You might want to do a google search on barber before declaring him "our guy". ;)

If I'm not mistaken, Mississauga Watch is my old neighbour Don Barber. We lived on the same street and went to the same school. He has been hounding Hazel McCallion for decades. I don't pay much attention to what goes on in Mississauga as I lived there only for a few months when I was a teenager...

That guy is everywhere isn't he? I'd have crapped bricks if he was that close to me. After all that trash-talking we do here. ;)

You are a west-ender, Annette Street area? :) There were no abbatoirs in my neck of the woods that I can recall; just factories which contaminated the soil for generations to come. It's odd to see expensive condos go up on that contaminated land like all is okay now. Fyi, I love the new-fangled...

Good point. I'm guilty of judging based on what I *heard* about the show rather than a first hand opinion so looky-here, I did exactly the same thing.

Ahhhh, I didn't imply that my neighbours were Honey Boo Boo types. I said they were often brilliant despite a lack of education. The area suffered from a bad reputation probably based around the facts that it was surrounded by stinky factories and unsightly car part yards. If you had to be...

Ahhh... I didn't say they were Honey Boo Boo types. I said they were "uneducated" (a word I despise which is generally tossed around to mean "stupid").

Hyper, I think your initial assessment was completely dead on. Your bullshit meter was buried in the red for good reason. I wondered after reading your words if I knew the person who was the source of those comments. I have property in the Huronia Detachment area and I've heard the baloney...

After watching that video of interviews with Ford supporters at his campaign launch, it's obvious that these people are about as unsophisticated as they get. I come from an area that was once considered the wrong side of the tracks and had a bad reputation of being populated by uneducated...

Let me guess.. Huronia West detachment?

I see others have done their homework. You can't read an article about Ford these days without some commenter calling out a lie, or pointing to a shady connection. In http://www.torontolife.com/informer/toronto-election-2014/2014/04/18/six-things-learned-rob-fords-campaign-launch/ someone a few...

I found this quote interesting: “Because the man is the only mayor in my 70-some-odd years in this city that is actually doing the job properly. Instead of a bunch of socialist morons spending us into the ground, making life hell and unbearable for the working poor, fuelling inflation to no...

Interesting article. A friend of mine describes such behaviour as "shame-based". When someone is so secretive as Renata appears to be, it generally signifies that there is something to hide. Rumours of alcoholism dog this couple. I can only imagine what hell it is to be a child in that home.

I have believed for some time now that the media has an interest in making Ford seem more electable than he is. It sells papers to scare the crap out of people. If everyone thought Ford's career was over, nobody would click the articles or buy papers to read about this freak show.

I howled with laughter when I read this. Now we know what Rob is going to do with 10,000 chocolate eggs. And how is that firetruck legal for a campaign? Doesn't it violate the election sign laws? I knew a candidate who was told he couldn't have one of those portable lighted signs (the kind...

Am I mistaken or is there a little "crazy eyes" goin' on there?

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. What a horrible song.

Well I'm gobsmacked! Ford really DID have a come to Jesus moment. He wasn't lying about that.

I was thinking more of a peaceful resistance like the sit-in. Any effort to disrupt would surely result in ejection.

What did they mean the first thousand people? Is it a rally of some sort? It occurs to me that if "we" could flood his events with people who would never vote for him, it would leave less room for new converts. No reason to heckle - just take up seats so that others cannot.