Ford’s financial numbers don’t add up – The Globe and MailRob Ford claimed the other day to have saved the city $70 million in the first six months. In this Globe & Mail story, they reported that most of that was the money from the vehicle regi…
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Driving The Porcelain Bus: Torontonians to Rob Ford: Hands off our libraries!
Poll shows Torontonians oppose closing local libraries and library privatization – councilors take note < Libraries, Privatization, Ontario | CUPEThe Toronto Public Library Workers Union commissioned Forum Research to ask Torontonians about Ford’s…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ford’s consultants: Miller was right
The Grid TO | Ford’s consultants: Miller was rightLook wait-and-give-him-a-chance people and Ford followers: even the consultants, who Ford wasted a lot of money on, agree with David Miller, 1/3 of the councillors, and just over half the people in Toro…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Noncommittal Rob Ford brushes off $130 million + $49 million wasted in cancelling Transit City
Metro – Ford deals death blow to Transit CityToronto must pay at least $49M to cancel LRT planI was waiting for more numbers to come in before posting this. So far, we have a waste, by Ford, of $179 million.From the Metro article:Ford was noncommittal …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: RCMP to investigate the Looters In Suits $50 million expenditure 100km from Huntsville (un-approved G8 spending)
RCMP finally investigates Muskoka’s G8 ‘Legacy Infrastructure’ « the reeves reportExcerpt from The Reeves Report:Because of an election-time early leak of the Auditor General’s G8 report which I wrote about here, many opposition MP’s were su…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford Must Go – Campaign to Impeach Mayor Ford
Rob Ford Must Go – Campaign to Impeach Mayor Ford – Petition Online CanadaRob Ford definitely won’t be impeached due to this petition (I don’t think the mayor can be impeached. I think he can be removed from office if he breaks certain laws – see Oh, s…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Could the vote on the Jarvis Bike Lane be a turning point for Ford’s support on council?
Fighting for Bike Lanes at Toronto City Hall: Pt. I « the reeves reportEarlier today, Mayor Rob Ford voted against all the community grants, while council voted unanimously to continue the grants (with one vote exception where Doug Ford voted along wi…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Hey Rob! Cutting these will result in higher costs down the road and result in insignificant savings
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 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: 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: Conservatives give away Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd and pay the new owners $60 million
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. sold to SNC-Lavalin Group for $15 million – Winnipeg Free PressYesterday, the federal government sold crown corporation, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., to the Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin Group. The price tag was $15 million. …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Sun News reporter’s conduct results in thousands of complaints
Complaints over Sun News interview overwhelm watchdog – The Globe and MailNo surprise here.Excerpt from article:Viewers have sent in more than 4,350 complaints since the interview aired on the Sun News program Canada Live on June 1. The CBSC receives o…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: CUPW will challenge the back-to-work legislation
Canada Post union to challenge back-to-work legislation in court – thestar.comAs I was pointing out, the legislation is illegal, and the union is going to challenge it in court. Now the decision will depend on if Harper has stacked the Supreme Court wi…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Stockwell Day sets up a firm to help lobbyists, gets the okay, and denies this is what he is doing
Ethics commission OKs Stockwell Day to start government consulting firmStockwell Day has set up Stockwell Day Connex, a company that will help looters in suits to lobby the government of looters in suits – all the while, denying that is what he is doin…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Conservative back to work legislastion breaks the law and could result in lasting consequences
To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth: On back to work legislation. Whoa, deja vu.Excerpts:It’s worth noting that even lawyers aren’t evading it as much as they used to. In 2007, the Supreme Court of Canada, in the BC Health Services case, overtu…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Harper wants 100% control of the media, not just 90%
LAWRENCE MARTIN: Shades of Nixon: The PM’s media suspicions | iPolitics
Harper is aiming to wage a war against the so-called Liberal media – the media of which 90% supported the Conservatives in the recent election. Harper wants control of that last …
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Toronto G20: One thug down, many to go.
Toronto police officer charged in G20 assault – thestar.com
Many more officers guilty of assault causing bodily harm will remain at large and uncharged due to a system that fails ordinary citizens when trusted police officers break the law.
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Con Reasoning: We’re corrupt, so we’ll put the most corrupt in charge of the money
Fraud-charged Senator leads Tory fundraising review
Irving Gerstein, Harper-appointed Senator, Conservative Fund Board Chair, who, along with 3 other Conservative officials, was charged in the In and Out affair (election fraud from the previous electio…
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Looters in Suits (The Harper Conservative government) outed – again. G8 Spending.
Ministers didn’t follow policies for G8 spending: AG – Politics – CBC News
The report shows that the Conservatives spent money in their ridings ignoring their own guidelines and transparency, and without reason, basically looting from government funds …
Driving 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…
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