Terry McGinn
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12 years ago @ Kingstonist.com - #ygkChallenge: Turn th... · 0 replies · +1 points
12 years ago @ Kingstonist.com - Six Questions for Mary... · 0 replies · 0 points
I'm all for making public transit work, but how about making the cost of transit fees worth the service that is provided? More routes, more frequent buses, etc, etc, etc would go a lot further to making transit work than freezing fees. I don't mind paying the price for something whose value is commensurate.
Also, since I nitpicked the other candidates on style I've gotta say that it's either "member of provincial parliament" or "member of Provincial Parliament", if you cannot choose whether or not the Provincial Parliament is a proper noun I'm not sure whether you're up to the job.
12 years ago @ Kingstonist.com - Six Questions for John... · 1 reply · +1 points
Constituents can influence their member to vote in a way that is in keeping with the views of the constituency, but it shouldn't be up to the population to teach the member of the issues. Mr. Gerretsen shows that we need not teach him about the issues faced by this city and the province. He speaks clearly and effectively and knowledgeably about the issues and speaks not only as a top-down member of a party, but as a bottom-up member of the community.
This, I think, is an important trait for a representative for Kingston.
Although he did misuse the apostrophe a couple of times... which drives me crazy!
12 years ago @ Kingstonist.com - Six Questions for Rodg... · 0 replies · +2 points
So, no, I don't think that using the "I" at least one time would have been a negative.
12 years ago @ Kingstonist.com - Six Questions for Rodg... · 0 replies · +2 points
Unless, of course he, was using the royal "we"... in which case: yikes.
And I'm pretty sure that the answer to question two got turned inside out. The Debt Retirement Charge got added in 2002... not the HST.
13 years ago @ Kingstonist.com - Literary Kingston · 0 replies · +1 points
He was born on Wolfe Island, yes, but it's not like he lived through to some ripe, old age there either. He left Wolfe Island when he was 13 and was educated abroad in the United Kingdom and France. He died in Surrey, in the UK having never returned to Wolfe Island after he left.
Mr. Allen was Kingston-area-born more precisely, I suppose. I certainly thought him relevant to the topic of Literary Kingston - whether precisely Kingstonian or only so by approximation.
13 years ago @ Kingstonist.com - Literary Kingston · 0 replies · +1 points
13 years ago @ Kingstonist.com - City Hall Clock to go ... · 0 replies · +1 points
An LED may be "electricly friendly" but that's not the only consideration for environmental friendliness. I am not a fan of light pollution, for one thing, as it has been shown to adversely effect health and it obscures the stars and negatively impacts astronomy. Also, unnecessarily replacing the four faces of the clock with something new in spite of the fact that the clock works just fine is not exactly in keeping with "reduce" (as the first of the 3 Rs).
And, of course, it will look ghastly. The city would look very, very bad if it went forward with this and then attacked CN for not maintaining the original structure of the Outer Station.
13 years ago @ Kingstonist.com - Weekly Poll: Alt Landm... · 0 replies · +2 points
I think it's pretty obvious that *the* landmark in Kingston is City Hall, but what is second to City Hall is up for grabs.
13 years ago @ Kingstonist.com - Weekly Poll: Alt Landm... · 1 reply · +1 points
A landmark is a landmark for better or worse. A gallows could be a landmark, for instance.