Lordy. Fan me with a feather. It look as if Rob Ford has really done it this time. Not only has he been totally humiliated. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has called his council’s tumultuous debate on the future of the city’s transit “irrelevant” after it dealt him a major defeat
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RedBedHead: Like You Needed To Be Told The Ford Bros Were Full Of S**T
Here was Mayor Rob Ford’s equally odious brother, Doug Ford at the transit debate on Wednesday: “The St. Clair streetcar is a total disaster.” Ahem..oh, really? Much maligned St. Clair line not so bad after all – The Globe and Mail: “Since the June, 2010, completion of the right-of-way from
Continue readingRedBedHead: Thank Occupy For Mayor Ford’s Big Defeat
Of course I know that it was a revolt by city councillors against the hare-brained, disastrous transit “policy” of Toronto Mayor Rob “I love gridlock” Ford. And it was the sweetest of sweet defeats against the Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum who like to think that they run the show
Continue readingChris Tindal: Maybe we should have let Ford win
As the 2014 Toronto municipal election campaign wound down to a close, opponents of the mayor wondered what went wrong. Once again they had underestimated Rob Ford, the big guy from Etobicoke, and failed to grasp the appeal of his message. The simplistic sloganeering strategy of 2010—”Respect for taxpayers! Stop
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Has Toronto’s Mayor Become Irrelevant?
Photo of Rob Ford by Tannis Toohey for The Toronto Star Yesterday, Toronto City Council took over the lead on transit planning in the city and voted to reaffirm most of the LRT lines outlined in the Transit City plan. Council voted 25-18 to reaffirm what was already a binding
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Toronto Councillors To Vote For the Return of Most of Transit City
TTC Chair Karen Stintz Moves To Bury Rob Ford’s Subway This Wednesday, Toronto city council will vote to bring back most of the Transit City plan. 24 members of council have called the meeting to force this vote – a vote that should have happened a year ago, and a
Continue readingTrashy's World: Who’s a bigger idiot than Tim Thomas?
Rob Ford! That’s who! TORONTO – Mayor Rob Ford came out swinging at left-leaning councillors Tuesday. “These people are all two steps left of Joe Stalin,” Ford told AM 640 host John Oakley in a radio interview. Ford specifically referred to Councillors Adam Vaughan, Gord Perks, Janet Davis, Paula Fletcher and Josh
Continue readingThings Are Good: Board Game Jam 2012
Board Game Jam is happening in Toronto February 25-26! If you’ve ever wanted to make a game then this is a place to start! Here’s a special challenge to Things Are Good readers: make a game that is designed to educate or empower people to make the world a better
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: New column day
Here, on how the rewriting of Rob Ford’s budget by Toronto’s City Council should serve as a reminder that legislators at all levels of government can do more than merely rubber-stamp the whims of the executive. For further reading, see the Star’s report on the Toronto budget, and compare to
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Toronto Prevails Over Ford Nation in Budget Vote
Liveblog: City Council’s Final Debate on the 2012 Budget The people of Toronto can breathe a sigh of relief (for now). For the most part, the majority of Toronto City Council voted against the mayor Rob Ford’s plan to gut city services. Centrist rookie councilor Josh Colle moved to reverse
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: What Nursing Leadership Doesn’t Look Like
A small, belated Christmas tale on how not to manage an emergency department. But first a few preliminary points of information. First: in Ontario, front line nurses are generally forbidden from taking vacation over the Christmas holidays, usually from some point from the first or second week of December to
Continue readingG20 activist Amanda Hiscocks: I have no room for guilt or fear
Amanda Hiscocks to judge: “By focusing on the KKK’s tactics and not their politics you’ve missed the point entirely.” Go here for an excellent post on the woman facing a 16-month sentence for ‘counselling to obstruct police and counselling to commit mischief’ prior to the G20 protests. Read her full
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CANADIAN POLITICS TORONTO: NO TO BUDGET CUTS IN TORONTO: The following call out for protest against proposed budget cuts in the City of Toronto comes from the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP). **********************[ocap] Stop the Cuts – Final Ford Budget Showdown! Important Update on City Cuts: 1) January 17th Mobilization:
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Toronto City Budget – The Problem Is Ford
Numbers Game | Toronto Media Co-op The City budget is not and has never been in a financial crisis according to figures released by the Wellesley Institute, an urban health research and policy institute in Toronto.…Ford, along with the rest of the administration’s allies have often repeated the $774 million
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Canadian Politics Word(s) of the Year: 2011
Today is the final day for writing/releasing end-of-the-year posts. 2011 featured a federal election and provincial/territorial elections in Manitoba, Ontario, PEI, Newfoundland, Saskatchewan, Yukon and the NWT. At the end of 2011, Canada now has 4 female premiers (up from 2 at the beginning of the year), the BQ have
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Rob Ford and the Big Lie
Well at least we know one thing eh? When Rob Ford called 911 because he felt threatened by the comedian Marg Delahunty. And then used the F-word when talking to a dispatcher, because police didn’t come quickly enough. It wasn’t because they didn’t know where he lived. According to numerous
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