Liberals keep Toronto Centre

Yesterday was the first step to having a new Toronto. It was a by-election. In this election there were 3 major parties running. The liberals who for this vote were run by the former major of Winnipeg Glen Murray. He won by getting 46 percent of the votes. In second it was the New Democrats led by Cathy Crowe who finished with 34 percent of the votes and than it was the Progressive Conservatives' Pamela Taylor who came in third racking up 16 percent of the votes. This is a big step in Toronto parliament and is good for everybody involved in parliament. Dalton McGuinty is very happy about what happened last night and says this is just one more step to building a better Toronto.

In my opinion I believe that Dalton McGuinty is right by saying that this is one more step towards building a better Toronto. Because this shows how much trust Torontonians have in Dalton McGuinty and the liberals in runnign the city. This is good because there will be less issue involving the mayor and the city since the mayor is well respect and party members are also well respected. This will open new doors for Toronto and create new opportunities or the community. I really like the Liberals, and I could vote it would be for them.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/liberals-keep-toronto-centre-in-hard-fought-by-election/article1456946/

TTC driver 7 minute coffee break

Wednesday, a new video surfaced about another TTC officer doing something stupid on the job. This time he wasn't asleep but he was taking a nice and slow 7 minute coffee break. you could see him on the video walking in to the coffee shop to sit down, go to the bathroom and get a donut and a coffee. When a rider complains about the delay you can fully see the bus driver put his fingure to his lips in a gesture to mean silent. The video was shot monday night and is didnt surface till wednesday morning, because the person who took the video asked the driver to not take a brake. The driver replied saying, "this is the 21st century kid, no the '60s, i can do whatever I want)

In my opinnion this is very direspectful for. For a TTC driver to take a seven minute break while on the job, its stupid. Like he shouldn't be stopping at all during his work time to do that. He has passengers on the bus who need to get somewhere. They dont always have time to watch the driver take a 7 minute coffee break. This is making the TTC and the city of Toronto seem very bad, first having TTC drivers kill 7 pedstrians in 9 days and now to have 2 pictures of TTC staff slacking on the job going viral. This is very direspectful to the citizens to be sleeping on the job, but its not just direspectful to us its also direspectful to the TTC. They ha ve tried so hard to be the best they can be and to be mark with this behaviour by their staff is not good at all.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/760507--ttc-driver-caught-on-break-suspended

Obama's state of the union address

In state of the union address by President Obama today, he talks about many issues and answers many questions that have been flowting around the white house. President Obama says that the recession might be over but the effects are still shown today. As 1 out of 10 Americans still cannot find a job, businesses have shuttered and home values have declined. It has also brought up the burden that American families have been dealing with for years. The burden for working harder and longer for less and being able to save enough for retirement or to help kids go to college. He brings up the issue about tuition and how its to expensive for the average American families to deal with. He explains a couple plans he has devised that will help the economy rebuild itself again. He has proposed a fee on the biggest banks, a fee to for the banks to pay back taxpayers who rescued them in their time of need.

My opinion is this, President Barack Obama needs to start acting on his promises. Do you remember what Obama said when he was running for President? That he was going to get our troops out of Iraq. Now its a year later and are our troops are still in Iraq. I dont know about you but I think he shoudl stop saying what he is going to do and actually go out and do it. He needs to realize that people voted him for president because they wanted change, they didnt want things to stay the same. I believe that Obama can change America, but he needs to try first.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/756868--text-of-obama-s-state-of-union-address