no, i think not. i live between canada and sf, and i travel widely. i think that most of what's wrong with toronto is rooted in a rah-rah provincialism that achieves its fullest form in the suburbs around toronto, and i despise it an find it embarrassing. i haven't any desire to visit the...

sorry, all my experience supports my snarky observation. once the train to pearson is done, i'll never see another suburb again

there's your tale of two cities right there. pretty much the perfect metaphor for the non-416 "toronto"

reporter: "mr mayor, are you drunk right now?" no response

http://gawker.com/cnn-misplaces-toronto-1457230223 on a more serious note, a friend from germany wrote to hector me about the crack addict mayor, he read about it in the berlin metro paper.

people with active twitter accounts should start tweeting something to bring the press' attention to this being a global disgrace for the city of toronto; with how sensitive torontonians are to the city's reputation, a campaign framed that way would put things in perspective in a way that the...

it really is a shame that rob ford has injected such a divisive, vitriolic serum into our politics that we'd cheer his utter implosion. like, everyone loses with this saga, it has truly debased the discourse and brought out the worst in everyone, progressives were unwittingly drawn into his...

bah, rob ford isn't going down, not by a long shot. he still has loads of "now the left is politicizing the tps"-type stuff to throw around, he can still hunker down on taxes and 'us vs downtown' (that is, toronto vs the recently appended suburbs), he can simply ignore it all, etc. the guy is...

how anyone could complain about bourdain's profile is beyond me, pure manna from a promotional perspective. so he minorly slagged toronto's poor architecture, the guy's from fucking manhattan, and he has visited practically every major city on earth. by his standards, toronto's built form is...

"losing faith in torontonians" haha, well, considering the areas that were appended to the city... seriously, like kathleen: demerge the cities, let toronto develop as it should.

his eyes are like barely open and nothing of what he says is even remotely coherent. plus he's slurring, swaying from side to side, with that shit-eating grin. compare that with some of his shrieking in council, it's a different mindstate, for sure. eta: compare

haha, national post picks up rob ford's council nap http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/10/17/as-rob-ford-calls-for-firing-of-sleeping-city-employee-web-strikes-back-with-a-picture-of-mayor-allegedly-sleeping-on-job/

holy fuck is ford wasted at the aquarium opening! http://www.citynews.ca/2013/10/16/mayor-fords-favourite-fish-is-the-great-white-shark/ can't believe people see this and don't immediately begin to wonder what combo of booze/weed/pills/other he's on.

well, plastic bags were banned in san francisco and now people are using their own bags and businesses are using biodegradable plastic/paper, for which they charge - nooooo - 10 cents. it's a good idea and it's moronic and lazy to think that it's not worth trying to move in that direction (do a...

yeah, why would anyone think that john tory is the go-to guy for right-leaning voters or that he'd seriously consider jumping into this shit show? aside from sliding into ernie eves' seat once he was elected leader of the tories, he hasn't ever succeeded in being elected! lost against miller...

yikes! what a dog!

at this point, with so much federal and provincial money on the table, voting for subway is a sensible thing to do.

honestly, i just wish the wynne would demerge the cities and leave toronto proper to govern itself. bah. anyway, i think it's pretty clear at this point that if ford gets popped, it'll likely be for 'perverting the course of justice' or 'obstruction of justice' or some such thing, related to...

well, how much can the city slow down the project to get menkes to pay up?

i'd be very skeptical that rob ford and his team could learn anything practical about austin's music scene, like, virtually everything useful to be learned probably could have been gleaned by asking some of toronto's local music organizations, performers and entrepreneurs what some of the...