Must be Halloween or something.I have no words.
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@TOMayorFord puts Toronto on @KeithOlbermann ‘s map
Oh look. Mayor Stupid’s gotten some international recognition!Worse than Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck.When? When will this nightmare end?Related posts:So Mayor Stupid takes one in the nads on the waterfront …Oh, look: everything Team Ford touches turns to …
Continue readingTwo Things About This Whole Mayor Fordzilla 9-1-1 Drama
I think we’ll remember Marg Delahunty: warrior princess meeting Mayor Fordzilla for a very long time.
1) It really doesn’t matter at the end of the day how much profanity Mayor Fordzilla used during his 9-1-1 call. The real question should be why did he call a line, restricted for pretty life and . . . → Read More: Two Things About This Whole Mayor Fordzilla 9-1-1 Drama
Continue readingMayor Fordzilla Taking Campaign Lessons From Steve Harper
Yes, this puffy faced buffoon has been in office for a year now and how does he celebrate? Why, he begins to go into permanent campaign mode, of course!
“Three more years and I’ll be running again, that’s for sure,” he said. “I’m running, 100 per cent,” he added later. “I’m already out . . . → Read More: Mayor Fordzilla Taking Campaign Lessons From Steve Harper
Continue readingSo Mayor Stupid takes one in the nads on the waterfront …
So it appears that Mayor Stupid and Brother Dumbfuck underestimated the backlash they’d triggered by fucking around into the waterfront. A big tip of the chapeau to the folks behind CodeBlueTO, and everyone else who worked to stop them.However, as Harv…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Power of the People
Despite our almost legendary passivity as a people, one small part of Canada is offering an example of what can happen when citizens shed the mantle of political disengagement that our politicians have long cultivated and counted on in order to push t…
Continue readingNow There’s a Comforting Thought…
That Ubercon wet dream of Stevie Spiteful’s that he went all ga ga giddy over at Mayor Boss Hogg’s hootenanny last summer that was videotaped. Yanno, that video that the Cons seem to feverishly keep chasing their tails, trying to keep it off the intertoobz without much success. Well, boys ‘n’ girls, here . . . → Read More: Now There’s a Comforting Thought…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Ford Gang Stays True To Form
Although I don’t live in Toronto, it has become an object of fascination for me since the election of Mayor Rob and Doug Ford. Within their fiefdom resides a psychology that provides fascinating examples of and insights into the darker aspects of huma…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Score Another One For Rick Salutin
Consistently able to ‘think outside the box’ of the current North American mindset, Rick Salutin, one of my favorite critical thinkers, has a column in today’s Star well-worth perusal. Entitled The sector that dares not speak its name, the thesis of hi…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Willful Ignorance in the Ford Administration
Toronto Mayors Rob and Doug Ford and their minions, like so many of the extreme right, tend not to let facts, reason, and data interfere with the purity of their ideological vision. Someone who describes city employees as ‘the gravy’ and denies that e…
Continue readingLemme Get This Straight…
Mayor Boss Hogg and his brother sidekick Donut Dougy say that cuts are necessary to things like school crossing guards, school lunch programs to impoverished children, dental programs for children, two cops per patrol car, libraries, social housing, as they’re all considered to be “gravy”, but they seem to think that things like . . . → Read More: Lemme Get This Straight…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Another Ardent Free Enterpriser Seeks A ‘Left-Wing’ solution
In what can be seen as either an act of hubris (Do as I say or I will unleash Ford Nation during the fall election) or an act of desperation (Oops, why did the private sector fail me?), Mayor Rob Ford made a visit to Dalton McGuinty yesterday, seeking …
Continue readingGiorgio Mammoliti– A Great Shirriff Roscooooo P Coltrane To Mayor Boss Hogg
Yes, ol’ Giorgio Mammoliti has been really becoming unhinged as of late. McCarthyism is indeed alive and well over at City Hall. A Facebook group that won’t allow ‘commies’, although, one seems to have slipped through, but the comment has been scrubbed. Damn! shoulda taken a screen shot.
First, was his spying at . . . → Read More: Giorgio Mammoliti– A Great Shirriff Roscooooo P Coltrane To Mayor Boss Hogg
Continue reading@marcusbgee calls Ford on his bullshit, but who helped put him there? | #TOpoli
So a few people – Thor and Nancy for starters – are linking to this piece from the Globe’s ideologically reliable urban affairs curmudgeon, who’s arguing, not without reason, that Mayor Stupid should have known all along that he couldn’t guara…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Hamilton Libraries: Something To Answer For
The other day I wrote a post called Hamilton’s Vindication, with a link to a story detailing Hamilton Mayor Bob Bratina’s invitation to author Margaret Atwood to tour the Central Library facilities. I suggested that Hamilton was enjoying a burgeoning …
Continue readingAnother day, another embarrassing eruption from Mt. Ford | #TOpoli
Honestly, where do you begin?First, Mayor Stupid’s dismissing all the folks who spoke at last month’s city hall all-nighter as left-wing, NDP, special-interest types trying to protect their free money. No surprise there, really. It’s not as if the guy’…
Continue readingI Think We Should Lock That Whole Gang of Miscreants In The John
Before they crap all over Ontario and Canada.
Last week, when my husband and I were in Toronto, we were having lunch at the Hot House. We saw some construction. We saw a crane lifting some port-o-craps up. We thought how fun it would’ve been if Rob Ford or Stevie Spiteful or Tony . . . → Read More: I Think We Should Lock That Whole Gang of Miscreants In The John
Continue readingWhat Rob Ford, the tea party and the Conservatives should learn from the British riots
But they won’t.The last time Britain saw widespread rioting, in the 1980s, street violence came after a long and failed political struggle against the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher, which suppressed trade unions and decimated social serv…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Ongoing Devolution of Toronto
Perhaps it stems from a sense of inadequacy, a measure of paranoia, or a recognition that when all is said or done, they are just not up to the job, but when those of the far right-wing take power, we are frequently witness to a type of unbridled glee…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Christopher Hume’s Modest Proposal To The Ford Brothers
Although my right-wing friends seem to have neither an understanding nor an appreciation of irony (I’m lying – I don’t have any right-wing friends), more centered people will enjoy The Star’s Christopher Hume who, in today’s paper, has a modest proposa…
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