I have a strong suspicion that someone's gonna be busy holding constituency meetings with a Russian Prince or two this week. And it'll have very little to do with potholes or Crimea.

Agreed. The obvious thrust of the Fords' anti-Blair offensive is to preemptively spoil the case against them by making it appear political and/or personal. Especially in light of that, it becomes all the more critical that the entire case is handled as neutrally as possible. I can't believe that...

Put me down for May 1. Metro Man suggested late April, and so much Ford stuff seems to happen on Thursdays. If we pass that without resolution, my back-up will be Sept 4, for the entirely unscientific reason that it would be a beautiful birthday present and a month and half before the...

I agree with this, but it's still worth bringing up. The sort of evasions and semantic exercises Slob and Thug specialise in might technically get them off the short-term hook of any specific question, but when they're so consistent and slippery over and over again, the pattern is unavoidable...

Still ten months until the election and already this tense-- this either has to blow up for good real soon or I think my head will. If he's not dead, charged or somehow out of the race by June, this summer will be one to remember. And all this division, venom and conspiracy in the service of an...

Excuse spam, but this is something I think this is something very relevant that people here might enjoy...I certainly enjoyed writing the ordering instructions! SFH is a newer Toronto band fronted by Warren Kinsella, and we're just releasing our topical Rob Ford record. How timely, huh? SFH -...

Entirely agree. The targeting of Blair is all too specific, vehement and consistent to be merely spontaneous, even for a strategist as ham-fisted and inelegant as Thug Ford. The question this begs is-- how do they know? Certainly this is in the air, and they obviously know of their own...

It's incredible to me that the most obvious result of/response to the deluge of scandal Ford has brought upon himself, his family, his office and his city isn't even on the table when we weigh these options: just resigning out of some residual sense of humility. I look forward to learning...

Seconded. If I have to concede one thing to Slob & Thug, it's that they've contributed a truly astonishing number of instant classic one-liners to Toronto's collective comedic arsenal. Taking the long view, it's reassuring to think that these clowns will live on chiefly as literal punchlines for...

As loathesome as they were, I'm going to go with YES, precisely because of how loathesome they were. I have no problem judging Ford by the sort of tacky, tasteless, moronic douchebags that he seems to feel a natural kinship with. His deliberate seeking out of these environments, and the hearty...

Remarkable to come out so strongly against Pride when you're utterly bereft of Shame.

I'm a left-leaning guy with a very short crewcut sitting here in Docs and a Fred Perry with a 1982 Cock Sparrer LP playing in the background, so yes, I would tend to agree!

Some hard-hitting investigative journalism here: http://news.ca.msn.com/canada/video/?videoid=cbcc2014-0302-2109-0013-243469571000 Eye-rolling aside, this really does illustrate the power and resonance of Ford's contrived narrative, even 2000 miles away. I'd also prefer to believe that...

Two things about that Facebook profile: 1) pretty sure it belongs to the guy doing the tattooing, not the subject in the foreground 2) they're generic 21st century hip hop/thug types, very definitely not skinheads or race weirdos. The tacky fitted cap and 420 tattoos are the opposite of...

I bought it at Ben McNally (Bay & Richmond). I had just left my bank this morning and was about to head up to the Eaton Centre when I remembered that there was an indie shop nearby. Excuse the soapbox, but I really do think it's healthy to support indie book and record shops when possible...

I walked into a bookstore today and asked if they had it. The owner had a box of them behind the counter and, $30 later, my afternoon is booked (ahem). I won't name the store in case they were ahead, but I had indeed asked because I believed today was the scheduled release date.

I'd normally agree that the mayor has a pretty minimal role to play in enacting policies with a significant impact on employment numbers; that kind of power rests with higher levels of government. When a mayor displays the sort of behaviour Ford revels in, however, that lack of seriousness and...

Hopefully I can be excused a little on-topic sorta-kinda-spam here, but I'm about to release a Ford-related record by Warren Kinsella's band, SFH, and I think it'll prove a much more interesting souvenir of this benighted period in Toronto history than any bobblehead. The a-side is "Mayor On...

Completely agree. If he wants to make his weight a public barometer for his own lack of discipline or control-- over habits that clearly have a negative impact on his ability to function as mayor, every bit as a predilection for doughnuts and family-size buckets of KFC-- he can go right ahead...

This, from the National Post, is beautiful. So refreshing to hear these things finally being expressed as clearly as the times demand. 'Councillor Joe Mihevc thinks the opposite. He says Ms. Wynne is both within her rights and “smart†for cutting the mayor out. “I don’t want Mayor Ford...