Originally Posted by Lady Luna

The Mayor of Mississauga is one neat lady! American politicians could learn a few things from her.

Originally Posted by White Rabbit

That old hag represents everything that is wrong with municpal politics.

If you follow urban density, urban transit or urban tax issues, Hazel is a monster.

She is the queen of the tax-subsidized sprawling suburbs and the master of playing the 'begger-thy-neighbor' approach to local government.

Hardly worthy of praise. I'd say she's a corrupt (*)(*)(*)(*)(*) in the pocket of the development industry which practically owns Mississauga (which is one giant sprawling ugly suburb).

Hazel is of course the main roadblock (and has been for decades) to any kind of needed reforms in Mississauga. She's also particularly toxic regarding regional transportation issues and one of the main reasons the GTA's regional public transit system sucks so bad - Hazel is basically against public transit.

Originally Posted by Jazz

Sorry, Rabbit... I can tell you would like to have a discussion over Hazel, but I don't live there and have no knowledge about the failures you speak of. All I can say is, if someone gets reelected 11 times there can't be much wrong with the policies of that person.

Remember, she also said there was no time to retire, because so much still needed to be done. I believe she mentioned transit improvements.

Allow her a few more years to catch up on your complaints!!

Originally Posted by Jazz

All I can say is, if someone gets reelected 11 times there can't be much wrong with the policies of that person.

Originally Posted by Jazz

I think I will use this thread to line up all the great Canadians I come across or hear about.
Just now I saw this in my news headlines:

First female commander takes control of warship

A 20-year veteran of the Canadian navy became the first woman to take command of a warship on Tuesday when she took the HMCS Halifax out on the water during an early morning news conference.

Cmdr. Josee Kurtz, who joined the Canadian Forces in 1988, is the eleventh commander of the frigate.

"This is probably one of the best days of my life," Kurtz told reporters earlier at HMC Dockyard in Halifax before she took the vessel into the harbour.

Kurtz began her career as a navigator, and became a navigation instructor in the mid-1990s.

She is also trained as a weapons and combat officer.

Kurtz most recently served as the executive officer aboard the HMCS Ville de Quebec from 2007 to 2009.

During that time, the frigate was deployed with the Standing NATO Maritime Group 1, and took part in an anti-piracy mission to escort a shipment of United Nations food aid to Somalia.

On Tuesday, Kurtz told reporters that her crew does not seem bothered by her gender and said women have become more accepted into navy culture since she joined the service.

More than 200 sailors, including 15 women, make up the crew of the Halifax.

The frigate is set to begin technical training exercises before it undergoes a major refit in 2010.

Kurtz's husband, John, was a naval officer with 20 years of service. He retired to care full time for the couple's daughter, Dominique.

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc...mmander_090407
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Great story! Nice husband!!

Did we beat the Americans with this "First"?

Originally Posted by Wowwww

Here are some other great Canadians:

Robert Pickton
Clifford Olson
Paul Bernado
Karla Homolka

Originally Posted by Wowwww

Here are some other great Canadians:

Robert Pickton
Clifford Olson
Paul Bernado
Karla Homolka

Originally Posted by wyly

then there those great americans with which we can't compete...just from the ones I recall,

Ted Bundy
Gary Ridgeway
Jeffery Dahmer
Kenneth Bianchi
Angelo Buono
Carl Panzram
Albert Fish
John Wayne Gacy
Henry Lee Lucas
Ottis Toole
David Parker Ray
Herman Mudgett
Lt. William Calley

there are many more

Originally Posted by wyly

then there those great americans with which we can't compete...just from the ones I recall,

Ted Bundy
Gary Ridgeway
Jeffery Dahmer
Kenneth Bianchi
Angelo Buono
Carl Panzram
Albert Fish
John Wayne Gacy
Henry Lee Lucas
Ottis Toole
David Parker Ray
Herman Mudgett
Lt. William Calley

there are many more

Originally Posted by Wowwww

Here are some other great Canadians:

Robert Pickton
Clifford Olson
Paul Bernado
Karla Homolka

Originally Posted by Wowwww

I choose to play the "off topic" card!