Preville on Politics
Get your TTC strike rebate now!
Posted on April 30, 2008 by Philip Preville
Attention all riders! The TTC is offering pass holders up to $9.50 as a refund for the two days of travel lost to the strike. The litany of remaining perpetual problems—poor service, overcrowding, et cetera—will continue to be charged at full price. That is all. Ding, dang, dong.
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Philip Preville
Veteran freelance writer Philip Preville lived much of his life in Montreal and Edmonton before he was lured, like so many Torontonians before him, by the promise of more work and a better living. A National Magazine Award winner and former Canadian Journalism Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Massey College, Preville writes Toronto Life’s politics column. He lives with his wife and one-year-old son in Riverdale, just close enough to the Don Valley Parkway that he can hear it when he steps outside his house—but just far enough away that it doesn’t keep him awake at night. On his office wall hangs a 1938–39 press pass belonging to his grandfather, Elias Gannon, who wrote for the Montreal Star.
Latest blog entries:
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