Rob Ford's Toronto

[TheTigerMaster]

How would they know? I'm a female and don't recall identifying myself as such.

You'd be surprised. Advertising agencies are (theoretically) able to track browsing patterns without the use of tracking cookies.

I'm not exactly sure how they'd know you're female. But they can probably get a general idea of the gender of visitors by tracking which pages visitors came from and go to.

For example, if they see that a visitor from UT was on L'Oreal's website an hour before and then after they visited a women's health site, they'd probably extrapolate that the visitor is female. on the othwe hand, if that visitor started from a college football site, came to UT and was later spotted reading about the Honda S2000, they'd probably extrapolate that he was male.

I know it's hugely sexist, but all they care about is figuring out details about yourself so they can make more money by selling targeted ads.

Edit: I'm not saying that UT or Alexa does this. Its just an explanation of how some advertising and tracking works online.

 

[Nibs]

signed up to say yes, women read this, I have been for a while. We are women. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.

Also today was just incredible. Madness! I can't believe it. Just wow.
Now back to lurking.

 

[Dubster]

When are people gathering at City Hall tomorrow? I can't be there next week so I want to be there tomorrow.

 

[Huge Seagull]

Jeet Heer, a Toronto writer, just shared this on his public Facebook page:

From various journalist friends I'm hearing 1) police have a 2nd Ford tape and 2) its contents are far worse that what we've seen so far. That's kind of hard to believe, so I'm not sure what to make of this chatter.

 

[savetoronto]

When are people gathering at City Hall tomorrow? I can't be there next week so I want to be there tomorrow.

12pm http://savetoronto.ca/

 

[newearthling]

Copy of Mike Del Grande's facebook status:

https://twitter.com/cbcsteve/status/397858355697307648/photo/1

The status is unbelievable because city council has been enabling Ford the whole time.

 

[Adjei]

copy of mike del grande's facebook status:

https://twitter.com/cbcsteve/status/397858355697307648/photo/1

epic!

 

[Dizzy]

Copy of Mike Del Grande's facebook status:

https://twitter.com/cbcsteve/status/397858355697307648/photo/1

Did he delete it? I don't see it on his page

 

[FinchConnection]

The globe's article by Emmet Macfarlane about introducing the power to impeach at the municipal level is quite good.

All of this could have been over long ago if the city had this power.

 

[Dubster]

I think the OPP has to be involved. I also PRAY that the media will eventually pick up on the Mohamed/Ford communication, which to me is far more devastating than the video.

 

[PinkLucy]

Did he delete it? I don't see it on his page

I think you have to be his friend to see it. But hey, there's a screencap

 

[denfromoakvillemilton]

how did you know?
is my web cam on??

Wild guess

are we id'd as female? Cause I am and can't recall identifying myself as such either....signed well before this latest brouhaha, though

welcome (belated!)

 

[denfromoakvillemilton]

True. Even alexa.com says that females are underrepresented in Urban Toronto.

Edward Skira, you should register this website on alexa.com, so that we can track the website's progress. The rank for urbantoronto.ca keeps rising extremely quickly.

Agreed. It would balance out things. I just hate see threads be empty for 3 days or at the top of the forum. That's not good.

signed up to say yes, women read this, I have been for a while. We are women. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.

Also today was just incredible. Madness! I can't believe it. Just wow.
Now back to lurking.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in Rob's house. I bet his big brother was completely freaking out over Rob ruining their plan today

 

[Adjei]

So what happens now?