Author: Matt Guerin

In Tuesday’s debate among the three major candidates for Toronto mayor, Doug Ford was asked repeatedly by his opponents during one of the defining moments of the night if he would march in Toronto’s Pride parade as mayor.   Both John Tory and Olivia Chow took on Dougie’s inability to answer

This Inside Toronto article today by Dave Nickle nicely sums up many reasons why I’m growing more disappointed with John Tory’s mayoral campaign.   I have previously been quite open to voting for him, especially since he emerged as the main challenger to the incumbent buffoon Rob Ford.   But now

Rob Anders – the longtime Conservative MP, homophobe, social conservative dork, with a penchant for falling asleep in Parliament (see pic on the right) or veterans’ committee meetings, the idiot who somehow imagined Tom Mulcair sped up Jack Layton’s death by cancer, and believe that Nelson Mandela was a terrorist

Due to vacations and work, I took it easy on TIFF this year, seeing only four movies. But I’m happy to say that one of those four films was Morten Tyldum’s excellent ‘The Imitation Game,’ (pictured) which today won the People’s Choice Award at the festival.   Considering previous TIFF

Big news today in Toronto with Rob Ford dropping out of the mayor’s race due to health issues.  Now his brother Doug Ford is stepping in to run for Toronto mayor in Rob’s place, because the family considers the mayor’s chair to be Ford family property, I guess. And Rob

A good friend of mine commented on this Global TV interview with idiot/homophobic Toronto school trustee Sam Sotiropoulos and said it all: “Kudos to the Global TV reporter here who doggedly attempted to engage demented school board trustee Sam Sotiropoulos on his inane comments about transgender people. His weird smirky

I’m getting a little tired of John Tory critics picking apart his “Smart Track” proposal as “risky” and “dangerous” simply because he hopes to finance it with tax-increment financing or TIF.    Such a plan could fall well short of paying the city’s $3 billion share of Tory’s plan, forcing

This is required reading for Ford Nation or those bizarre people who appear to be still considering voting for the turd in October, according to the turd pollster Forum Research.   Here’s an excerpt from the Daniel Dale story today: “Mayor Rob Ford made his high school football players “roll in goose scat,”

I’m very happy to be supporting my friend Kate Holloway (pictured) in her bid for a Toronto City Council seat this October.  She’s running in Ward 20, Trinity-Spadina, which was Adam Vaughan’s former seat until he resigned to run federally. Kate is a sensational, hard-working person and community leader, as

With this fairly quiet and not-hot-enough summer drawing to a close, the Toronto mayoral race is just about to switch into high gear.  Polls offer a hint of clarity as many lately have shown John Tory pulling ahead, Olivia Chow falling back and Rob Ford stagnating, including the reliable Nanos.

Very pleasant reading today courtesy of Edward Keenan in the Toronto Star. Here’s an excerpt:“Is he shameless, or ignorant? Those seem to be the options. If he knows what he is talking about, then he is being brazenly dishonest. If instead he is attempting to be truthful, then he suffers

Wonderful news! Uganda: Anti-Homosexuality Act struck down in step towards ending discrimination | Amnesty International “Uganda’s Constitutional Court today ruled that the Act was “null and void” as not enough representatives were in the room for the vote when it was passed by Parliament in December 2013.”  “Even though Uganda’s

A very good friend of mine, director Ashley Monti, recently shared with me a copy of her new short dramatic film called ‘The Divide.’  The short film chronicles the efforts of armed, quasi-vigilantes who patrol the U.S.-Mexico border to try to stop illegals from entering their country.  Here’s the trailer

This statement below released today by Toronto mayoral candidate Olivia Chow caught my attention:  Reality Check: Taxpayers Coalition Misses Biggest Bill Taxpayers Face FRIDAY, JULY 11, 2014 Oversight, cosy alignment with conservative candidates, something fishier, who knows? But the Toronto Taxpayers Coalition ignored the priciest issue in the mayoral race…in

Well, things are getting interesting.  Just two days after I decided to ignore most public opinion polls except for Nanos Research polls, that very company has come out with a new poll in the Toronto mayoral race.The results put John Tory ahead with 39.1% support, Olivia Chow in second with

Something really bad has happened to the quality of public opinion polls in Canada in recent years, particularly those trying to gauge voter opinions during election campaigns. Recent polling disasters – in which the final results bore little resemblance to most final campaign polls – confirm we can no longer

This Global News video of Joe Killoran, an ordinary East York resident out for a jog Tuesday, made the rounds on the internet last night, and won Killoran massive amounts of fans across Toronto.    Killoran, now popularly known as “Shirtless Joe,” couldn’t contain his frustration when he saw bigot mayor

Happy Canada Day to all!  To celebrate, here’s another look at a glorious 2008 shot of Canadian actor Shawn Ashmore showing off his national pride (and some naked hip)!  I took a break from blogging after the recent Ontario election to focus on the rest of my life.    The

The massive party of World Pride in Toronto is over.  The unabashed winners from World Pride were private businesses like bars, hotels, restaurants and other establishments which got a major boost to their profits.  Most establishments properly prepared for the expected big spike in usual Pride Toronto attendance numbers and

I’m still overjoyed with last night’s historic win for Kathleen Wynne’s Liberals in Ontario.  Wynne is now the first elected female premier of Ontario, and the first out LGBT person to be elected to lead a state/provincial/national government in the English speaking world!   Last night was a little bittersweet for