All Aboard the Gravy Train: Business, Culture, Employment, Medical Supplies – TorontoistCutting these services (listed at the link) will result in higher costs for Toronto in the future. And, they won’t amount to much savings for Toronto. It would make…
Continue readingTag: bumpkins
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Ford continues to nickel-and-dime while Toronto burns
City bosses face buyout offer in Ford’s quest for cuts – thestar.comRob Ford continues to make little cuts here and there while ignoring the elephant in the room of his own creation. While he nickles and dimes cuts to employees, he has also cut large i…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford does not compute
Ford’s expenses report questioned in complaint – thestar.comOne way for politicians to cover up bribes would be to funnel those bribes into paying for expenses and not keep track of those expenses or where the money came from. This is one of the reas…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: The Rob Ford supporters never paid attention
Mapping Toronto’s Wellbeing – TorontoistOkay, first, no one is surprised that they didn’t and don’t pay attention.Here is a smoking gun of inattentiveness:Scroll down to “Overcrowded TTC Routes”. Notice that the most overcrowded public transit routes a…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford to Toronto – Pride’s over, who can I snub next?
James: Toronto elected a mayor, not a priest – thestar.comThose huge numbers of supporters who argue that the mayor should have the right to go where he wants and support whichever events he chooses, choose to forget this: Tomorrow, you will be the one…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford: blundering on, tearing down Toronto bit by by while his fans cheer him on.
Hume: Under Ford, city’s reputation for tolerance is strained – thestar.comWhile Ford’s hordes cheer him on in the most unseemly manner, cutting off their collective nose to spite their collective face, they have little to offer aside from insults …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford – Ignorant, mean, or both?
Free nurses? No thanks, says Mayor Rob Ford – Healthzone.caWell, from our knowledge of Ford so far, we know that he is both mean and ignorant.This time, he is turning down the offer from the province, of 2 free nurses who would work with new immigrants…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Even Ford’s budget chief says Rob’s math is hurting Toronto
Don’t kill land transfer tax, budget chair advises – thestar.comIsn’t it curious? All those people bad-mouthing David Miller and his governance of Toronto. Yet, Miller managed the finances well and ended up with a surplus. Now, those who bath-mouthed…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Even Ford’s budget chief says Rob’s math is hurting Toronto
Don’t kill land transfer tax, budget chair advises – thestar.com
Isn’t it curious? All those people bad-mouthing David Miller and his governance of Toronto. Yet, Miller managed the finances well and ended up with a surplus.
Now, those who bath-mouth…
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Ford and his lackies are stifling the city
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things – Torontoist
Excerpt:
Rob Ford and many on city council do not yet seem to have a grasp on this concept of the living city. It was Ford, after all, who proposed during his mayoral campaign that we discourage immigr…
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Why Do The Poor Continue To Defend Tax Breaks for the Rich?
Why do the Poor Continue to Defend tax Breaks for the Rich
Great post by Cory McCray. This applies to Canadians too.
Excerpt:
Sometimes I just don’t understand why there is always a financially struggling college kid, a low wage worker, or a middle …
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Ford wastes city money painting over art the city had paid for
Artist says city erased mural it paid him to paint – thestar.com
Methinks Ford wanted to paint over the art that was commissioned by an old political foe – Adam Giambrone.
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Oh, suddenly Rob Ford DOES have something to hide.
Ford asks court to halt audit of his campaign finances – thestar.com
Last week Ford told the Toronto Sun “There is nothing to hide so let them audit all they want”.
This week, he asked his lawyer to ask the court to halt the audit of his campaign finan…
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford’s lies and bad math catching up to him
Road toll ‘reality check’ stirs up Toronto council – thestar.com
Rob Ford reduced the city income, cancelled a cross-city fully-funded transit plan and then expected to pay for his subway dream with what? In his campaign promises his math was obvio…
Driving The Porcelain Bus: "This Stinks To High Heaven" – Ford’s disrespect for taxpayers
The Grid TO | Thirteen questions about Rob Ford’s questionable accountingBy Edward Keenan…The problem is that candidates are forbidden from taking loans from anyone except banks and other recognized lending institutions. Even candidates themselves …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ford and fawning lackies vote to push Toronto into more debt
Toronto votes to contract out garbage pickup – thestar.comGloat gloat, oink oink.Studies show that although privatizing garbage pick-up may initially save money, it will cost much more in the long run.Councillors were not shown any solid numbers to con…
Continue reading