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the lemur said:
Didn't he float the idea of halving the number of councillors and wards before being elected to his first term, only to never mention it again? I don't recall him saying anything at all about how the new wards would be defined, how much it would cost to reorganize everything, hold new elections, etc.
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It would involve re-districting. And proper re districting would mean population evaluations, and population evaluations mean that the suburbs lose power. Fewer politicians likely to horse-trade with him means shooting himself in the foot.
 
evvabeing said:
View attachment 53672 http://www.decolabels.com/products.htm
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Maybe it's not part of their everyday production, but they're clearly able to produce something like this:

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https://nowtoronto.com/news/think-f...hose-ford-produced-flag-day-signs-being-hung/

... with their trademark flair for graphic design.
 
zang said:
It would involve re-districting. And proper re districting would mean population evaluations, and population evaluations mean that the suburbs lose power. Fewer politicians likely to horse-trade with him means shooting himself in the foot.
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It wasn't that fancy. Wards used to be defined by splitting the federal ridings in half. Ford's plan was to go to a 1:1 mapping.
 
IIRC Deco is one of the city's largest printers of election signs. Can't find the article but they boasted that they even do the printing for non-Ford supporters. Doolittle wrote about how they got into politics via sign printing in Crazy Town.
 
evvabeing said:
Crime Scene Coverage Suffers as Police Scanners Go Dark
http://canadalandshow.com/article/crime-scene-coverage-suffers-police-scanners-go-dark
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Hence, for Muzik shooting we don't have the names of the 3 injured "victims", or how many shooters there were, but po-lice tell us "We need the public to come forward with any info. photos or videos they may have".

Meanwhile Starkovski gets a quick whitewash (and in the back of my mind Aretha's asking the question: Who's Zoomin' Who?).
 
I got bored yesterday and started poking around the TED Talks videos and found a 2004 presentation by Steven Levitt, "The Freakonomics of Crack Dealing" talking about the career prospects of marginalized youth. This would be great for the Grade 7 curriculum for social studies, math, or phys ed.
 
Jimmi T said:
Weren't a bunch of cops found to be taking bribes from club owners fairly recently? One was related to the police union boss I believe.
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William McCormack Jr., the son of a former Toronto Police chief, and Rick McIntosh, a former president of the Toronto Police Association, walked out of Superior Court free men on Tuesday after a prosecutor admitted there was no reasonable prospect of conviction.
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The men were charged in May of 2004 with breach of trust and obstructing justice offences for allegedly taking bribes from nightclub owners in Toronto's entertainment district in exchange for either help obtaining liquor licences or getting police protection.
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http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2010/08/03/14912916.html

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John Schertzer, Steven Correia, Ned Maodus, Joseph Miched and Raymond Pollard faced multiple charges based on allegations they conducted searches without warrants, falsified notes to hide those alleged facts and allegedly didn’t account for all of the money seized in drug investigations. They also faced extortion and assault allegations.

The case faced numerous delays.

Charges were laid in 2004, but stayed in 2008, when it appeared a trial wouldn’t be completed in a timely manner. Ontario’s Court of Appeal then ordered a new trial, saying the delays in the case were not unreasonable.

That decision was taken up to the Supreme Court of Canada, which declined to hear an appeal of the ruling, paving the way for the trial to go ahead.

The five officers were all eventually convicted in 2012 of attempting to obstruct justice. Three of them – Pollard, Maodus and Correia – were also convicted of perjury.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-officers-in-corruption-case/article24036297/

Joyce Schertzer, his third and current wife and a promising detective on the Toronto police homicide squad, would stand by him through the many years of scrutiny and accusation. When her schedule allowed, she would be in court by his side.
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Having retired in 2007, Schertzer spends his time overseeing a trendy restaurant he owns on Queen St. W. He lives in Etobicoke.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/06/29/saga_of_a_toronto_police_drug_squad.html
 
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