L23
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Yes, but unlike elsewhere, their job is to make sure that any articles in the Sun haven't been tainted by any facts.
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Yes, but unlike elsewhere, their job is to make sure that any articles in the Sun haven't been tainted by any facts.
sweetlou
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This is the same Doug Ford who once famously accused the entire public gallery of being "paid protestors" and not "real taxpayers"? Wow, can't wait to find myself a seat next to Dougie. Also signs & banners are specifically prohibited in the gallery.
Roy's Square
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I wonder if Doug noticed that, although Chicago and Toronto have close to the same number of people, Chicago's debt is roughly ten times that of Toronto and it has regularly run budget deficits in the hundreds of millions of dollars, while Toronto's is effectively zero, by law.
I wonder if Doug noticed that all the city building he crows about in Chicago actually costs money…so, of course, do apps and pothole filling robots!
AlvinofDiaspar
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Perhaps the only thing he has learned from Chicago is the inbredness of their municipal politics - i.e. Daley. I can see why he is smitten by the quasi-hereditary mayoralty though, given his designs.
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the lemur
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He'll be just like the people at the budget deputations that he and Rob dismissed as unemployed troublemakers, the only kind of people who could be in the gallery during the day.
Does Doug actually do any kind of work now?
AlvinofDiaspar
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Cooper
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I thought that was more or less the plan all along.
JWBF
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Never thought of that.
Indeed.
That's "TheRebel" of which he is a "Commander".
It's their version of the "The Blaze", so to them it's a step up from being Fox News North.
Videodrome
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Good response.
Huge Seagull
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I sit corrected. So Daddy was even more of a loser than I thought. Quite the political legacy.
Yaitsme
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And that's exactly why Da boys are like they are. Sr. probably ran around claiming he was cheated because really, he's the greatest there is. And he'd punch out anyone who claimed the opposite. They really are the perfect psychological dysfunction case. LOL
pud99
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pud99
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The only one that turned out well is their Muslim adopted brother. (As measured by the fact that one never hears anything from or about him.)
TJ O'Pootertoot
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The greatest joke of all this dynasty talk has been what a useless, short-term backbencher Doug Sr. was. I looked him up in the Hansard once and he spoke at Queen's Park perhaps a dozen times, mostly just saying boilerplate, "Our government is awesome," stuff.
For whatever it's worth, Rob's political accomplishments are far more substantial; as local councillor for 10 years he surely did more for the local community than Doug Sr. did as MPP, as weird as that may seem. So the idea that this tradition of great public service started with dad has always been the Big Lie upon which Ford Nation is built. The reality is that he and Diane raised some very damaged people, and it's kind of sad that this lie and their public personas have laid it all out for all the world to see.
drk
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From the first link:
"While it is easy to see how fiscal conservatives support his mantras of stopping the gravy train and respect for taxpayers, it is difficult for those unfamiliar with Toronto politics to understand why he received continued support after admitting smoking crack in one of his drunken stupors and after having been videotaped making derogatory comments about gays, Jews and blacks. But they did."
It's not so difficult. As a wise man once said, half the people your know are below average. And a significant proportion of people don't care to have their lives complicated by having to justify or examine their beliefs. Just give them someone that validates them.
At $14.95 for a whopping 156 pages (large font? pictures?) I expect it's aimed directly at the target market.
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