Nah, people just uploaded a bunch of photos and videos of TTC types f***ing the chicken, causing management to slap wrists causing union to causing public to complain more.
Wondering how much of what I see on the globe and the star is hyperbole
This is pretty much it.
Basically, everyone was pissed at the TTC for raising fares at new year's so there was this simmering resentment lingering. The TTC guys are an old school 'Union crew' so, they have a good number of bottom-feeders who milk the system.
Combine the two + INTERNETS and you get DRAMA. I didn't give a damn, really, because it was set to blow over, but the Sun keeps looking for dumbshit to pick at (IDLING BUSES IS FRONT PAGE NEWS OMG OMG OMG) so they can be all INVESTIGATIVE and TTC management is starting to give the workers shit (some deserved, some undeserved), so now I'm mildly worried, because it's turning into this stupid escalation fight on all sides just because nobody can let go.
I haven't bothered with the Star (oh god), but the Globe seems to be mostly just playing a disinterested third party... most of their articles blandly describe the goings-on, with things like "the Sun reported blahblahblah and the TTC union has replied with yaddayadda in response". EDIT: Actually scratch that. I just saw the Globe has an article of their own about how they busted into the TTC's super secret FACEBOOK CLUB.
ROLL. EYES.
It's worth mentioning that the TTC is still the most underfunded Public Transit system of any major city on the continent and that it had been estimated that gridlock in this burg will cost us upward of 10 Billion in the next decade. Keep in mind that's not a defense of the union or the papers. That's just numbers.
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Hell, that reminds me. Anybody else see Mark Carney and the BoC's assessment of Canada's cripplingly awful productivity? It's so bad that the estimate the BoC put out was every last citizen of Canada stands to lose about $30,000 in missed gains (and some real losses) over the next decade. This doesn't even count aspects of that that were harder to quantify. That stuff ctaches my eye, because I follow the productivity story as it comes up now and again. It's going to make a lot more difference in our lives than a lot of other shit that's floating around Ottawa.
Someone put a price tag on Canadian mediocrity and man, it ain't pretty.