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Employers reap rewards of “Smart Commuting”

At the annual Smart Commute Awards last evening, it was clear that the Smart Commute program, established in 2004, is transforming the culture of commuting across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA).

“Smart Commute is a concept that has clearly captured the interest of some of the most innovative organizations in the GTHA,” says Bruce McCuaig, President and CEO, Metrolinx. “They understand that we can no longer afford to ignore the huge toll that commuter gridlock is taking on our health, our economy and the environment.”

Via METROLINX

HYDRO ONE SMART METERS – TAXING TELEWORK

CONTACT YOUR PREMIER – DALTON MCGUINTY

PHONE – 416-325-1941

EMAIL – www.premier.gov.on.ca – click on Contact

FAX – ATTENTION: DALTON MCGUINTY AT 416-325-3745

WRITE – DALTON MCGUINTY, PREMIER
LEGISLATIVE BUILDING
QUEEN’S PARK, TORONTO, ON
M7A 1A1

Telework (often referred to as telecommuting ) holds new and largely untapped economic opportunities for Northern Ontario by allowing paid workers to work away from their normal place of work, usually from home.   Since teleworkers need to consume electricity during the day to power their home offices and the technology therein, the smart meter initiative amounts to a tax on what is a very green activity.

Telework offers significant benefits to individual employees, their employers, and their communities, yet the Ontario government has been less proactive in enabling and promoting telework than it has been on promoting the smart meter initiative. An initiative being managed and implemented by those same organizations who have a long track record of waste and mismanagement.

Let your voice be heard by contacting the Premier’s Office, Hydro One, and the Minster of Energy.

Broadband Basic Right: PIAC Canadian Report

Canadians as well as the citizens and residents of many other countries take services such as roads, sewer/water, electrical power and phone service as basic rights.

Should broadband be in this category too? Especially given the country, the founding home of the telephone, has vast distances and complex geography that make extensive communications services a necessity?

Via TMCnet 

Celebrating broadband success with LWRA

Darryl Kramp, MP Prince Edward-Hastings visited Limerick Lake Lodge in Limerick Township, on April 7, to commend the lake’s cottagers association, The Limerick Waterways Ratepayers Association, (LWRA), for its partnering with CFDC to bring broadband service to one of the most sparsely populated areas of southern Ontario.

The lake has over 150 seasonal residences which are in use during the three cottage seasons. Many of those cottagers hold positions in the business world that can be performed by tele-commuting…

Via Bancroft This Week – Ontario, CA.