They're not "folks". For Ford, it's about hitting the solar plexus of "folks". Just like re OP and OSC, the public, those treasured "folks", don't give two hoots about Zeidler or Moriyama, You can be sure that at heart, that'd be his party line to alibi his grand plans.

If they're moving from the 17% range to the 22% range and breathing down the Libs' neck, seat gains are a given--unless the Cons soar into Mulroney-majority territory and negate any of that.

Or in this present SSW byelection, repeat fringer Reginald Tull.

And besides, when it comes to the Islands, one can see Doug Ford trying to use the 2017 floods as an alibi to clear out the cottages from Wards & Algonquin. And big deal about 99-years leases there; you can be sure DoFo will try to explore what kind of notwithstanding-clause or...

I noticed some report on debate at Queen's Park where Kinga Surma claimed, on behalf of Ontario Place's recent history of neglect, Live Nation having to cancel its 2017 events due to flooding. Well, duh, that was the year of the record floods that wracked *all* of the waterfront, most...

I guess this is a sequel to his earlier labelling of the Greenbelt as a "scam". Like, when he's *really* under pressure, he doubles down on the plot-by-fringe-elites rhetoric... https://globalnews.ca/news/10103918/greenbelt-land-return-bill-two-hoots-doug-ford/

So whose side is *he* on?

Taking a bus ride through SSW, I notice that *both* Rupasinghe *and* Roy are using the AOC "slanted letter" motif in their signage (also used by Chemi Lhamo in her challenge-from-the-left of Gord Perks last year). Also, is Michelle Holland/Berardinetti still in any position of...

Ontario Place *contained* water park elements; but it never precisely *was* a "water park" in the way that various Wild Water Kingdoms or Action Park in NJ were--even if that's the impressionistic image a lot of kids latterly going there got. Or grownups taking their kids there who'd otherwise...

And of course, the problem w/a thrill park is that you'd only be compounding the havoc committed upon the OP Zeidler/Hough "heritage elements".

It's not what it is, it's the way that you do it (thus my Mount Splashmore tacky-negative-archetype point)

I'd rather have a park by the water than a water park (i.e. in the cheesy Mount Splashmore sense--even if that's what a lot of younger people most remember OP for)

It's like he keeps pivoting into some kind of Krusty "Hey Hey!" mode.

Though one must say that Gaza was an unforeseen tripwire for all of this--even if Jama's record was already "known" going into the byelection. And because this is all so very sudden and "circumstantial", I also have my skepticism about the likes of the Sun's Brian Lilley stating w/confidence...

Well, that's more casually easy to do. Whereas "city limits" are--or were, in the days of physical maps and before megamergers ran amok--clear and sacrosanct. Or, the proverbial official "Wackyland" sign announcing a place and its population held more gravity than even the start of subdivision...

Re actual municipalities and boundaries: is the apparent dissolution of Peel Region or other threatened "mega-amalgamations" off the table? (Besides, it's more like Mike Harris did most of the dirty work on that front, and Ford's concerns have been more w/laying a pipe bomb beneath municipal...

What I find interesting (and maybe telling, about modern-day perceptions) is the apparent confusion btw/*urban* boundaries and *municipal* boundaries. The former relates more to zoning; the latter relates to jurisdiction i.e. the proverbial "city limits". Municipal boundaries = all those...

As do all such "left" parties, cf Jeremy Corbyn in the UK. At least the ONDP isn't *led* by a Corbyn type.

More on grounds of the dull barrel-bottom "bureaucratic Moderne" replacement and its fortress-like stance relative to the corner. However, to be fair, the original would almost certainly have been viewed as nothing more than a dated eyesore in the 1930s...

And even if there remains a lack of clarity on that front, the individual seats will make a difference--that is, 35-27-27 province-wide doesn't mean every PC seat is headed for a 35-27-27 equivalent result. And we know from the current Polish parliamentary election how strategic alliances among...