At Home in Hespeler

Just because Rob Ford is now his honour, doesn‘t mean the good ship Toronto is going to be righted. As Joe Warmington writes today, there’s more wrong with Toronto than Transit City and doughnuts at council meetings:

…Toronto’s first murderer of 2011 statistically has a better than a 50-50 chance of not getting caught….
Of the 60 homicides in 2010, more than half have not yet ended up in arrests which means as many as three dozen murderers may be walking free among us.

And that’s just in one year. In the first decade of the new millennium — from 2000 to 2010 — there were 220 unsolved murders in Toronto…

Toronto is not in a death spiral because of the politicians they chose, but the choices the politicians made, starting with the choice more than twenty years ago to overly-politicize their police force.

Toronto: Not in a Death Spiral Joe Warmington, Rob Ford, Toronto, Toronto Police

Joe Warmington Gets it (emphasis mine):

Like a giant boa constrictor, they are slowly sucking the breath out of the lives of Ontarians and the lifestyles they’ve come to know…

The public is too busy paying taxes to keep track of how this land is becoming is [sic] a giant tax, fee and regulation society that builds very little, except massive debt to pay for bureaucratic insanity.

It seems the whole game is more about saving their false economy…

They are rapidly eroding the life we understand and replacing it with a collection business, which seems to be the only industry thriving on Ontario.

Dalton, Premier Dad, writers Joe Warmington, Premier Dad