It looks like you can get it today actually: Edit: Just saw your correction above.

I'm in my mid 30's and live downtown. The only Ford supporter I know in real life is an old high school acquaintance - he's white, under employed, lives with his parents and has a burning anger at the world for ruining his life - specifically liberals, Liberals, unions, teachers, immigrants, the...

Right exactly. I knew about the incident and the judge's comments. But I had never seen anywhere that the perpetrators were possibly people Ford coached.

From today's Warmington column: http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/29/mayor-ford-i-had-nothing-to-do-with-anthony-smiths-murder If true that's news to me. I knew about the incident of course but not that there was potentially any actual link to Ford. Had I missed that previously or is it new...

Plus he didn't drive himself there... but won't answer repeated questions about who did drive him.

In fairness it's not really about journalism training. It's a phrase used as the quintessential example of the "loaded question" and the context is understood by nearly anybody with formalized debate experience/training. (I understand why it got your back up though - a month or two ago and I...

Oh they understand it... they just don't care because it's "Stickin' it to the downtown elites".

Does that somehow make Ford's use of taxpayer resources for personal gain somehow ok? Just curious.

Agree completely. Here's what's been bothering me lately though. I see taxation as a sort of a social contract - I've been relatively professionally successful and thus pay a lot of taxes. I'm more than fine with that and recognize the "fair trade" that you mentioned - I hope those taxes go...

I wasn't completely sure but I thought the "2.5 people per customer" estimate was a hydro provided number so I did some digging and found the below: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ice-storm-aftermath-30-000-customers-still-without-power-1.2477813

That's a great post and thank-you. I think despite the debate being waged here the last few days most of us can agree with the idea that the response was less than ideal. You did a good job summarizing that. I also wanted to acknowledge though that some people (dt_toronto_geek for example) made...

I could be wrong of course but the way I read it is that a declaration of disaster for ODRAP is separate and not dependent on an SOE. (Again - that's just my take on it) I suspect we'll hear a lot more about it over the next few days.

I'm not sure exactly what your problem with me is. You make some good points (that I even agree with) but you've interjected yourself into an argument between myself and TheKingEast. He keeps repeatedly claiming that I say "More resources wouldn't have helped" as if I'm some kind of moron. I...

Maybe if he says "I apologize" three times.

You convinced me! I'm totally voting for him next election! :)

I like how he only mentions the weight problem . No mention of crack addiction or hanging out with violent gang members.

Only nobody actually said that ever. But congrats on the poor reading comprehension. Instead of snarky comments you probably should be able to produce a quote where someone here (for example me) claims that "more manpower wouldn't have helped". As opposed to "I don't think an SOE would have...

Just a question though - what's to stop all that from happening WITHOUT an SOE? I guess that's been my point from the beginning. A declaration of SOE doesn't guarantee good decision making and a non-declaration doesn't guarantee bad decision making. We've spent all this time going around in...

Towey seems to imply this was already happening even without an SOE:

My understanding is that a declaration of an SOE exists almost entirely as a mechanism to consolidate council's power in the hands of one person - usually the mayor but the deputy mayor in our case. It allows the "Mayor" to pass laws and enact legislation without going through the normal...