The Toronto Traveler

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1) Strikes Affect the City Massively: The TTC has been on strike before; many times in fact.  During my own time in primary, middle, secondary and now post secondary school, the TTC has had at least three different strikes that I can remember off the top of my head and there were probably a number of near misses as well where the union was able to negotiate a deal with the city at the last minute in order to avoid a strike.  And those near misses were good things too, because the city is paralyzed without the TTC.  …read more

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If you read The Toronto Traveler on a regular basis, then chances are you’ve seen me refer to the city’s subway system more than a few times.  Toronto is one of those cities that would not be the same without its subway system.  Besides allowing hundreds of thousands of people the chance to get to work every day, the subway and the larger public transit network within Toronto and the surrounding area is absolutely essential for tourism in the city.  This is why …read more

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The City Playhouse Theatre is set to be host to one of the most interesting events of early 2008 when they roll out the red carpet (or rather, should that be the green carpet?) for the 2008 Green Reel Environmental Film Festival.
The festival is designed to have a number of different documentaries as well as mainstream and independent productions shown at it.  The only real requirement for a particular feature to be shown at the festival is that it needs to have an environmental theme of some kind.  When this was weighed by the directors of the festival, a list …read more

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The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC for short) is the government authority that controls and maintains the subway system in Toronto.  They are responsible for not only making sure that the current stations and trains remain in good authority, but they are also responsible for making additions whenever the funding they receive allows for it.  A full map of the subway system as it currently exists in Toronto can be found here and while understanding the system enough to be able to navigate to different places in the smallest amount of time takes some practice, there are a few things that …read more

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