Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Didn't take long

The feds came through with $600 million last week for LRT and the jury decided on the winning design from the International Design Competition for Lansdowne. You would think that there would be universal cheers from City Hall (Doucet excepted because he only cheers when he wins) but no.

Morality Mayoralty candidate Cullen has decided that the transportation study for the Lansdowne project is wrong.  Surprise, surprise.

For ten days every year, says the study, the traffic around Lansdowne will increase by 120 vehicles, each way, per hour. Not possible says Cullen. I suppose that he will tell us that it is more like 120 million vehicle per hour, or something.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Afghanistan too long?

If there was ever an indication that we have been in Afghanistan too long, it was given a face in today's Ottawa Citizen newspaper. The report of the death of Sgt. Martin Goudreault, killed by an IED, was a side column on page 3. It garnered less inches than a report on the Cons getting tough, yet again, on immigration.

When the death of one of our men or women becomes a page 3 subject, then it is time to come home.