Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports, and culture and is one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Toronto is an international centre for business and finance. Generally considered the financial and industrial capital of Canada, Toronto has a high concentration of banks and brokerage firms. From CP24, today: An investigation into a 2022 Toronto ferry boat crash has uncovered a number of safety deficiencies that could have led to a dire situation in other circumstances. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) says its investigation found a number of issues, particularly around passenger safety and emergency preparedness. The … Continue reading Affluent Toronto’s ferry sails with half the crew CalMac requires on a vessel half the size and 20 are hurt in collision but had there been a fire…..

Imagine any of this happened on a CalMac ferry. Today, from https://www.ekathimerini.com/: A fight broke out on a Greek passenger ferry travelling from Crete to Athens, state-run broadcaster ERT reported on Monday.  The brawl is thought to have erupted when a passenger complained to a crew member about the on-board toilet facilities during the eight-hour journey from Hania to Piraeus port. The report did not clarify if the facilities were shut or not working.  The crew member attempted to calm down the passenger but the argument soon spiralled out of control and the two men came to blows. A second … Continue reading Greek ferries – one passenger pushed off to his death, fourteen arrested over a fight, another fight over the toilets and a car full of passengers nearly in the soup as captain fails to dock properly

Anonymous Pre the General Election, Keir Starmer was never away from Scotland, same Scotland that he said was at the heart of his government, so since the GE how many times has he, Keir Starmer, been up to visit Scotland ? More than before the UK GE or far far less ? Well he came up on the 8th July , just after the GE, but he only came up to Edinburgh to tell us Scots and others who live in Scotland that “”This is part one (as in Labour’s win in the UK GE)” but he then added that “part two comes in 2026.” (Holyrood election). However sourced from the … Continue reading Since the Election, how many times has Keir Starmer been up to visit Scotland ?

By stewartb – a long read This is to ‘showcase’ BBC Scotland’s journalism. The example is taken from its coverage of CalMac ferry services in which anecdote is used in negative reporting characterised by the absence of context and the absence of perspective. Negativity in the case of ‘ferries’ has only been challenged, balanced or countered with any consistency in one place, on Talking up Scotland. In stark contrast to BBC Scotland  and other mainstream news media that supposedly ‘serve’ Scotland with ALL their resources, only here on TuS have a number of things – simple, reasonable, arguably obvious things … Continue reading What value ‘perspective’? The case of BBC Scotland, the Isle of Mull and ’ferries’!

Anonymous BBC website Home page 09:15am. Currently fifth , not top, story and article is just out today. “Energy prices forecast to rise by 9% in October” Craig Lowrey, principal consultant at the forecaster, said “While we don’t expect a return to the extreme prices of recent years, it’s unlikely that bills will return to what was once considered normal. Without significant intervention, this may well be the new normal“ “Charity National Energy Action said any increases in prices, alongside less support from the government, could stretch some households’ finances “beyond breaking point”. So is it just me or does anyone else recall Labour before the GE being most vocal at the Tory UK government in them , Tories, not intervening … Continue reading BBC hides Labour failure to stop energy price surge this winter

In the Guardian today: Police believe strip-searching children can be effective, but suspicions of misuse remain. There is little dispute that compelling anyone, let alone a child, to expose their intimate body parts against their will to a stranger causes real emotional pain. But police believe strip-searching can be a useful tool. The police believe the use of “plugging”, the secretion of illegal drugs, increased with the growth of the “county lines” phenomenon, which saw children used as mules to move drugs from big cities to smaller towns. Young people have been lured or threatened by drugs gangs who believe police will be reluctant … Continue reading English drug gangs forcing child ‘mules’ to move drugs across Scotland ‘internally concealed’ with horrific health risks

Anonymous The inclusion of two long term haters of all things SNP, Brian Wilson & Susan Dalgetty, in their newspaper speaks volumes as to their agenda as a newspaper. Both of these columnists have former political links connected to the Labour party and so their inclusion, as columnists in The Scotsman, is so very obvious as they often contribute what is expected by this newspaper . Which as contributions mostly consists of both of them highlighting how terrible Scotland is and also how it’s all the SNP’s fault. Does any reader of their newspaper ,who is aware of both Wilson’s & Dalgetty’s … Continue reading The Scotsman will welcome anyone as a columnist