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You bend to break, I did it before… – The TTC has resumed

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I hope that you commuters got to your destination as planned today because the TTC Strike is finally over. It was a hectic weekend for all of us, including myself. Everyone has got little notice that a strike was imminent. Most people have to find other ways to navigate around the City of Toronto. The good thing is that the traffic wasn’t that too busy. If I strike were to drag on towards the weekday, it could have been fatal. The provincial government had introduced back-to-work legislation (known as the Toronto Public Transit Service Resumption Act) and it only took at least half an hour to get it passed into law. You can just thank Dalton McGunity (and all the members of provincial parliament (MPPs for short) ) for their heroic actions. Every MPP has their own voice.

As for the deal, it’s now dead. The deal now goes into “arbitration” as far as I know. I want to thank all of you people for keeping up to date on what I had posted during the hectic weekend. I decided to compile all blog postings of the TTC strike so you can view it for your own pleasure. They can be viewed on these respected links:

I might plan to do my own chronicles on coping with the TTC strike soon. To finish the blog off, I’m leaving you a few TTC strike videos and two music videos by Paramore. The first one is “That’s what you get” (where this music video really fits into the TTC Strike’s scenario) and “Hallelujah” (where this music video is selected as the riders’ big sigh of relief that the strike is finally over). I hope you enjoy the music videos. Also, to give you the humour, I also included a commercial of Worlds of Warcraft featuring “Mr. T.”! Note to Bob Kinnear: “Shut up, fool!” As for Dalton Mcgunity who passed the legislation, just like Hannibal and Mr. T said, “I love it when a plan comes together.”

To top it all off, I’m leaving you a funny video from the TV show called “The IT Crowd”. This video is about the new emergency number….lol If only my friend Bobby Foley has his say about these two music videos by Paramore and that new emergency number of course….

Paramore – “That’s what you get”:

Paramore – “Hallelujah”:

TTC Strike – Video #1:

TTC Strike – Video #2:

TTC Strike – Video #3:

TTC Strike – Video #4 (a commentary by a TTC worker):

TTC Strike – Video #5 (a frustrated passenger):

TTC Strike – Video #6: The day the strike came:

TTC Strike – Video #7: Mayor David Miller responds to the strike:

TTC Strike – Video #7: The province ordered the TTC back-to-work:

Worlds of Warcraft featuring Mr. T:

The IT Crowd: New Emergency Number:

References:

http://www.ctvtoronto.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080428/ttc_aftermath_080428/20080428/?hub=TorontoNewHome

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_22102.aspx

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_22104.aspx

http://www.thestar.com/GTA/Transportation/article/419144

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=476199

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/04/28/ttcstrike.html

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