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anne said:
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 tested for lead poisoning in the 1970's perhaps we were neighbours.

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Nope you don't have to be educated to be brilliant. I've known/worked with many who didn't have even a high school diploma but were innately very smart and astute and knowledgeable. I've also known/worked with many with post graduate degrees who had no common sense or creativity whatsoever. Honestly, I'd rather deal with the former than the latter. That said, Ford Nation is neither.

ETA: my area had lots of abattoirs, railway tracks, miscellaneous industry and yeah car part yards. Aside from the reduction in abattoirs, much of the rest remains despite the attempt at gentrification.
 
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Nope you don't have to be educated to be brilliant. I've known/worked with many who didn't have even a high school diploma but were innately very smart and astute and knowledgeable. I've also known/worked with many with post graduate degrees who had no common sense or creativity whatsoever. Honestly, I'd rather deal with the former than the latter. That said, Ford Nation is neither.

ETA: my area had lots of abattoirs, railway tracks, miscellaneous industry and yeah car part yards. Aside from the reduction in abattoirs, much of the rest remains despite the attempt at gentrification.
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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 neighbourhood names which have been created to slap lipstick on a sow. Eastern Ave is now Riverdale South. Just west of there... Leslieville. All dumps when I was a kid. Main/Gerrard is now called "Beaches North" but we used to call it CNR South.
 
anne said:
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 neighbourhood names which have been created to slap lipstick on a sow. Eastern Ave is now Riverdale South. Just west of there... Leslieville. All dumps when I was a kid. Main/Gerrard is now called "Beaches North" but we used to call it CNR South.
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Not Annette but north which is way worse. We were actually just north of the stock yards and when the weather conditions were just right the stench was unbearable. The stock yards are mostly gone now but a lot of the industrial crap remains. They slapped up a bunch of nice looking town houses there plus a mall and a bunch of big box strips. Too bad the land is still contaminated and in the summer, the stench can still be found, although not as profoundly as before. Developers literally put lipstick on the sow indeed.

My dream as a kid was to move to Etobicoke to the Edenbridge area. I had a few friends there and thought it was the cat's meow lol. I am not quite a Edenbridge thank goodness but close enough to Ford Nation to know you have to be careful what you wish for lol.
 
Kat's Meow said:
Not Annette but north which is way worse. We were actually just north of the stock yards and when the weather conditions were just right the stench was unbearable. The stock yards are mostly gone now but a lot of the industrial crap remains. They slapped up a bunch of nice looking town houses there plus a mall and a bunch of big box strips. Too bad the land is still contaminated and in the summer, the stench can still be found, although not as profoundly as before. Developers literally put lipstick on the sow indeed.

My dream as a kid was to move to Etobicoke to the Edenbridge area. I had a few friends there and thought it was the cat's meow lol. I am not quite a Edenbridge thank goodness but close enough to Ford Nation to know you have to be careful what you wish for lol.
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That area also used to have the Symes incinerator as well (now long decommissioned). I live south near Annette/Runnymede but first house was Pharmacy and Danforth area - definitely hard working and definitely not stupid people (or at least not any more stupid than anywhere else in the city).
 
kbdid said:
That area also used to have the Symes incinerator as well (now long decommissioned). I live south near Annette/Runnymede but first house was Pharmacy and Danforth area - definitely hard working and definitely not stupid people (or at least not any more stupid than anywhere else in the city).
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Yes, I forgot about the Symes incinerator. If it wasn't the abattoir stench, it was the incinerator ...
 
MYOB, Toronto taxpayers.

reporterdonpeat 12:18pm via Twitter for BlackBerry®
No sign of Mayor Rob Ford at City Hall yet today. No response from his chief of staff to a media inquiry about mayor's ETA.
 
Frank D'A and Bill Watters talking about Fraud Nayshun
http://www.nextsportstar.com/
edit: now they are talking about some sports team sale in Milwaukee.
But they were saying that FN were full of people who weren't smart.
They didn't think RoFo would get re-elected.
Frank D'A supports John Tory.
 
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I am flabberghasted! :eek: Say it isn't so!

Daniel Dale ‏@ddale8 1m
I get emails from many fans of TCHC CEO Gene Jones. Tenants seem to like him. He has some similarities with Ford himself.
 
Ahh to be blissfully unaware because #TOpoli awareness is an excercise in sheer frustration and confoundedness ...

I've read the executive summary and I'm not surprised. I doubt Jones will survive but I doubt it will matter to him as I'm sure he will get a lovely parting gift thanks to his contract and our laws which make it near impossible to fire for cause. Meanwhile he's flouted our employment laws and regulations and established practices in order to shake things up. Then he can go to the US and tell the story that we socialist Canadians fired him for trying to bring things back in order (like he did in Detroit) because we're soft socialists.
 
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Kat's Meow said:
Ahh to be blissfully unaware because #TOpoli awareness is an excercise in sheer frustration and confoundedness ...

I've read the executive summary and I'm not surprised. I doubt Jones will survive but I doubt it will matter to him as I'm sure he will get a lovely parting gift thanks to his contract and our laws which make it near impossible to fire for cause. Meanwhile he's flouted our employment laws and regulations and established practices in order to shake things up. Then he can go to the US and tell the story that we socialist Canadians fired him for trying to bring things back in order (like he did in Detroit) because we're soft socialists.
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Ha, I would love to see him sue because he is fired for cause(s), one of which is firing without cause. Go right ahead, it will be worth it.

AoD
 
AlvinofDiaspar said:
Ha, I would love to see him sue because he is fired for cause(s), one of which is firing without cause. Go right ahead, it will be worth it.

AoD
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Yeah, if he could bring down RoFo down with him, it would be great!
Why was an American hired anyway? I am sure there would have been more than enough qualified candidates from Toronto.
I met him once, and he seemed like a career politician type to me: smiling and shaking everyone's hand, but not real.
 
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