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Looks like knives don't show any mercy either. I'm waiting for Miller to call for a ban on hand knives. After all, we should be able to get by with forks, spoons and chop sticks. And this father sure sounds like a great role model. Maybe they'll do some quality father son bonding in a cell...

From today's Star: City in desperate need of pizzazz Hotel staff offers ideas to attract new visitors and reverse Toronto's decline in tourism Aug 05, 2007 04:30 AM Bertil de Kloet As workers in the Toronto hospitality industry, our hotel staff and I are very worried. Tourism has declined...

In the past few weeks, McGuinty, Tory and the Toronto Board of Trade have all suggested the city perform an audit to see if there are inefficiencies. Miller has responded by claiming several audits have been performed and they all found that the city cannot be run any more efficiently. Miller...

worst...building...ever!

Let's see. Regardless of what the real number is, it is clear that Toronto's ethnic mosaic is not reflected in the city's elected representatives. Toronto's councilors, MPPs and MPs are overwhelmingly white in a city where whites are becoming the minority (assuming they aren't already). In South...

There is no way those stats are accurate. First of all, at least 350,000 people of colour have settled in Toronto since this census, the other 350,000 having settled in the rest of the GTA. There has also been some white flight from Toronto to other communities in Ontario and elsewhere. Not to...

But that's just it, Toronto's representatives are not doing a good job. For example, why aren't Toronto's MPs and MPPs doing anything to push for fixing the fiscal imbalance with senior levels of government?

Could this possibly explain why people in the GTA accept the fact that they pay much higher taxes than people in the rest of Canada, and receive much less in return from the government in terms of health care, education, EI benefits, etc? Could it be that the average GTAer is so grateful just to...

I'd be willing to bet that a) those stats are out of date, because the GTA receives more than 100,000 new immigrants, almost all of them non white, every year, and those stats are almost 7 years old b) many of the immigrants do not bother participating in the statscan census, and therefore...

Why is it that virtually all elected representatives in Toronto at the municipal, provincial and federal levels are white? Fewer than 40% of the people in Toronto are white (and the percentage declines every year), yet they seem to hold almost all of the political power in the city. Wouldn't it...

Looks like Toronto is not the only city paying the price for CUPE's outrageous demands, but in our case, unlike Vancouver, we have a mayor who is on the union's side, pitted against Toronto's beleaguered taxpaying citizens. Guess who's running your city CUPE's Power Handcuffs Mayors Terence...

http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/240323 Does the city need new taxes? The recent and highly charged debate that resulted in the deferral of the proposed new fees has raised a number of interesting issues. CON: Mayor David Miller has failed to provide the leadership to set priorities...

National Post, Published Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:06 PM by Barry Hertz Meet the salaries of the workers who move Toronto What do you call a municipal employee who makes almost $27 an hour to collect tokens and cash in a booth? A TTC worker, apparently. Several city councillors, in a bid...

I'm not saying that litter pickers are rich, but I am saying that they're making more than twice what they would be if they did similar work in the non-unionized private sector. And just imagine how high the cost of living would be if the minimum wage suddenly jumped to $21/hour plus 23%...

How about high taxes with poor services = BAD When taxes go up faster than inflation and what the city provides is not expanded or improved, or even properly maintained, there is only one conclusion that one can make. Those higher taxes are all going to higher municipal employee wages. Is...

A ban on handguns would be about as effective as the war on drugs. Where there is demand, there will always be supply. I do agree that gun smugglers should do hard time too though.

I hate the way McGuinty acts like he's doing the city a huge favour by granting it the right to tax its citizens more. Since when are tax increases a good thing? I guess they are in McGuinty's bizzarro world. If higher taxes are a gift, then why doesn't he double Ontario income tax? People would...

Does this mean we should ban cars to prevent drunk driving? Same logic.

I used the UK as an example because ever since their ban on guns, gun crime has increased. Mayor Miller is implying that a handgun ban will be an effective solution. I am pointing out that the evidence suggests otherwise. I haven't heard Miller putting pressure on the Liberal appointed judges to...

I don't know the answer to that question. Do you?