I've been paying the Vehicle Registration Tax to the city as a donation every year since it was cancelled. You have to submit a form to claim the rebate, and you won't get the rebate until the candidate's audited financial statement has been filed and any related proceedings are complete. It...

And the area south of Queen is mostly "Old Town".

1) The subway will go both ways, to and from Vaughan. 2) Vaughan drivers contribute to congestion in Toronto. Having them get on the subway in Vaughan will relieve congestion in Toronto. 3) Four out of the six new stops are within Toronto and will improve commutes within Toronto (especially to...

I have seen UK and Australian references to this type of thing (especially products that provide a coin-sized item that can be used in lieu of an actual coin -- not to cheat, just so that you always have one handy on your keychain) so it's definitely not just a Toronto thing. However I don't...

I don't recall ever having heard of Soknacki before this election, but what warms my (not particularly conservative) heart now is the fact that he is clearly basing his platform on facts and evidence. That is the strong and principled stand I am looking for, even if in some (not all) cases...

The idea of Rob Ford as a "visionary" reminds me of the beginning of the movie Envy, where Ben Stiller is annoyed with Jack Black for claiming to have "invented" a solution for dog poop when all he did was think it would be cool if you could just make dog poop disappear. Regarding the balance...

Sobey's at Front & Sherbourne closed at the end of June, sadly. But the Rabba is still on the other side of the street, and there's a nice Loblaws at Queen & Portland.

Sounds like the way he runs the city's "customer service" -- instead of making sure that 311 is properly staffed, he wants everyone to call him so he can attend to their problem individually.

It's tagged #tbt which I believe in this case means "throwback Thursday", suggesting that it is a photo from the historical past.

We only think that because Ford's billion volunteers are all in the closet.

I have read that in experiments researchers can get rats to pay more attention to performing a certain task if they get the reward occasionally as opposed to every time they do it. I disagree with this -- the candidate can do whatever idiotic thing he chooses outside of City Hall, but at City...

Is the bank the same job she claims she was fired from because of media interest in her relationship with Rob Ford?

Here's a Toronto Life description of it: http://www.torontolife.com/informer/toronto-politics/2010/10/28/six-highlights-from-the-now-infamous-coach-rob-ford-interview-with-cbcs-as-it-happens/

Interesting. I have been pondering what it would take for Ford to be banned from the premises.

I was surprised by the number of pro-Ford calls they seemed to put on air. There was the nurse, some hot-tempered guy, the guy who wanted Donovan to list things that Ford had done well, the guy who claimed to be a CBC listener but wondered why misbehaviour like Mayor Fontana's in London didn't...

I saw more or less this rumour online back in November 2013, basically that the video was "in the control room" of a 24 hour news station and "ready to roll" as soon as the digital cleanup to make it suitable for broadcast was completed.

Although Ford certainly (and with hindsight, with irony) brought up drug use to discredit Smitherman, I don't think that "drug addict in recovery" played much of a part in Smitherman's defeat. His involvement in and handling of eHealth and ORNGE while at Queen's Park were much more significant.

Thanks. So "restore my security access", then, no "locks" involved.

:p That's why Ford wants it; I am baffled as to why the City would oblige him.

Why on earth would they "restore the locks" rather than give him whatever new keys he ought to have?