Ronald Reagan and lots of US political figures played off these same kinds of soundbites for many years before Twitter could ever be imagined, so I'm not sure if a real connection can be made there.

I don't think anyone's THAT politically smart, short of Karl Rove (and Ford can't afford him). Any politician should learn from Hudak's example and not hitch their wagon too close to Ford's.

Wow that is baffling. Is there not one single person in the food industry here? No wonder this system is so broken.

There is a stop sign on the doors of the streetcar. Lesson 1 in driving school is literally do not pass a stop sign without stopping.

I apologize if I thought this was a valid discussion here on this discussion board. I am simply trying to wrap my head around why someone would actively campaign for less dining choices here in Toronto, when so many other cities have a vast wealth of options, from trucks, carts and traditional...

we don't want any of this damn sriracha clogging up our arteries!

Food truck owners don't pay taxes? News to me.

So these trucks can't even stay open and maintain their clientele throughout the year, basically forcing them into getting some kind of secondary income for the winter months (I don't know your Cuban vendor's situation), and you don't see this as a mitigating factor of not paying some of the...

You are still not addressing the question. Are other existing venues of prepared food distribution (vending machines, hot dog carts, chip trucks, pop-up restaurants, etc) 'unlevel/unfair' to restaurants? And to add, what is so special about Toronto's restaurant scene that they can't compete...

The point of doug's post, if I am correct, is asking you if any of those things (like food trucks, apparently) constitute an unfair competitive advantage over restaurants, not your personal taste for them. We get it, you dig restaurants (no one is on the other side of this opinion, restaurants...

Or Groupons, or all-you-can-eat specials, or any of the thousands of other 'unfair' advantages one restaurant has over any other. It's frankly amazing that hundreds of cities around the world have restaurants and food trucks that coexist without cannibalizing each others business. This...

I firmly believe that the new right-wing M.O is to push their small/no-government agenda forward by getting into power and demonstrating how badly government can be run. This is accomplished in equally abysmal, but opposite ways by both Ford and Harper. Ford shows how government is ineffective...

She's their token lesbian that can trumpet the same usual garbage without attracting cries of homophobia. It's always fun to see the comment section of her articles on homosexuality cave in on themselves.

It will certainly be interesting to see if Ford skips the events tied to World Pride here in 2014, when he will be even more in campaign mode than he is now.

You are one of those people that doesn't realize that the Federal party and the Provincial party are completely different, huh? The Liberals are doing fine in Ontario. You have a Liberal premier. On the other hand, there are discarded spatulas with more political capital than Tim Hudak.

Surely you've heard 'Cakers' to refer to white folks? It has the same origin - Mangiacake (not 'munchy cake', lol). It originates from Italians and other Europeans that came here and found North American bread to be more cake-like and less crusty, so they call white folks cake-eaters (Mangia...

The 1930's?

Seriously, what did he do specifically about Occupy?

Has anyone noticed the streetcar running a little slower than usual? Maybe it's just me, but the actual speed of the car seems to have decreased.

be sure to charge your Blackberries first!