Talk:Toronto smog crisis

"The spin began to fail disasterously," or so we hear. Being in the middle of it, and with the provincial and municipal governments just having changed to more leftist parties, it is hard to say what course the crisis is taking.

With SARS in retrospect, it's very ironic that Toronto lost the 2008 Games to Beijing, if respiratory health was a deciding issue, and the parallels in government "spins" are interesting and undoubtedly deserve lots of attention. It does seem to be true that any outrage stemming from government mismanagment of its "health care, education, and social assistance systems" has been rechannelled as frustration about public relations, and the heavily publicized that are measures being called rememdies for Toronto's crises are all concerned with government accountability and attention to the public, as though a simple lapse in communication were the cause of all the problems.--22:36, 30 Mar 2004 (EST)