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Tried to download apps. Wouldn't happen. Checked help and found Kindle Fire is not on the list of supported Android apps. Did find I could read TTC tweets on Twitter, though.

I like Nextbus.com. I'll check it when I'm in Toronto.

Yeh, if they could shoot straight. But they have no skills with firearms, so bystanders are highly likely to be victims along with any "trash" taken out. Far better if trained policemen did the shooting. But citizens think it is terribly wrong for a policeman to be an executioner. Far better...

Kindle Fire does run Android. So there's a chance I can use the app.

Uh, wait, is that historian saying Britain won the War of 1812? I think Andrew Jackson might quibble with that interpretation. Yeh, no doubt there were Americans who thought having an ally of the Crown perched on our northside was not desirable. But after the initial attempt, there was no...

Doubt those apps run on the Kindle, but maybe I should check before I make assumptions.

Anyone use social media to help them in riding TTC? I discovered TTC had a Twitter feed and signed up. I don't live there, but since my Kindle can do social media, I'm gonna be glad to read the updates when I visit.

Maybe a Canadian can explain to me why Canada makes a big deal out of The War of 1812. It was started to punish Britain for violations of international law. It was ended in New Orleans. It has never been so important to Britain or the USA, the principal combattants. So why is a third party...

All those Kim have been fat turkeys. But I still don't think they have the lifestyle of Donald Trump.

Um. Not a simple function. Look at the airlines. Jet fuel goes up, tickets go up but also profits go down. Do people fly less? Not that I can tell. Also, pricing gasoline higher is not like taxing petroleum. If you tax petroleum, everything that it feeds inflates. But if you selectively...

So should tourists be warned to walk down certain streets and not others? When I was there 7 years ago, I certainly was quite aware of the flurry of building going on. It has been so many decades since the John Hancock Building in Boston had this problem that I guess I thought the engineering...

143 "victims". And how many fatalities? My impression is that the shootings to fatalities ratio is very high. Like you have people closing their eyes and pulling the trigger like total amateurs.

What I want scientists to tease out is how income skew harms society as a whole. No question at all that people will PERSONALLY resent working hard for a minute fraction of what someone else gets for knowing somebody, even for screwing up companies as happened on Wall Street. But what really...

Apart from my personal bias which is to like to ride TTC because of being denied the experience due to GM destroying city systems in order to create a market for its buses, I am curious how practical the automotive life is in a city like Toronto. With the millions of people, is there really...

So I'm reading that to mean lots of bullets flying around, relatively few finding a target. I wonder what the stats say about WHY people are shooting guns. Turf wars? Personal conflicts? Street cred?

They build some of these downtown buildings in haste? http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/06/13/toronto-falling-glass.html?cmp=rss

Huh? Montreal, Vancouver, and Calgary (at minimum) have hosted Olympics. But Toronto is not "world class" enough? That's just crazy talk.

I'm not sure if I'm crazy, but it would SEEM like the health department would be making visible efforts to head off the spread of any infestation. Like providing something like the 311 number we have that links all city services so that anyone who knows of bedbugs can easily call and report the...

Saw on a weather forecast a smog warning for Toronto. Is this common at all?

Maybe the city or province should make the "mattress on the curb" thing illegal. Could the garbage collecxtion handle picking up infested mattresses? Where I live we put things like that out by our garbage can and a separate truck comes through and picks it up (along with castoff appliances...