Make it illegal for streetcars to block vehicles too. How about bicycles waving in and out traffic? Pedestrians jaywalking? Man, I will be rich. :)

Ah, you can taste the bitterness in the air. Now the truth is out, could any Ford supporter raise your hand and voice your regret please? :) One political dirty trick outplayed another political dirty trick and the innocent/naive people of Toronto are shocked. Bravo. No thanks to Ford of...

Well, I guess he did a pretty bad job at that then.

Then I am guess consumer price is artificially depressed too. In the 80s we had double digit inflation, now we barely have 2%. What happened? Big conspiracy theory! Guess what, that's how market works. Supply and demand determines the price, or in this case the salary. Nobody said real wages...

Sorry to hear about your ordeal and I wish you the best. No argument there. There are always exceptional cases. And I am certainly not arguing for doing away with social safety net altogether.

It has nothing to do with ideology. Moral hazards is a natural phenomenal, not a political catch phrase. Denying that is like denying global warming. It's harmful no matter whether you acknowledge it or not. If you can prove the spending $X in social housing would generate $Z future taxes...

Didn't I say that "even he acknowledge that Regent Park mostly voted for Smitherman and Bridle Path mostly voted for Ford. I don't see an explanation for that."?

Where did you see moral superiority? Did I say taking heroin was wrong? On the contrary, I have said repeatedly that everybody is entitled to make live decisions however they see fit. I just ask them to accept the consequences of their decisions. If I was a drug counselor, I would be happy to...

If you want to gamble, you have to accept the consequences of your choices, good or bad. I have no sympathy for anybody who complains that the recent market crash wiped out their savings just before retirement. What are they doing in the stock market just before retirement? Wherever there are...

No, it doesn't. These are service jobs, not manufacturing jobs. The big difference is that manufacturing worker pool includes foreign workers, whereas service jobs (with some exceptions) are very hard to out source. Unless they invent remotely controlled ED-209 soon, it's pretty hard for a...

No, you are right, it's never a clear cut. I was simply pointing out the two extreme views and the vast majority of people are somewhere in between.

I am sorry, but how many manufacturing jobs is the public sector of the city of Toronto providing again?

Toronto have tons of transit stops, which ones are cheap and not a dump? Markham town center is becoming the silicon valley of Canada. Companies move there for a reason. On the flip side, all the major banks are in downtown and they are there for a reason too.

They don't have to come to Canada if they think it's tough, nobody forced them. They made a conscious decision and they have to live with the consequences. There are exceptions, but they are a very small minority. I also suspect it's not very tough for them. Most immigrants I know are very...

Poverty is not a motivator for crime, stupidity, laziness and lack of discipline are. Well, petty crime that is. White collar crimes kind of require white collar jobs. Lenience of the law is another major motivator. If somebody is going to die in the streets despite GIS+OAS, I doubt throwing...

Which is probably not very good for your eyes. Subway is better, the sun is very harmful on a moving bus/street car.

Which would of course make these locations more expensive and thus less attractive to businesses.

It's not alarmist by any mean, it's simply another article painting Ford supporters as uneducated, unsophisticated brutes. It's just people finally realized that immigrants support Ford and start to call them uneducated and unsophisticated too. Of course, even he acknowledge that Regent Park...

Ah, you see, that's exact what I pointed out before the election. There are some people who love Toronto whereas for other people Toronto is nothing more than a place to live and work in. The later group won the election for Ford. Neither does anybody else's number. It's not about the...

First of all, even without CPP, seniors have good income via OAS+GIS. It's not a lot, but should allow them to live comfortably in a cheap bachelor apartment. Basement apartments probably cost even less. I wouldn't bet that the social safety net will continue to be there by the time I retire...