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I appreciate that this thread was meant as a way of having some serious discussion of a serious issue. I'm somehow not surprised that we are now arguing about "jokes". Perhaps starting the thread with the recent report of TPS spending 5 hours talking down an obviously distressed bus rider to a...

After 4 years of Ford's mayoral disgraces, how is it it took the crack video allegations for this city to clue in to the fact that there was something seriously wrong with him? What concerns me is kids watching this "public role model" ignoring all the rules, engaging in criminal behaviour and...

Did none of these mooks ever watch The Wire?

If this whole sad saga had been an Olympic event (with doping allegations and all) the Ford Legal Team would have won a Gold for their great defensive game.

So, the cops found the video, Rob fessed up to smoking crack, the cops charged Lisi with extortion so that they could protect this evidence with a publication ban, then extend Lisi's trial date repeatedly, allowed Rob to run for mayor again but cancer, so he runs for councilor and wins. Looks...

A more than bad joke. You have also denigrated women elsewhere in this forum, been called on it and just don't get it.

My pervious post about Doug "replacing" Hudak is that Doug's modus operendi seems to be to announce he's "considering" any opening that's coming up just to keep his name in the game. I think Patrick Brown learned from Harper that Doug is toxic and may not even be able to deliver a seat in...

Tim Hudak, the first target of Doug & Rob's 2010 "victory" ambitions is leaving provincial politics to become CEO of the Ontario Real Estate Board. Will Doug finally have a chance to replace him now?

You may, or may not, want to note that TDSB's Africentric Alternative School has been around since 2009 and last September extended its K-6 program to grade 8.. Just one of a variety of alternative schools in this city that are designed to address some of the diversity we encourage. And in the...

Like when a privileged white Mayor cuts a city budget for "public services" to ALL residents by 2.5% to keep property taxes under inflation? After repeatedly promising to make poverty reduction a "priority"? In spite of the fact that this city is growing by about 30,000 people a year?

Yesterday was a very interesting day with respect to police brutality and "justice". States Attorney Marilyn Moseby in Baltimore, in announcing the withdrawal of charges against the three remaining cases in the Freddie Gray death were relevant. She took aim at the Justice System in general and...

I know Mike's soft-spoken and he may have been a little hoarse from celebrating his victory, but sounded so un-Fordlike. He reverts to the Ford mantra without the Doug bark or the Rob rant, just wondering if he'll actually be heard above the usual din at council or be able to deliver the red...

How about an old white gal taking a shot at this from my parenting 101 days. If you do something wrong acknowledge the error and apologize. I mean the cops in Baton Rouge, in Minnesota, and in N. Miami. When the videos pretty much spoke for themselves, to have the local chief trying to reassure...

I woke up this morning to CBC radio report of the "breaking news", but before I could roll over and snooze a little longer they played an audio clip of him. Is his voice ever going to change? They also reported that Mikey said he was going to fight crime in N. Etobicoke. Well, he's got some...

No, actually we did have Black African slavery because while some Aboriginal people were enslaved, mostly they escaped and were deemed "ill-suited". And we didn't have a plantation economy so slaves were mostly used as domestic workers and tradespeople in cities/towns. Canada didn't abolish...

Sorry, factual error. The therapist was shot once in the leg with an assault rifle. The incident happened Monday and the victim is apparently still in hospital. I've seen/heard nothing about protests, apparently the victim's lawyer and the cops are in negotiations.

Goals, strategies, tactics and optics. Especially optics. In the news today the report of another police shooting this time of a totally compliant Black man, a therapist trying to talk his adult autistic patient off the middle of the road and back into the facility he had run out of. When the...

We here, and in the media, have spent much time and space comparing Rob Ford and Donald Trump in their speech, their style, their privileged sense of entitlement and their appeal to a significant portion of voters who feel angry, frustrated and fearful. In Canada we feel ours to be a...

Some really interesting stats are popping up in various media since Dallas. Just a for instance: apparently 27% of the victims of police shootings in the US nationally are identified as black, and 70% of cop killers are listed as white (which of course doesn't mean the remainder of perps were...

So, assuming he gets elected by voters that are thicker than him, if Mikey sticks to his uncle's career development history, 10 years on Council to develop some quirks and he'll be ready to run for Mayor. But then he couldn't stick it out for 1 term at TDSB. Also, it looks like Pat Brown has...