Toronto mayor Rob Ford gave his endorsement to former Ontario PC leader John Tory today. When a staffer pointed out that Tim Hudak, and not Tory, was the current party leader, Ford replied “Really? Are you shitting me?”Rob’s brother Shecky Ford said he…
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The door’s this way, Chief Blair
So it seems Bill Blair isn’t getting with Team Ford’s austerity program.Instead of being a good boy and implementing the 10-per-cent reduction the mayor’s team is demanding of city managers, he’s looking for a budgetary increase. Not a lot, mind, but t…
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading.- Trish Hennessy points out that there’s a debt crisis facing many Canadians that will only be exacerbated by public-sector slashing:1.57 TrillionCanadians’ household debt in the second quarter of 2011, reach…
Continue readingPop The Stack: United They Stand, While Democracy Falls
There are two very different stories playing out in two of the most contested democratic chambers in Canada right now. One chamber is Toronto City Hall and the other is the House of Commons in Ottawa. The difference between these stories is very enlightening about one important condition for a robust
Continue readingPop The Stack: United They Stand, While Democracy Falls
There are two very different stories playing out in two of the most contested democratic chambers in Canada right now. One chamber is Toronto City Hall and the other is the House of Commons in Ottawa. The difference between these stories is very enlightening about one important condition for a robust
Continue readingthe reeves report: Horwath downplays coalition talk; asks Toronto Council to halt TTC cuts
Anyone hoping that a recent plea from provincial NDP leader Andrea Horwath to Toronto City Council to hold off on transit cuts will make a difference is kidding themselves. Or the have a lot more faith in Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s desire to listen to left-wing politicians than I do. According to Horwath as reported … Continue reading »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford Surrenders to People Power
He blubbered, he bubbahed, he pouted, and then he surrendered.In a significant concession to public opposition and to queasy council allies, Ford voted at the end of a 20-hour executive committee meeting to reject some proposed cuts and to put off deci…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Forbidden Tory Video Available Here
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Continue readingRedBedHead: Toronto: Mayor Ford Retreat, Tory Vote Meltdown
Ah, I love the smell of self-inflicted Tory panic on a Monday morning. It seemed only a year ago that things were heading towards Tories at all levels of government. Harper was riding high – and would soon win a majority – Ford won a majority of vot…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Little Farm
Far Enough Farm is a little hobby farm located on one of the Toronto Islands. Every year hundreds of thousands of people visit it.Because admission is free, it’s a great place for poor families to take their children to, and introduce them to a way of …
Continue readingHow the Liberals lost Toronto
The Star has a reasonable accounting of why the Liberals lost Toronto. The story is really about how the Liberals lost Canada. It comes down to two things: immigrants were wooed by Conservatives while Liberals ignored them; Liberals don’t know shit abo…
Continue readingRunesmith's Canadian Content: The Mayors of Jane Jacobs’ Toronto
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs, a book which influenced generations of urban planners and municipal leaders and forever changed the way we think of cities. So what better way to celebrate than in the
Continue readingRunesmith's Canadian Content: The Mayors of Jane Jacobs’ Toronto
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs, a book which influenced generations of urban planners and municipal leaders and forever changed the way we think of cities. So what…
Continue readingRunesmith's Canadian Content: The Mayors of Jane Jacobs’ Toronto
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs, a book which influenced generations of urban planners and municipal leaders and forever changed the way we think of cities. So what better way to celebrate than in the
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 readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Will Rob Ford Put an End to Blissful Ignorance?
On February 15, 1983, the New York Times ran a headline: Reagan Misstatements Getting Less Attention.Ronald Reagan was not only the first American President to bring the Religious Right into his administration, but he also launched an era of …
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford’s War: The Fight Back Begins
His ghastly face stares out from newspaper boxes all over the city, like Big Bubbah. The message couldn’t be clearer, or more urgent.Rob Ford has declared war on us. Now we must declare war on him, and the City Council stooges who are helping him …
Continue readingRedBedHead: Civil War Looming In "Ford Nation" HQ
If I were a betting man, I would have slapped down a c-note that Ford’s administration would go off the rails within two years. Even during the election it was clear that Ford’s buffoonish populism – attacks on public sector workers, combined with a …
Continue readingRob Ford dropping like a rock
One question for Torontonians: what took you so long?One of the biggest polls ever conducted in Toronto shows residents from every corner of the city are overwhelmingly against Mayor Rob Ford’s cuts. From Doug Ford’s ward in Etobicoke to budge…
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