What abosolute drivel. Ever tried to cross into US as a Canadian, not just now, but for the last umpteen years. Just so you Know, the millions of people up here are wearing eskimo suits and Sars masks. Bring your skis too becuase the snow is great. I am getting a list of all those manufacturers who pulled out and I certainly won’t be supporting them. Oh and did you know there is SARS in the US too. Guess you can’t go out of your house now…enjoy…oh and west nile and killer bees which are in the US. What crap…
That story is simply not true. Where do you get this stuff? The people who are affected are health care workers who came into direct contact. There has not been ONE, NOT ONE, case of community transmission. By the way the Rolling Stones are now playing a concert in Toronto in the next few weeks. Certainly going to be tough for them to play with masks on.
I am curious. What has happened to monkeypox. The midwest US was full of this plague a few weeks back and miraculously it has disapeared. I believe that some MRR mail order items come from this area. What all is in the package that is shipped to Canada?
OKY,DOKEY, No problem… I’ll send you a 5 pound box of firewood, and we’ll see what gets across the border first, the cash, or the wood…
“NAFTA” was a big mistake, I’m ashamed to admit that I am a Democrat, but I’m certain that the Republicans were behind the whole thing.
When your beloved Canadian National owns all the rails in the U.S., perhaps then you’ll be happy. Christ, these days I don’t know whether to salute the “Stars & Stripes”, or the “Maple Leaf”. Yup, you guys are pretty good, we protected your country during the “cold war”, and now all of our manufacturing industry is moving up your way. That’s a really good way to thank us for all we have done for you…
I don’t know what’s worse anymore, Canada, or Mexico. You want us to buy your stuff, but we shouldn’t try to sell our products to you Canadians. F.O.
Hi Bob…Mike here…don’t worry about the monkey pox, unless you’re showing the main symptom…that symptom is an uncontrollable urge to peel a banana with your feet.
Regards from Meaford.
For your information, 55% of CN stock is held by US shareholders, the largest single shareholder being William H. Gates III. Maybe you’ve heard of him; he’s the richest man on earth and a US citizen. The President of CN is E. Hunter Harrison, former president of Illinois Central and a US citizen.
I don’t know where you get the notion that NAFTA is one-way against the US. We’ve been buying your consumer goods for nearly a hundred years!
Enough of this foolishness; let’s get back to trains.
I agree, this is not a place for politics. Please forgive my “attitude”, my local area has been devestated by the recent "Bush idea of “econonomic stimulation”. Boy, we better get that idiot out of the white house this time. If not, I think that WW3 will be soon to come.
Almost ashamed to call myself an American…
W.T.C.
Well, Toronto is now off the WHO’s list of SARS affected cities which should indicate to everyone it’s now safe to visit our city. Will the major manufacturers now attend the show? Our area’s economy has been hard hit by the major drop in tourism. I hope the model railroad industry and model railroaders will support us by attending the show and convention
The Convention should begin soon
I wonder how many Toronto forum posters would have the time to get online & give us an idea of how many NMRA members came this year?[?]
Also make a report from any of the manufacturers that did show up & participate? [?]We could all show our support by buying their products! [:D][8D]
Have fun model railroading & be safe! [:)][8D]
Well I was on my way till I was involved in a car wreck…So much for the much needed get away for 11 days…GRRRRR!
I’ll not be going to the convention, it’s not worth the expenditure to me (I’m working during most of it, so I couldn’t take advantage of much). I’ll be hitting the Train show next weekend for sure, got a lot of shopping to do.
The only thing stopping from going to the train show is the same thing that’s stopping me from going to the Star Trek convention that on right now, I can’t afford to go… Otherwsie I’d be there.
Lets stop all of this BULL!!!
SARS is a problem in Canada!!! I think that it’s more important to possibly save a few lives than look at a bunch of toy trains running around a track!!! grow up and cut the crap about 911 and pointing fingers at each others countries. Toronto should still be a city, not to be visited. Don’t risk the possibly of spreading a fatal disease to watch a few trains or catch a theatre show for a discount price!!! Don’t be so cheap!!! Toronto and the rest of the world will bounce back from this, with common sense.
Danstrain: There hasn’t been a new case in weeks, even if there was, it ONLY affected people who had been to certain hospitals. There were no documented cases of SARS that were transmitted outsie of the 4 affected hospitals (None of which are anywhere near the trainshow location, Which is on the Mississauga border, the other end of a very large city).
Heck, apart from the papers, very few Torontonians even noticed it, it’s not an epidemic, frankly it’s not much more dangerous than the West Nile virus, which most of North America deals with every summer, and Traffic is more dangerous. In a city of 2.5 million, we had a few hundred infections, all tied to 2 index patients, and 58 deaths, a tragedy, yes, a danger, not anymore, and not if you don’t interact with the health system, which is where every single Canadian infection occurred.
Go to the Train Show, and stick around for the Concert For Toronto if you can, it’s the only place you’ll see the Stones, AC/DC, The Who and Rush on the same stage. Don’t let some scaremongering dissuade you from it.