking centrist public opinion, either. If popular sentiment leads policy, and sentiment is broadly centrist, then the “new” Liberal party’s policies will be broadly centrist, with a socially progressive inflection. It’s simple logic”. 
