It's more that your conviction about the Ford Tories headed for another majority *feels* a bit skewed by your "one voter" perspective--particularly given the escalating scale of scandal here. That is, we're getting to the point where the only plausible alibi to be confident of his reelection...

In that case, you might as well slam down the firewall on *any* left-leaning government out of fear that it'll tripwire an opposite reaction next time around. Which also goes for, municipally, David Miller as a foretaste of Rob Ford--and maybe Olivia Chow re whomever comes *after* her. Or...

Besides, while I mentioned 1990 provincially, I could just as well have offered 2015 federally, when it looked like the HarperCons were a shoe-in because the Libs were decimated in '11 and the NDP had that "can't trust in government" stigma carried over from such things as...1990 provincially.

1990 circumstances happen, just warning you.

Actually, it isn't about *whether* GWL is a popular family attraction or not; it's about the *kind* of "popular family attraction" it is. Or to reiterate my quote... That "beast that ate Niagara Falls" notion actually *acknowledges* GWL's "popularity-to-a-fault", so to speak Or to drag this...

Just to clarify re the snip in your quote from myself (in case nobody refers to the source of said quote): my reference to "insulated alternative environments" for people who acutely fear the city referred to Great Wolf Lodge, not to Clifton Hill.

Actually, while it's *buffered* from the falls, Clifton Hill *isn't* so "removed" from the falls as GWL--it's really just an uphill walk, after all. In fact, that "urban symbiosis", that relative proximity/immediacy of the falls, has *always* been part of the electricity of Clifton Hill. It...

Yeah, his putting Great Wolf Lodge up front is problematic--there, we *really are* dealing with "ordinary people"; heck, I'd claim it to be crasser, in its way, than Clifton Hill, mainly through its insular denial of its own crassness. As such, it's more like the Great Canadian Casino Resort at...

May I tell you something--raw juvenile nostalgia isn't always the best perspective to bring to the table. Other than the bumper boats (you're talking about the ones below the pods, right?), none of those were "original" OP features, they were features added on to "justify" the place as a public...

Well, yes, if not outright "traditional". And more often than not (especially these days), it's a reflection of either the institution or the benefactors in question. As for the institution here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Point_University Private university affiliated with the...

Actually, in some existential way, I see Ford's modus operandi as one that normalizes the act of "covering up" in the name of "moving forward" and "serving the people". Sort of like his weasel way of overwriting heritage and environmental laws and protections and official statements in...

Sound familiar? https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4150805-raskin-compares-trump-white-house-to-putins-kremlin/

I don't know if it even survived into the 60s, much less the 70s--though when the White Rose brand was phased out in the mid-60s after being taken over by Shell, *its* sign was replaced by the "Trust Royal Trust" array that lasted through the 70s

And that Kanata Liberal was even higher-profile (a former Liberal MP and leadership contender). And even w/that factor, the NDP did even *more* surprisingly solidly there--in a seat which, technically, had been provincially Tory since...Confederation?

Though let's remember--the Registry building was demolished when it could be. And the fact that it lingered a little longer alongside the new complex simply reflects that it still served a function for some of that interim--much as the old Eatons store served until the N half of the Eaton...

Who were the 3 against?

You mean Saunders/Sanders? Anyway, if there's any way to *discourage* voting, it's to insist upon ranked ballots for a 102-candidate situation.

Isn't that sort of like DoFo's yen t/w being super-super-duper emphatic: "110%" and other such purple embellishments...

You know DoFo's antsy when he falls back on the alibi that the Greenbelt was some made-up Liberal thing.