"In my opinion..." He's entitled to his opinion, folks! HAHAHAHAHAHAAH.

Sadly, Ivor Tossell nails it here: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/toronto-election-the-vote-without-a-moral-core/ A bleak but wise wrap-up of this election period. Almost apathy-inducing, but I don't think that's what he intended. The saddest part is that the candidates all think they need...

In four days no one will ever again give two shits what Doug Ford has to say. Seriously. Even his biggest supporters will realize that it's over and he's a powerless paper tiger and quietly slink away, ignoring him. That is, if he sticks around for even a week after losing before hightailing it...

If he's not elected, his motivation for showing up at meetings, etc., will dwindle and die. Remember why he does this: he's addicted to attention from the media and the public---for lack of a better word, the feeling of being a big shot. If he's no longer a big shot except as a "talking head"...

Oh, it's definitely too late for a media bomb. The optics would be terrible so close to election day. But if a candidate comes out with it and the media merely report, all bets are off. I agree 100% about Tory, he's well aware of his position and knows there's little to be gained from dropping...

I don't know if that would rock the boat hard enough at this point. But it does almost seem strange to me that the campaign could just draw to a close in the state it's in now.

I wondered a week ago and I'm still wondering now: is anybody going to drop an H-bomb into this campaign? Have any of the candidates been hanging onto a secret weapon? I could see Tory using one to clinch it... Chow to upend the board... Doug... well, whatever Doug had would be bullshit anyway...

Obviously I don't want Doug to get in but honestly I have never viewed that as much of a possibility. So the far, far sweeter defeat to watch will be Rob in Ward 2---that's the one I'm crossing my fingers for. I hope we get to watch them squirm and scramble to throw together the ground game they...

So I guess not only Rob but Doug has entered the "no longer worried about looking pathetic" zone.

I suppose that might have been the idea (if he tipped off the press---he'd never admit how much he needs them), and it may have thrilled a few voters there, but I imagine it looked pretty sad and desperate to a lot more voters elsewhere in the city. A man with cancer just hanging out alone in a...

The thing that always makes me shake my head about the Fords is how small-time, low-rent, sloppy and lazy they are. Ford clearly doesn't give a shit about election rules or breaking the law yet this is the best he can think to do? Show up at ONE polling station and talk to voters in the lobby...

Uh, no, you do.

Hey, for all those weighing in on the "who would be worse (or better, if you like): Ford or Tory" debate: I want to shift the emphasis of my point a little, because this is what it's really about for me: I don't want to see the Scarborough subway or SmartTrack happen, ever. They are both...

Absolutely not cool. You gotta be kidding me, as Thing 1 and Thing 2 would say. It would be a nightmare. But the dude's right. The real opposition to the Fords has been spotty at best, IMO, because too many people have been OK with waiting out the clock. If Doug gets elected, those people...

A friend posted this to FB, well said and worth sharing*, I think: "I'm only going to say this once. I voted for Olivia Chow because she has a good record in politics and is the *only* major candidate with any vision for this city. And if my vote results in Doug Ford getting in, so be it...

"The word you won't ever hear me say is 'pussy,' " said Doug Ford in an interview Wednesday. "I mean, pussy---that's just terrible. Pussy is a disgusting word and only a degenerate would even utter it out loud."

It's the 14th, and I'm itching for an October surprise. Hope a nice big bombshell arrives soon, ideally involving the words "mid-level hash dealer."

But I've heard Doug described as a "mid-level dealer", i.e., someone who took significant weight from bigger people bringing hash into Canada, and in turn supplied a number of small-time dealers. If this is accurate, it's not "no big deal", but I'd be happy to hear anyone's corrections.

I'm pretty sure it's safe to assume the garbage bag full of weed going missing was not just the result of criminal cunning.

This is why I think it's so incredibly crazy that, if Doug was anywhere near as prolific as it sounds like he was in the 80s, no one thus far has been able to solidify the teenage drug mogul story. The Globe and Mail did their story, which was well reported; Doug did his typical "all lies and...