There are lots of other interesting threads in the forumI'm actually suffering from separation anxiety. This is the most intelligent discourse I get in a day.
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There are lots of other interesting threads in the forumI'm actually suffering from separation anxiety. This is the most intelligent discourse I get in a day.
100 years ago perhaps. Who in the 1990s would join a white-only social club in the first place?
It speaks tons about character. As does supporting the likes of Rob Ford and Randy Hillier. You just walk away.
Just heard Doug saying he shops at WalMart. I guess that's where Karla's Prada purse came from.
but really ... who'd join a white-only club in the first place?
Globe and Mail said:Rosedale Golf Club
The players: Retired TD Bank CEOs Charlie Baillie and Dick Thomson, Royal Bank CEO Gord Nixon, former McDonald's CEO George Cohon, hernia doctor Bernie Shouldice. Former CTV head Doug Bassett has a clubhouse membership for entertaining.
The ticket: The initiation fee is $60,000, with annual dues (in 2002) of $3,500. And don't forget the GST.
The cliché: You are a mining baron, you run a bank.
The cachet: Puts a new spin on the term "waiting list." From the day you get a member to vouch for you to the day you become a senior member, count on a 12-year wait. A moment's drive from your Rosedale mansion, which is nice. A beautiful, green oasis in the heart of the city, blends into the neighbourhood seamlessly. How old-school is it? Women members (they call them ladies) have restricted tee times; men get first dibs. Holes don't have tee markers. If you have to ask where the next hole is, you don't belong.
Just heard Doug saying he shops at WalMart. I guess that's where Karla's Prada purse came from.
100 years ago perhaps. Who in the 1990s would join a white-only social club in the first place?
It speaks tons about character. As does supporting the likes of Rob Ford and Randy Hillier. You just walk away.
It would be nice to crack 100,000 posts before we shut this down.
Rob will still be mayor after election day. It's not over until his chain of office goes to John Tory (or whatever's supposed to happen in Nov).
Well, I confess ignorance to who Shouldice is actually. Though if a banned minority tries to join the organization banning them ... hmm ... presumably their membership postdates the exclusion of such groups - though has Rosedale yet admitted anyone who is non-white? I certainly don't have any information that they have.Do you suggest same of George Cohon and Bernie Shouldice?
He wasn't on the same page, but Tory had his opportunity and either remove Hillier as a Conservative candidate, or denounce him. And yet he did neither and stayed in the system and put up with him. I don't suggest for a second that Tory was on the same page ... however if he had concerns about Hillier, he didn't publicly state them.When was Tory ever on the same page as Hillier? I would suggest never....
If he was as centrist as everyone claimed, he could have instead contributed to Rossi - a very right-wing Liberal. That he would have considered Ford acceptable despite all the issues we knew about him in 2010, simply because he was a Conservative - instead of considering a Liberal, is evidence of what I've been pointing out ... Tory is not the centrist that many here are painting him....who else would Tory have contributed to or are you suggesting he not have contributed at all to anyone in 2010?
Not sure how. Simply because Ford is what he is ... doesn't mean what he's saying about Tory is factually wrong.You're repeating Doug Ford's dirty politics.
Didn't say he's okay. Said it is probably overboard to say he's someone who has been unable to cope as a functioning adult. None of us know him personally. Early on the story was that Gord Perks was good for hanging in the smoking area with him.Yeah---he's a prick and an outrageous liar, but he's okay, really.
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@BautistaBomb @joe_warmington I was running for charity this morning. And you? I know I know. 4 u charity begins at home.
OK, but w/o reading his platform but assuming it pushes right of centre solutions that housing advocates also espouse, his solutions would lose him NIMBY right wing votes (properly license rooming houses on my street? Never!) and all left wing votes not already lost (dismantle the horrible bureaucracy of TCHC and sell off the buildings piecemeal to properly vetted private landlords? Never!)
A housing debate does not win Tory one single, solitary vote, and might lose him thousands.
So do I... and to be kind, he would be fighting for a fair wage to survive like a lot of people.