Sigh, do you really think it warrant an answer? Do you really think Rob Ford would waste money on this forum? If you have to have an answer, then here it is: No, Rob Ford is not paying me. Nor did he pay the 47% of the voters who voted for him. He is not that rich. Satisfied?

I think what every government should do is to keep a very clear trail of money instead of having a general revenue pool. It not only cut waste, it also makes a lot of projects much easier to sell.

And why exactly did you call him?

You misunderstood me. You were attacking me by implying I took money from Ford. That's petty and you know it. I am not twisting this into immigration. The very first post of this thread is about immigrants voting for Ford and I am telling you why that is happening. You didn't want to listen...

So don't drag manufacture workers and other private sector employees into this argument. They don't benefit from public waste, why use them as an excuse? They don't care whether they are in the same demographic group as public employees making 6 figure salaries. So we wasted all those money...

"The dispute relates to a legal action launched by the two families after the shooting. " This is getting ridiculous. The police is ultimately paid by the taxpayers. So you want taxpayers to foot the bill for every single lawsuits against police? You roll your dice by suing the police (or...

I don't think so. The right most lane would be the parking lane and slow lane during peak hour. The second lane would be for street cars and slower traffic (but not turning traffic since they would be in the right most lane). The third and forth lane would be for faster traffic. I am not sure...

I would say that you should take people for a walk in Regent Park and then tell them this is one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Toronto. I think a lot of people will be impressed.

First of all, this has nothing to with manufacture workers since the city is not hiring manufacture workers. Unless you want all manufacture workers to go drive garbage trucks. Well, guess what, they can't do that either since the union monopolized all the garbage collection works. Secondly...

What can I say? You assumed wrong. So? Ford is a Torontonian. Does that mean he would know what people of Toronto think without doing some research? I am not defending anybody. I am telling you a fact. If you don't believe me, you can go do some consultation and report back. If Ford is...

And Smitherman's problem is that he lost. Either the people were deceived, or Ford represents their views. You choose. Elitism has nothing to do with the subject, it's the belief that you know better, thus you can make decisions for people without consulting them. Did nifitz ask Asian...

As I have explained previously, these jobs can't be out sourced. Shutting private workers out of the garbage collection market does not make any sense. First of all, I am not arguing against unions. Contracting out garbage collection does not mean private sector workers can't form unions and...

While I agree with you that there may be some corrupted cops, I don't see any in this thread. We haven't seen any that takes money or grants favours to families or shields organized crimes. Even if all the allegations were true, unless the cops enjoy killing or beating people up, these are...

The beauty of democracy is that it would not allow a group self-righteous elitists to hijack the will of the people for long. Whether these elitists are communists, fascists or simply some self-claimed architects. I know you proud yourself as an anti-bigot bigot, but I hope you are not...

Cost aside, that's an interesting idea. Streetcars don't even need to have their own lane since cars will be able to pass to the right. This will help both cars and public transit. You might want to write to Ford about it.

You also thought Ford had no chance of winning and he was against immigrants. Yet immigrants voted Ford in. I didn't say Ford was a commoner, just like Smitherman wasn't exactly an architect (neither is adma I suspect). Ford was supported by the commoners whereas Smitherman was supported by...

Commoners won, out of touch elitists who like to control what private houses look like lost. Doesn't sound so bad to me. As I have been saying, people are fed up with elitists' "visions" and these so called "visions" being forced onto them. It was not about average income, or family size or...

Please explain what's the relationship between globalization and contracting out garbage collection. Are we contracting them out to China or India? Are we going to have somebody sitting in Mumbai remotely driving our garbage trucks?

Because he got nothing better to say? Every forum got one of those people who like to issue petty attacks. The best thing to do is to ignore them.

So don't call the police next time you are in trouble, easy. :) This thread is getting pretty pointless. Even if you were right, what are you going to do about it? Nothing. If you truly believe that the police is totally corrupted, the SIU is with them, the prosecutors are on their payrolls...