Still, if calling on the army in the middle of the ice storm was met with derision by Mr. Kelly’s own admission, the suggestion of doing it now, to help the city deal with branch and twig cleanup, is beyond ridiculous.
The Star – Dec 27, 2013: Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly, the city’s de facto leader and the premier’s key contact on issues related to the ice storm, flew to Florida on Christmas for a holiday dinner with his family. He returned to Toronto the next day.
… “In public life, you tend to ignore family events. The scope of my immediate family is declining in numbers. And it was very important for me to be there,”
The Star – June 24, 2011: “It makes (Ford) look petty, stubborn and mean. It is an embarrassment for a city that proclaims its diversity to the world. . . Whether he means to or not, he has left the unfortunate and probably mistaken impression that he has a problem with gays and lesbians.”
And lest you think, “well, he’s just the deputy mayor who was never elected by the people of Toronto to be in charge,” his ward is Scarborough, the worst hit by the power outages.
Sue-Ann Levy is covering the story.
Toronto politicians took on Wednesday a key step toward building the city’s first gayfocused sports and recreation centre… expected to cost about $100-million, one-third of which would be funded by the three levels of government.
The tipster made the following claims:
• Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smokes crack cocaine.
• There is a video of Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine, taken within the last six months.
• Rob Ford purchases his crack cocaine from a crew of Toronto drug dealers that service a veritable who’s who of A-list…Torontonians? Torontites? Anyway, a lot of prominent people in Toronto purchase and enjoy crack and powder cocaine, and they all buy it from the same folks. The same folks Ford buys it from. Ford’s longtime friend, people on his staff, his brother, a prominent hockey analyst, and more.
Blazing Cat Fur is following along – read the comments. All I have to say is, Gawker better hope that video emerges – if it exists. If it doesn’t come out, if it gets buried by the Fords, if it doesn’t really exist, they are on the hook for a major lawsuit. Six figures for a video will seem small potatoes.
It was all about the show and spreading the myths for the Tag Team, who were too busy looking at their smartphones, smirking at the presenters, talking to like-minded leftist bureacrats…
(Councillor Shelley) Carroll made herself busy… passing around cookies.
(emphasis mine)
Look, you don’t have to like casinos – there’s discussion about putting one here in Cambridge and I’d rather they didn’t. If they decide Hespeler, I’ll be out there with the signs myself – but you act like an adult when you’re disagreeing. You act like a responsible councillor, drawing a six figure salary and responsible for a budget of millions of dollars. You don’t treat possible investors like this, and you save the cookies for the breaks.
Related: Rubes saying ‘no’ to world-class city
… Day 4
He said:
I don’t know if she’s playing with a full deck
She said:
Sarah Thomson: I thought Mayor Rob Ford was on cocaine
Hey big guy: sober up, you’re the mayor – this picture should embarrass you. And funny hair girl, grow up and stop looking for the Toronto Star to fight your battles for you.
And finally, to the media of Toronto: Ass-Gate is lame.
In case you miss it, the headline above is irony:
Mayor Rob Ford has been punted from office, just days short of celebrating his second anniversary of being sworn in.
Judge Charles Hackland’s eagerly awaited decision in a conflict of interest case was handed down at 10 a.m. Monday at a downtown courthouse.
Did you vote for Rob Ford for mayor. Silly citizen, this is democracy in name only. Vote in the approved patterns, and all is OK. But go outside the guidelines allowed by your betters, and we have judges.
Frankly, it’s getting close to the time to let chaos reign.
So Rob Ford requests charitable donations so that “at risk youth” can play football. On the letterhead were the words From the Office of Mayor Rob Ford. Bingo, bango, boingo, conflict of interest, sanctions, and a court case that could see a mere judge overrule the clear will of the electorate.
If you’re a left-wing councillor do you:
a) Support Ford, recognizing that he is doing what you say you support, i.e. using sports to direct possible gang members away from crime?
b) Recognize that the frivolousness of the charge vs. the seriousness of the consequence is worrying. The fact that overturning an uncontested election result over using wrong letterhead on a charitable fundraiser is a very slippery slope indeed?
c) Worry that the possible precedence will bring chaos to municipal politics, and be concerned that you had made a minor error that will see some activist constituent have you thrown out of office on frivolous charges?
d) Measure the Mayors office for drapes?
The corpse isn’t even a corpse yet and some on council are said to be floating a takeover plan…
“Joe Mihevic would be perfect in my view… It makes sense since you take away his face and behind it you basically have David Miller.”
It’s called a coup, and when this case is done, the lawyers are paid and put to bed, serious people need to investigate what’s going in here, and if laws have been broken. The protection of our democracy demands it.
More.
Councillor Doug Ford got steamed up over the idea of the city spending $1.2 million on a bike station….
The station would have 380 spots for bikes and include showers…
…he heard what sounded like “an explosion or a bullet” when a piece of the Gardiner Expressway fell on his Mercedes.
Juxtaposed to this:
“He (Mayor Rob Ford) should be in the parade on July 1st; he should be here today” (Councillor Janet) Davis insisted. The residents of Toronto and the LGBT community should have answers for why he’s not here. It’s his job.”
Davis said there was nothing more important than being at the flag raid
sing Monday
Back when I first noted Toronto was in a death spiral, it was suggested I was being overly negative because I didn’t like the then mayor. That’s missing the point. It’s about priorities. The mayors most important job is to ensure that chunks of concrete aren’t falling off one of the busiest sections of highway in North America, not to attend a parade or flag raising event. Yet Councillor Davis is treated as if she’s making a point instead of sounding like a complete moron.
Although she’s right about one thing, the Mayor of Canada’s largest city should be marching in a parade July 1st: he should be front and centre in the cities Dominion Day Parade. Or am I the only one starting to resent the fact this group has completely taken over the national holiday?
“No nickel-fee on plastic bags,” Said Mayor Ford.
“It’s uncompetitive,” said the Toronto Taxpayer Coalition.
“Ah, screw it,” said the looneys.
For the record, David Shiner is listed as “right of centre” on wikipedia. This, City of Toronto, is your alternative voice to all those left-wing down-town councillors.
The suggested “fix” to the road hockey “problem” sounds like a parody.
In order to qualify for an exemption from the bylaw, a resident would not only have to canvass all the neighbours and get at least 80% of them to give the okay for junior to play ball; the resident would also have to get city staff to conduct a traffic study on his street…
because that exemption is only going to happen if the street in question sees 1,000 or fewer vehicles each day, with an average gap between the cars of at least one minute, and sightlines deemed appropriate by city staff.
pimply minions of bureaucracy, Toronto: Not in a Death Spiral
I would highly encourage every person that is going top move to at least contact the Canadian Association of Movers.
OK, Det. Kevin Hooper has offered good advice, since calling the police will do you no good when some unethical mover steals your furniture and holds it ransom, at least call the Canadian Association of Movers.
But we now need the city to add, lifting heavy furniture to the long and growing list of occupations they need to licence? How about a law that makes puts the onus on the moving company to prove they haven’t been paid. That way, when the police are called in one of these disputes, they can force the moving company to release the furniture if there is no paperwork. Problem solved.
Of course, the police don’t want to solve disputes anymore, they want to enforce big government.
So, here’s what you really do. First, by all means call the association of movers as advised. Then, stock up your car trunk with baseball bats, and a knife large enough to disable a moving truck tire or 3. Now, when the furniture doesn’t come off the truck, let them be the ones who are screaming for the police.
Toronto will become “the biggest pimp in North America”
It was a secret meeting… a few people were told of the meeting and it was by invitation only.
The “secret meeting,” Giorgio Mammoliti is talking about? One where the “invited staffers” and owners of 25 “massage or body rub parlours,” were discussing increasing the liscences for body rub parlours from 25 to “several hundred.”
Police have said the clubs are a cover for prostitution.
Ask yourself, when was increasing massage parlours and prostitution a ballot issue? If they are going to discuss multiplying the number of these places, shouldn’t you have a say?
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