Archive for Portlands development

The Portlands Energy Centre is offering a one-time opportunity to help pour the concrete for its foundations.

Community Concrete Pour
Sunday, 2007 April 1, 3:27 am sharp
Portlands Energy Centre

I’m back from the PEC CLC meeting, which I was late to and so missed the fireworks.     Read more »

Last night, at the Ralph Thorton Centre, a depressing but quite possibly real future was presented for our community:

• empty (more) storefronts on Danforth, Gerrard, Queen St.E.
• the vibrancy of our community hitting all new lows.
• the average wage in the retail sector falling. Local entrepreneurs of all ethnic groups forced out of business. More pressure on government for social assistance.
• growing numbers of working-poor people who can only afford to shop at Wal-Mart.
• we can’t see them but exploited children and adults, in far corners of the world, work for pennies fabricating the items for sale at “everyday low prices”. We can’t see it, but tonnes of carbon are emitted to bring these items here.
• thousands of cars, bringing their carbon and noxious emissions, to our lovely waterfront in the Portlands.

see www.waltown.com

If you dispute the above, then please explain how ‘is our community different from many hundreds of others in North America and thousands around the world?’

One answer is that together we will force politicians at all levels of government to hear our voices, to see the big picture, say “no thank you”

There is a Wal-Mart planned for the Portlands area of our riding.

United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), Councillor Paula Fletcher and Peter Tabuns, MPP, present:

Wal-Town: The Film
Wednesday, 2007 March 14, 7 pm
Ralph Thornton Centre
765 Queen St East
(two blocks east of Broadview) Free

The director and cast will be there to discuss the effects that multinational retailers like Wal-Mart have on local communities.

Well, the Portlands Energy Centre (PEC) Community Liason Committee (CLC) has met for the first time, and as we should have expected, it’s an exercise of PEC facing off against the community under the cover of “talking”.  It was disappointing.     Read more »