Classy! (Photo from Dammit Janet.) There’s something wrong with Rob Ford. We all know he’s trash. But there’s an undercurrent of rage surrounding the man that’s almost Alec Baldwinish. Marg Delahunty is one thing; drunken threats another. On Christmas, Ford’s mother-in-law called police between 4 and 5 a.m. to report that the mayor had
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Rob Ford’s 911 problem
Classy! (Photo from Dammit Janet.) There’s something wrong with Rob Ford. We all know he’s trash. But there’s an undercurrent of violence and abuse that’s almost Alec Baldwinish. This man should not be mayor, let alone husband or parent. Then again, the man is king of Toronto; he gets to
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford: Coward of the Year
2011 Villain: Rob Ford | NoIndex | Torontoist Rob Ford campaigned on lies, and blatant lies at that. A tough man in his position would fess up and admit he was mistaken about Toronto’s finances (or, alternatively, admit that he purposefully deceived the Toronto electorate so he could become mayor,
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Conservatives Betray Canadians with U.S. Steel Deal
DECEMBER 12, 2011 | MEDIA RELEASE TORONTO – The Conservative government has betrayed working families in Hamilton and Nanticoke by dropping its court case against U.S. Steel despite the company’s clear violations of federal law. …Read More
Continue readingExcited Delirium: Toronto’s ‘Emergency’ Warning
Toronto: it’s time to stand up to Ford’s lies.
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob & Doug wasting Toronto Money – Again
Toronto agency backed by Mayor Ford spent $55,000 on single-source contracts – The Globe and Mail Asked if there was a discrepancy between his anti-sole-source rhetoric and his backing of sole-source waterfront proposals, he said “it all depends” before referring all further questions to Michael Kraljevic, president and CEO of
Continue readingThings Are Good: One Millionth Tower
One Millionth Tower is a new interactive documentary on the hyper-local level focusing on Kipling Ave. in Toronto. It’s a logical follow up to Out my Window (we’ve looked at it before) and explores how participatory urban design can change our highrise urban landscape. The highrise re-imagined. One Millionth Tower
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford = Fundamentally Undemocratic
Toronto mayor feuds with Canada’s biggest daily Conter likened Ford’s war against the media to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s tight limits on media access during the recent election race, during which he only allowed five questions from reporters at each daily news conference during campaigning. “With the five questions, it
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Rob Ford’s Budget Con Job – "a giant scam being perpetrated on the citizens of Toronto."
The Grid TO | Budget 2012: Rob Ford’s sleight of hand If Rob Ford hadn’t cut or cancelled all those taxes, we’d have enough to cover the entire budget hole without eliminating a single bus route, library hour or arts grant, without laying off a single staff member, and without
Continue readingTrashy's World: This shows quite clearly…
… how childish and petty the “Mayor” of Toronto can be! Mayor Ford has no obligation to speak to or be interviewed by the Star. That is entirely his choice. However, when it comes to public press releases and public notifications from his office as mayor of all the people,
Continue readingThings Are Good: Using Food to Better the World
The West End Food Co-op in Toronto is looking to incorporate food production and consumption into bettering their local neighbourhood. The West End Food Co-op has 500 members so far, including 20 farmers. Dinner expects another 1,500 to sign up by the end of next year. (Membership costs only $5.)
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Toronto G20 Protests – Police Officers Were Given Orders to Make Illegal Arrests
Toronto News: Man settles G20 lawsuit, claims police brass ordered false arrests – thestar.com Officers detaining Wall on June 27, 2010, told OPIRD investigators they were instructed to arrest people wearing bandanas, masks or gas masks concealing their identity. One officer said he was told to search anyone with a
Continue readingHow’s that whole Rob Fordy thing goin’ for ya, 905?
Serves you right (emphasis mine): Mayor Rob Ford’s proposed 2012 budget would close some swimming and wading pools and homeless shelters, cut programs for student nutrition, AIDS prevention and arts, and reduce street sweeping. The budget unveiled by Ford on Monday morning would also raise taxes by 2.5 per cent, hike
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Blog Navel Gazing – Tweet Heard ‘Round The World
I’ve never had a tweet of mine be ReTweeted so much. It was an excerpt from a Facebook post that got liked and shared by about 15 people by this point, but the Tweet is at 83 ReTweets, and that doesn’t count the dozen or more who’ve rephrased it and
Continue readingPample the Moose: History and the Santa Claus Parade Weekend
There’s a history connection here, just wait for it! This weekend is Santa Claus Parade weekend in Toronto, where I grew up, and coincidentally in Guelph, where I live. It’s an important weekend in my family’s history, because this was traditionally the weekend when the no-talking-about-Christmas embargo was temporarily lifted
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Awesome
A few days ago, we had VSA come into the department. According to EMS, the patient had collapsed while grocery shopping down the road; CPR was started almost immediately by another shopper; EMS arrived and gave the usual ACLS drugs — epinephrine and atropine, as well as defribrillating him, but
Continue readingThose Emergency Blues: Under Construction
Meaning me, of course. I worked a (rare) Night 12 a few days ago. It was the usual dog’s breakfast of high acuity, walking wounded without end lining up at Triage, and the particular Emergency Department hell of having no beds for, you know, emergency patients, the department being a
Continue readingAnonymous threatens Rob Ford with internet takedown if Occupy Toronto removed
If Rob Ford goes through with his threat to forcibly remove peaceful Occupy Toronto next week, Anonymous warns that it is prepared to take action against Ford’s administration by ‘removing the internet’.
H/T: @min_reyes
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Equality and Education
We live in a society that now ostensibly accepts equality and egalitarianism as a normative moral basis for our society. Not just the founding principles of classical liberalism with equal rights to speech, association, religion, and the like, but a…
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