2014: Year in Preview
We don’t know what will make headlines in 2014. After all, most political predictions are about as accurate as a Forum poll. So I won’t try to guess how 2014…
Toronto Municipal politics
Persons of the Year
Every December, I like to name a “Person of the Year” – the individual who left their mark on Canadian politics over the past year. The only rules are that…
Let he who is without sin…
“You know what, I’m not perfect.. Maybe you are, but I’m not.” -Rob Ford Rob is right. We should all cut the guy some slack. After all, who among us…
Remember when the big Rob Ford controversy was that he talked on his cell phone while driving?
Warning – very graphic language.
Great Moments in Scandal Management
Ford makes Torontonians long for the statesmanlike leadership of Mel Lastman. “Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But no, do I, am I an addict? No. Have I tried it?…
The vast left-wing media conspiracy against Rob Ford grows
Yes, the news is bad for the mayor, but c’mon, the Sun has always had it in for him…
John Tory will save us from ourselves
John Tory announced today that he is considering campaigning to be Mayor of Toronto in 2014. All I can say is, thank god. “I’m being asked to think about and…
As Easy As 1-2-3
Something good happened at Toronto City Hall this week. I know, I know. I’m as surprised as you are. Councillors vote to seek end of ‘first past the post’ system…
Great Moments in Spin
I can’t wait to see the tourism brochures: Toronto mayor Rob Ford is still dodging allegations that he smoked crack cocaine, but now he seems to think there’s a silver…
Cone of Silence
Rob Ford and Stephen Harper are about as different as two politicians can be, but the one thing they have in common is an uncanny ability to brush off scandals…
Goodbye
Rob Ford is removed as Mayor of Toronto, and Mark Carney is flying across the pond to become Governor of the Bank of England. If any politician is looking to…
Mayor Fordzilla Taking Campaign Lessons From Steve Harper
Yes, this puffy faced buffoon has been in office for a year now and how does he celebrate? Why, he begins to go into permanent campaign mode, of course! “Three…
Fun with cluster analysis
This is really a propos nothing in particular, but I stumbled across a nifty bit of analysis looking at the voting records of Toronto City Councillors. Using a cluster classification,…
Lemme Get This Straight…
Mayor Boss Hogg and his brother sidekick Donut Dougy say that cuts are necessary to things like school crossing guards, school lunch programs to impoverished children, dental programs for children,…
Giorgio Mammoliti– A Great Shirriff Roscooooo P Coltrane To Mayor Boss Hogg
Yes, ol’ Giorgio Mammoliti has been really becoming unhinged as of late. McCarthyism is indeed alive and well over at City Hall. A Facebook group that won’t allow ‘commies’, although,…
Mary Trapani Hynes AKA Next Mayor of Toronto?
Mary Trapani Hynes, a senior, was among the deputants who came to let Mayor Boss Hogg, his brother Donut Dougy and the rest of the clan know how they felt…
Ford Puppet Shows His Contempt For Constituents
As many Torontonians would know, today is the day City Council is having a meeting with constituents to discuss cutting ‘gravy’. Poor long suffering Giorgio Mammoliti, he apparently is longing…
Dougy Ford, Perhaps If You Actually Set Foot In a Library, You Might Learn Who Margaret Atwood Is
Oh, poor, long suffering Dougy Ford, city councillor, side kick to his brother Mayor Rob “Boss Hogg” Fordzilla. Always the bridesmaid, but not the mayor. He seems to be bitching…