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The worst aspect of Rob Ford's football coaching career is the way he talked of his players as either dead or in jail if not for him. Just more of his paternalist racism, the same stuff that could be seen at Friday night's debate. And then he told us that because of him all were going off to...

I wonder some if the Gehry approach translates that well to skyscrapers. I've only seen pictures of 8 Spruce, and know that isn't a fair assessment, but it always looks unsettling to me, like it's diseased. What is playful in Gehry at a smaller scale may become apocalyptic when made massive. But...

And, oh yeah, this debate, like some others, fell maybe five times into an organizational confusion that made this television spectator cringe a little. I suspect that, as hinted above, while other candidates and their organizations made professional effort to know beforehand the groundrules for...

I don't think the debate was that inspiring for those of us who want to see someone call the Mayor on his New Clothes. Any accusation was still hedged or indirect, it's all still gentlemen's rules except to the bully at the top. Soknacki still impresses me, Tory is just another guy accustomed to...

I think I've mentioned this before, but it was a while ago, and other people here keep circling back to their cultural touchstones that probably have far less to do with the topic. Rob Ford's attitude toward black people makes me think of the first couple lines of Don DeLillo's 1972 novel End...

Wish that when they were discussing carding someone could have noted that the rich white man on the left end of the table is a shining example of how different people are treated. A serial drunk driver escorted home by police, an associate of criminals able to lawyer up instead of answering...

Ranting about how people aren't up to the right standards is like going on about kids today. It's meaningless, it's holding reality up against some rosy fantasy. People who support Rob Ford don't think of him as just good enough or as meeting what they think of as some mediocre standard. Just...

In many cases in Canada we are perfectly fine with just good enough. Personally, I could respect a lot more modest aspirations rather than worldwide searches for superstars. However, that debate about where our standards lie doesn't really apply to the case of Rob Ford. He is a long long way...

Don't know why she'd want to do that. She's not that old, her house is probably paid for, and she has a nice MP pension to draw. She went to art school. She should take up sculpture again. Use her name to advocate for children and immigrants - the things she truly cares about - as a volunteer.

Although I'd like to Soknacki stick it out, as long as it's not personally costing him a fortune for a lost cause, there is a downside of us all not falling into support of John Tory if he is to be the eventual winner. The longer the race remains undecided the more Tory will pander for votes...

Chow's initial support wouldn't all be described as progressive. There'd be many centrist liberal voters who knew her name and believed she was the best shot at defeating Ford. Although Tory is Conservative he does have a balanced history of involvement and support of good civic causes, so he...

Soknacki isn't hurting Tory's chances against Ford. According to this poll he's only at 4%. The dangerous vote split is between Tory and Chow. Those two were supposed to be our certain saviours from Ford, guaranteed winners, even before his last crack-smoking, racist, run away to phoney rehab...

You haven't been to a park where you need to tiptoe around all the goose shit? They like big fields, and their populations are growing. There were probably a couple flocks hanging out at Don Bosco.

We've been thinking for four years now that Rob completely screwing up was inevitable, right around the corner. He does screw up continually, but has shown a supernatural ability to skate right past it. Mortal politicians are taken down for one personal moment of weakness or a slip of the...

It's not the $1.4 million* that the neighbours should be grateful for. It's the multiple millions spent trucking rocks down below to protect their own properties and the properties of their neighbours. The least return that taxpayers from elsewhere should expect is that some of the natural...

There's something askew when the government is somehow made responsible to pay $1.2 million for a private property that will one day fall into the drink without expensive public efforts to protect the cliffs from below, but the neighbours still feel entitled to protest any improvements that...

At the boards for Turner Classic Movies, someone dejected because the washroom used for a scene in the Richard Pryor/Gene Wilder movie Silver Streak has been redone: http://forums.tcm.com/index.php?/topic/50190-the-silver-streak-washroom-oh-the-shame/?p=1017726

Seem to remember reading that this is why the crossings are implemented in the symbolic, wishy-washy, semi-useless way that they are. It was determined that too many people wouldn't obey the pedestrian signals and just walk into the street on green anyway, and since we don't really want to...

I thought Scarborough was the inner burbs. But why is the treatment different in Scarborough than in old Toronto? Stand on the overpass at Kennedy Station. See the big buildings in the distance? That means increased density. Can't see any sign of the buidings (three strip malls and a four story...