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Whether it exists or not is one thing, but it at least refers to a specific issue ("wasteful spending and efficiencies"). "One Toronto" doesn't refer to anything. Can you glean any sort-of policy, political position or focus on an issue from the slogan "One Toronto"? She's taking a cue from...

Rossi's giant tunnel only came into play later on in the campaign though, when he was trailing badly in the polls. I actually supported him in the infancy of that mayoral campaign (to my credit, he was the only semi-right-wing candidate and by the end of the campaign, I would have voted for...

If this is true, then I can't wait. The strength of Ford is that he cut straight through the bullshit, political jargon and "politics". He had a very simple message - "Respect for Taxpayers" - and he had several key initiatives that he ran on (Vehicle Registration Tax, Land Transfer Tax...

Penn & Teller go well beyond being "over the top". Many of the arguments they put forth on their show are disingenuous, use flawed logic or excessive rhetoric, and are contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. One big tactic they use on that show is choosing complete idiots and lunatics to...

I'm not making any sort of connection here. Not to mention that the anti-vax crowd are typically liberals, and not the crowd associated with Ford Nation. Also, Penn & Teller spew out more bullshit than they ever out. Their show is one of the most anti-intellectual, biased, rhetoric-filled...

As mentioned before, it would take someone much more dumb than Layton to not know there was a good chance he was exploiting someone or that a seedy Chinatown "shiatsu" massage parlor is not suspicious. That is just willful ignorance. I'm not saying that the former is OK, only that there is a...

I'm not saying its OK to drink coffee that exploits people, just that there's a clear difference between drinking coffee and using a coerced sex worker. You really have to obfuscate, rationalize, equivocate and stretch reason to draw a distinction between the two. Literally every consumer...

First of all, police did not concede that they didn't have enough evidence to charge Layton. The article makes it clear that they chose not to pursue charges against him. I truly do not understand the hypocrisy in ridiculing Ford supporters for ignoring or denying the crack allegations while...

This is a very good post, and surmises some of what I was trying to say much better than I did. I personally do not care about the Layton controversy one iota. Bringing it up was in response to a claim that right-wingers are more lenient on their approved politician's scandals than...

Tewder, Marko and mrtinfoilsocket have explained my position better than I probably can (both the problematic human trafficking aspect of the sex trade and the hypocrisy in how some people have dealt with Layton's controversy), but I'll respond anyway. Several people have accused me of...

In what way is going to a rub-and-tug worse than smoking crack? I'm surprised anyone would disagree with me on this. A lot of the women at illicit massage parlors, particularly Asian women (as there likely would have been in the Shiatsu massage parlor in Chinatown Layton was found in), are...

I completely disagree. First of all, Rob Ford is an anomaly - most right-wingers, such as the CPC, have plenty of scandals that stick to them and destroy their careers. It might just be the nature of these scandals (mostly spending and corruption scandals) that bothers voters, but Ford is pretty...

I don't think Metro Man is full of shit, but he has been wrong about a lot of stuff. I don't doubt that he has insider sources and connections, but, in the brief time I've been here, he has made several false predictions, including that - during the break in the crack scandal - that Ford would...

First of all, several of those links all refer to a single study. I'm not sure if you're attempting to mislead people or if you're exhibiting "low-effort thought", but I'm calling you out on it. I always find it funny when supposed "intelligent" people post studies proclaiming their...

OK, yeah, I admit it. You got me. I'm a paid operative of Mayor Ford. I'm posting here because, as has been mentioned, my posts on Urban Toronto are of utmost importance in swaying public opinion in Toronto and are delaying the release of the crack video somehow. I'm not sure how this works...

Didn't they say they either had the video or were in the process of obtaining it a while back? Or am I thinking of some other source?

OK, fair enough, I'll take your word on this.

Thanks. Agreed, they do exist. Kouvlais with the John Tory show and David Price are proof, but I just think its a bit much to think I'm one.

Fair enough. It would be interesting to see the breakdown of the gross operating budget or a detailed report on why it stagnated, as its hard to make a claim for it one way or the other without knowing the specific reasons. I've been conjecturing, but since it seems like there are a lot of...

Like I said before, I think its really ironic to lambast Ford supporters as stupid or delusional while at the same time accusing anyone who supports him of being a covert paid operative. He must have a lot of paid operatives in the city. This is a completely delusional, paranoid accusation IMO...