It's like a nightmare come true. And after only three months in power.It's Saturday night. Parts of Ottawa are looking like a disaster zone after a tornado hit the region. Thousands are in the dark.But please don't bother Doug Ford.He's busy. Read more »
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Montreal Simon: Doug Ford and the Religious Fanatics
He came bounding into his first news conference as Premier-elect, looking as if he couldn't believe it himself.He spent the next half hour waffling about some of the many wild promises he made during the campaign, claiming he needed to "look at the books" before he could say how he planned to
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Doug Ford and the Wooing of the Religious Fanatics
I didn't have a chance to watch much of the first Ontario election debate, but what I saw of Doug Ford was enough.For there he was straining to remember the lines his Team Harper handlers made him memorize.While his fake followers jumped up and down outside. But of course they were just performers
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Doug Ford and the Bonfire of the Bigots
As you probably know Tanya Granic Allen and Doug Ford had a very special relationship going.For if she and her band of religious fanatics hadn't thrown their support to Ford during the PC leadership convention, he might not be just a few weeks away from becoming the new Premier of Ontario.So although
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Doug Ford and the Rise of the Beastly Bigots
You don't see or hear much from Doug Ford these days. The Team Harper gang who are running his campaign are clearly planning to muzzle their monkey.And turn his bus into a fortress where the media aren't welcome.And who can blame them eh?The last thing they need is the big
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Donald Trump Lite and the Ontario PCs.
After spending Saturday afternoon watching Rosemary Barton and CBC News struggling with the Ontario Conservative fiasco, I was not sure whether the party or the news media did the worst job. It was embarrassing. I actually paid the CBC $6.85 plus GST for the right to watch that screw-up on
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: The Ontario PCs in Wonderland.
Vic Fedeli is hardly the Alice in Wonderland who foolishly headed down the rabbit hole. Yet it was Interim conservative leader Fedeli who first let on that Patrick Brown might not have been telling the whole truth about party memberships. And with three of the four candidates still in the
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Which Tory Witch is dead?
The other evening, the wife and I gathered in the den to enjoy a streaming video of the Ontario Tory leadership debate from Ottawa. It was only when the hijinks started to encroach on our dinner hour that the wife started questioning the entertainment value of the program. Amazingly, the
Continue readingMind Bending Politics: Brown Out In Ontario PC Leadership Race And Recap Thus Far
Patrick Brown decided today that he was ending his candidacy for the Ontario PC Leadership race due to death threats and harassment his family received, and also due to his mother apparently being hospitalized because she can’t handle the stress of her son’s public life. This abrupt end to Brown
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: In search of a Red Tory in Ontario.
There are two former Conservative Members of Parliament whom I could vouch for as Red Tories. They are both very fine and principled gentlemen. They are Patrick Boyer and David Crombie. If you told me that you believed Patrick Brown MPP was a Red Tory, I might wet my pants
Continue readingBabel-on-the-Bay: Don’t count the Liberals out in Ontario.
It has been a bit disquieting lately to see the progressive bloggers’ web site infiltrated by conservatives. In checking to see what people are saying these days, I came across a conservative who was telling readers why he was voting for Patrick Brown in the Ontario PC leadership fiasco. Rather
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