OK. Let me get this straight eh? The Con smear machine that destroyed Ignatieff and Dion, goes after Brian Topp.“Topp is a union boss and has deep union ties,” they say in a memo to MPs and party faithful. “How could Brian Topp speak on beha…
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Pushed to the Left and Loving It: Rob Ford Wants to Put Back Pictures of Queen in Toronto Public Buildings
The Queen’s image has been retouched and will also appear on Toronto Subway Tokens.
Continue readingthe reeves report: Manning Centre releases 2011 State of Canada’s Conservative Movement
The Manning Centre, founded by former Opposition and Reform Party Leader Preston Manning, released its second annual State of Canada’s Conservative Movement report. The study is comprised of three parts, examining the attitudes of Canadians across the political spectrum on various topics like welfare and immigration; comparing the electoral map in Ontario from the 2008 … Continue reading »
BigCityLib Strikes Back: An Interesting Phone Poll
Got a robo-call last night (from Access Research? Someone at 180 Bloor West, anyway, whose voice-mail won’t give you a company name) asking who I’d vote for municipally, what I thought of Rob Ford’s performance, and should my local councillor support h…
Continue readingthe reeves report: Toronto mulls deep service cuts to begin meeting $774M budget shortfall
In the effort to reduce a budget shortfall of $774M in the City of Toronto, we may find that the city our forebears worked so hard to create will be drained of its essence. After promising in the 2010 mayoral election that taxes would be cut and services would be left alone – that tired … Continue reading »
Montreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Moron Nation
(click pic to enlarge)As I watched a storm sweeping in over Toronto this evening, I couldn’t help thinking about how Rob Ford is planning to turn the city I have come to love into a dirtier, uglier, place.It turns out that muni…
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Only Gravy Rob Ford Could Find
…was on those poor kid’s Xmas turkey.Although I disagree that the late upsurge in Anti-Ford administration anger is entirely a product of Metro’s downtowners. I know a couple of Ford voters living in the ridiculously congested Finch …
Continue readingRedBedHead: European Revolt Against Austerity Picks Up Steam
Strikers in Italy resist austerity.
It seems apparent that European politicians somehow missed out the economics class where they explain how massive cuts to public spending in the middle of an economic contraction makes things worse. They also miss…
Continue readingOh, look: everything Team Ford touches turns to crap. Don’t look so surprised
I’m all for respectful dialogue and agreeing to disagree, but there’s a point at which you just have to admit it: we are right and they are wrong and clinging to their illusions just makes them look even dumber.For Christ’s sakes. All those disgruntled…
Continue readingRob Ford to attend TIFF kickoff
Toronto mayor Rob Ford and his brother, councillor Doug Ford will be at tonight’s Toronto International Film Festival world premiere of the U2 documentary From the Sky Down. The Ford brothers have been branded ‘philistines’ by many for their lack of su…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Doug Ford’s backroom sweetheart dealings on waterfront breaks Ford Nation campaign promise and the Toronto Municipal Code
Toronto News: Doug Ford’s mall dealings spark complaint – thestar.com
Doug Ford claimed to various newspapers that he had been in talks with The Westfield Group regarding proposals for the Toronto waterfront development of the Portlands.
This has …
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Sign Posted on Jarvis in Toronto
Here’s a picture I found via FailBlog that I planned to share a while ago. It still has relevance if you’re familiar with the Ford-era of politics in Toronto.[Metro, City votes to scrap some downtown bike lanes]
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Rob Shows Tim How Its Done
I’m not quite sure what it is he’s showing him, but Tim is clapping, so I guess Rob must doing it well. Also, a nice line from the source story:…the Star has learned of polling data showing Ford’s popularity steadily sinking from an almo…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Ford Nation is now a little clam. And, Tim Hudak is as out of touch as ever
Toronto News: Hudak plunges into dangerous liaison with Rob Ford – thestar.com
According to the Toronto Star, Rob Ford’s popularity has been steadily since the election in Oct. 2010.
Ford’s popularity is sinking, according to polling data, as his h…
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Jack Layton, Rob Ford, and our Better Angels
I see that support for the NDP is surging and that Jack is getting the credit.Harris-Decima chairman Allan Gregg said the NDP gain is most likely attributable to “the Jack effect.”“The national outpouring of emotion we witnessed over Ja…
Continue readingA monorail for Toronto? I’m late for this party, aren’t I
Sometimes the posts practically write themselves.I’m sure all the obvious Simpsons references have already been made, although the giant Ferris wheel thing does put me in mind of that scene from The Third Man with Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles.Either …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford’s War On Graffiti Is Out Of Hand and Costly
Strutting And Fretting « All Fired Up In The Big SmokeRead the link for a story about someone getting a notice to remove graffiti from their back-alley garage door. The garage door is pretty much out of site. If Ford Nation is targeting situations lik…
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Buskerfest
Where I was Thursday. I’m not very good at writing art review-style critiques using high-flown language, but I can say that I enjoyed Buskerfest a lot. There’s a bit of an edge to the performers. They generally live on the margins. They swear freely, even with children present. (O the horrors!) They’re tattooed and pierced, […]
Rob Ford’s just asked his better, McGuinty, for a provincial allowance of at least 364 billion
We liberals like to repeat the mantra of a “big gaping hole” in the Ontario PCs provincial budget because it’s true. The Hudakites, if that’s even a word, do in fact promise to make plenty of cuts to public services but aren’t clear o…
Continue readingTrashy's World: Rob Ford – getting weirder by the day
Thanks to Warren Kinsella for finding this…
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