Happy New Year Davenport! It is an honour to serve you as your Member of Parliament and your voice in Ottawa. This past year I focused on the issues you have told me are important: standing up for the rights of seniors; fighting for fairness for the part-time, self-employed, freelance and contract workers; advocating for [...]
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This past July our Davenport community came together again for the annual BIG on Bloor Festival. The event was a huge success and really showcased our neighbourhood, its diversity and the amazing talent and creativity of its residents. Over the course of the festival, countless Davenport residents stopped by the booth I shared with our [...]
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Clean Trains Now! Busting Myths, Facing Facts Here’s what you need to know and tell your neighbours about the issue: The Ontario Government promotes a green, modern and innovative vision of Ontario, but insists on running the new Air Rail Link (ARL) to Pearson on dirty diesel fuel. Why? Myth:Electric trains are just too expensive. [...]
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By: Kate Kelland, Reuters LONDON- Diesel engine exhaust fumes can cause cancer in humans and belong in the same potentially deadly category as asbestos, arsenic and mustard gas, World Health Organization experts said on Tuesday. In an announcement that caused consternation among car and truck makers, the France-based International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), [...]
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Residents in Davenport and West Toronto are concerned about the Provincial Government’s plan to run dirty diesel trains through their communities from Union Station to Pearson Airport. On April 28, 2012, Andrew Cash, Member of Parliament for Davenport, and Jonah Schein, Member of Provincial Parliament for Davenport, hosted the Clean Trains Festival. Hundreds of Toronto [...]
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Residents of Davenport and other areas around the Air-Rail Link tell Premier Dalton McGunity what they think of the plan to run dirty diesel trains through their neighbourhoods. Produced by Wildrun Productions (www.wildrun.ca)
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Are you worried about the plan to run 300 dirty diesel trains per day through our community? Come out and join me, Jonah Schein and your neighbours when we host our community festival in the beautiful park space along the tracks. Our federal and provincial governments need to realize that clean, electric trains are better [...]
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In the case of the air-rail link being built from Pearson airport to Union Station, the very folks who through their taxes are helping to pay for this service have to live through the disruptions of it being built, and have to live with the health consequences of the decisions of the Ontario Liberal government, with money from the federal Conservative government, to use diesel trains instead of electric trains.
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