Maybe he doesn't like all the socialist medicine here. It's icky. Ew!

Sad, but probably too true to be good. And worse, you can see Doug only using the occasion to campaign for himself (for whatever). He'll also likely use Animatronic's bingo sheet to write the speech. Vote for Doug to carry on Rob's great work, yadda yadda, Etobicoke Camel Lot, taxpayers, etc etc

Still pretty funny, though, isn't it? Clowns get laffs. :-D

I'm still laughing at the headline "Fords lend political muscle to Harper ". Does anybody know *anyone* who was impressed by Harper once he announced his Ford cuddle-up?

Works for me. :) And why wouldn't Harpo want to resign by note? He doesn't have to talk to people that way. He didn't want to talk to voters on the campaign either!

Any possibility that Harper already knew from poll numbers that he was going to tank, so associating with the Fords wasn't to get support (FN wasn't going to vote Lib or ndp anyhow), but to send a big Eff You to Toronto, Liberals and Red Tories alike? To me, that makes more sense than the...

I know Ibiza ain't Tunisia, but maybe the recent terrorist vibe is a factor. Barbados doesn't seem to be Taliban territory. They don't even have real pirates that go Arrrrr! (Ask Rink Rat about the Bajan "pirate" ships. :) Speaking of which, a good booze cruise would be Robbie 's kind of thing...

Rob still gets clicks and eyeballs because there's still enough of a train wreck aroma to justify the curiosity. To quote Courtney Love, "they want to see if you will stand up, or will you just fall down." But the trope that seems to be taking over is that Robbie is the "conscience" of city...

Yea! Go Sports! Go Sports Yeah! Robbie wanted us all to remember him as the football coach who became mayor. But do football coaches generally make good mayors? E.g. T. Craig Nelson? Just a thought.

If that's true (and I'm not suggesting it's not), then a big honking Ferris wheel is what Toronto needs to help finance its transit upgrades. Call it respect for taxpayers, if you must. Wasn't there a big wheel at Sunnyside many years ago?

Caitlyn Ford? Nope, and despite an almost-familial resemblance, it's not Rob or Kathy either. It's Jayne County, punk rock sensation of Jayne/Wayne County and The Electric Chairs, whose hits include "Toilet Love", "If You Don't Wanna F**k Me Baby, F**K Off", and "Man Enough To Be A Woman"...

Anyone else getting annoyed by the term "Leaf Nation"? I always knew that the FoFam Zone at ACC was a bad thing.

Maybe the only obstacle to a Vaughan council seat is the Fords aren't Italian (yet)? Mayor Dougi Fordi. Soundsa kinda cute. By the time they're done, Doug Sr will have invented both pizza and concrete.

"That would be The Pentaverate: The Queen, The Pope, the Rothschilds, the Gettys, and Colonel Sanders, before he went tits up."

OMG for someone who is supposed to be "good at sales" this is #1 phô pah like u can't bee-leave. All Deco business cards are an advertisement for the company's work. This card says it all: The words are "Absolute crap." Yes that is a crop mark on the left. The cut on the right is miles off...

I'm asking if an editor even gets a reason for a request to "temporarily" hold a story, not necessarily spike it completely. An example might be that someone close to management may have made it known that they don't appreciate further press about a given topic, because it "would not be...

Paging all editors: How do you respond to a "suggestion from upstairs" to reassign a reporter (e.g. our UT Cooper) off a particular story? Does it happen often? In other words, it doesn't take much to silence a story. Just reassign the reporter to something else. To the writer, sometimes...

Kool-Aid, Mr Tory? I notice your glass is empty. More, Mr Mamms? Good shiz, wasn't it?

After you raised this, I began to wonder if the "softening" was more a product of sheer surprise than anything. Remember, Mikey was silent for a long time, and the two issues of Toronto transport and gay acceptance don't mean he's left wing by any stretch. In fact, both these issues are...

Ding! Ding! Ding! I think you won today's Interwebs. Oarsome!