Sadly, Rob Ford epitomises what Canada has become With his crack smoking and drunken misbehaviour, Toronto’s mayor personifies our crude, swaggering, bungling New Canada Robert Hays in the Guardian Fri Dec 13 2013 Speak for yourself, Hays..truly the East seems to have adopted the crudities of the HarperCons
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Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Paul Krugman highlights why inequality is indeed an issue which demands action – both for its own sake, and for its impact on other goals such as economic sustainability. And Bill Moyers discusses the difference between a government responsive to its people and
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Day The Cons Fought Each Other
He's a bigot, a bully, a boozer, a beast. He's shaming us in the eyes of the world. Each time Ford appears in the media, it's another eerie reminder of what we've become: crude, swaggering, bungling, irrational and mendacious. We've reached that staggering moment in a brilliant horror film when
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Focused on the economy? Finance Minister Flaherty and "Minister of Jobs" Kenney nearly "come to blows" over Toronto politics
CBC reporting, and Conservative MP’s and Kenney himself confirming. “In a voice loud enough for several of their cabinet colleagues to hear, Flaherty told Kenney to “shut the f–k up” about Ford. Kenney responded angrily in kind, and although the two men were separated by four other ministers, alarmed caucus colleagues,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford: The Day the Bully Met his Match
Hallelujah !!! We have our David Daniel. Somebody has finally stood up to the ghastly Con Goliath Rob Ford. Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale has served Mayor Rob Ford with a libel notice over comments the mayor made during a televised interview earlier this week. Mr. Dale published a statement
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Some beautiful animation about a terrible person. Are the…
Some beautiful animation about a terrible person. Are the creators psychic or merely wishful? We’ll find out in 2014.
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: Just when you thought the lying scumbag Rob Ford couldn’t…
Just when you thought the lying scumbag Rob Ford couldn’t sink any lower, he belly flops into the filthy, shitty muck yet again. During a softball interview by Conrad Black on the show Zoomer TV — which aired on December 9, 2013 on the religious channel, Vision — the lying, corrupt
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford: The Con Thug and the Death of Decency
He has shamed us all in the eyes of the world, with his moral corruption, his bloated vulgarity, his bestial behaviour.He stinks of Con Canada, it oozes out of every sweaty pore.He simply can't help himself. Just when you think he can't sink any lower, he does. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper, Rob Ford and Our Divided Country
It's hard to decide which Con clown is more pathetic. The one on his way to the funeral of Nelson Mandela. The man he once called a terrorist who should be kept in prison, or hanged.Or the one waddling down the street at a Santa Claus parade throwing candy canes to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Hassan Arif theorizes that a failure to identify and address growing inequality may have played a significant role in the rise of Rob Ford’s destructive anti-socialism: The Toronto of towering new condos, of downtown coffee shops and trendy restaurants and stores, is far
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: What Ford and Harper Have In Common
They both have problems with telling the truth. Yesterday, news broke that Rob Ford had been attempting to purchase the video of him smoking crack cocaine – before Gawker and the Toronto Star made the existence of the video public. In this morning’s news, we find Ford denying that he
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Day of Revelation
Well yesterday he was looking for any camera he could find to try to keep his face in the news. But tonight he was hanging on for dear life and dodging the media, after police documents finally revealed the true heart of the Rob Ford scandal. Not just a mayor out
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford: The Mock Satanists and The Movie
Golly. Because I've been so busy trying to stay on top of the Senate scandal, I haven't been able to write anything about the continuing adventures of Rob Ford. But they are continuing. And it's still a horror show.Even though the Fordzilla can't seem to understand that he's only the mayor in name
Continue readingThe Ranting Canadian: News roundup: November 30, 2013 Here are a few thoughts about…
News roundup: November 30, 2013 Here are a few thoughts about recent Canadian political stories (in no particular order). Liberal spin on the Toronto Centre by-election Justin Trudeau and the federal Liberals have been falsely claiming they ran a wholly positive campaign in the Toronto Centre by-election, and that this
Continue readingThe Wingnuterer: The Twitter Wars – Damany Skeene
There are funny Trolls, trolls who have a purpose and use snark, satire and humor to get their point across. An example of this kind of Troll would be @CanadianCynic (aka CC). CC is the master of the 140 character snark on twitter. There are brain dead Political Trolls, trolls
Continue readingAlberta Diary: ‘Ethical Cannabis’: Is it time to make … ‘The Case for B.C. Bud’?
Who would’ve thought we’d find a suitable reference to Riders Nation and Ethical Cannabis in one photograph? But courtesy the Calgary Sun, there it is! Note the hat, bottom right. Just saying. Below: Some guy standing in front of Rob Ford’s office. Those of us who don’t regularly wear melons
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: No One To Blame For Rob Ford But The Media And Ignorance
This article in the Toronto Star points to the voters as those solely to blame for Rob Ford being elected.I disagree. The voters are partially to blame, but there were other major factors.1) The MediaThe Media is very much to blame for the election of …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: No One To Blame For Rob Ford But The Media And Ignorance
This article in the Toronto Star points to the voters as those solely to blame for Rob Ford being elected. I disagree. The voters are partially to blame, but there were other major factors. 1) The MediaThe Media is very much to blame for the election of Rob Ford. During
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: No One To Blame For Rob Ford But The Media And Ignorance
This article in the Toronto Star points to the voters as those solely to blame for Rob Ford being elected. I disagree. The voters are partially to blame, but there were other major factors. 1) The MediaThe Media is very much to blame for the election of Rob Ford. During
Continue readingLeDaro: Rob Ford smoking crack
One of many funny pictures of the man on the internet.
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