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Roger that. At least Rob Anders's political career appears to have been slain (I'll be sick if he somehow slimes his way back into office), and there's hope that the CPC will lose Calgary Centre to Liberal Kent Hehr. But: Harper, Kenney. Not exactly progressive, and not exactly in danger...

To be less sour than I was in the previous two posts ... Best wishes to UTers doing what they can to get out the vote in the municipal election!

Star story on Ghomeshi ... http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/10/26/cbc_fires_jian_ghomeshi_over_sex_allegations.html I'm not going to comment, other than to point out that this is the kind of thing a paper's lawyers will have looked at very hard, as with the G&M story on Doug the...

That the Sun printed that is close to literally unbelievable. The whole chain from Donato to whoever made the last go/no-go decision is awful. What the hell. Sun Media employs Ezra L and Joe W, spews out a shitload of toxic BS every day, i'm used to that, and still I find myself shocked.

Ha! You may have thought that you ruined my evening, but it turns out that gratüitous diacritics are eäsy to post! ETA: Was more or less sincerely admiring your è. Weird coincidence that at the same time the lemur disliked your earlier use of ü.

Yeah, exactly. I'm not hoping for a generation or two to die early here! I hope it's not insanely naive to think that a 6-digit number of TOers might see some sort of light sometime in the future, even if they vote for Doug on Monday.

sweetlou, you are admirable. I really hope you get to celebrate a win on Monday! If that doesn't happen, I hope you're not too discouraged to fight again in the future. it really makes me reflect. I've snarked and despaired a lot more about politics than I've tried to make a case to total...

Over the decades, I've said to people many times, You can't judge an idea by the words and actions of its stupidest or meanest adherents. For example, environmentalism has some seriously loopy believers. That does not mean that pumping CO2 into the air as if it has no effect or building...

Way to go, Amherstview! No, seriously, that is not the lighter side of anything ... That is awful and hideous bullshit. It is not funny.

Wow, that is sweet. Somehow it seems like quite a lot of dust got into my eyes while I was reading that! ;) Please, though, No-o-o-body else should post that kind of thread-is-over lament until it is confirmed by voters that a large wooden stake has been driven through the heart of Doug...

Rob The Fuckin Guy Ford has been seriously "Out Of It" for a decade or more. Somehow, sometime in the soft underbelly of that decade-or-more, he got himself elected mayor of an important city. If he finds himself out of elected office on Oct 27, I say to him, Have a Fabulous Bender, just...

Yeah, probably! If you have solid memories of the Pearson years, Beatles performing in NY, etc., you may be a little older than me ... In any case, given your, uh, lengthy experience, have you seen anything happen in your lifetime, in Canada, remotely comparable to Fords Ruling Big Smoke? I...

Ha! I was, like, defo, a single-digit age when fuddle-duddle was a news story, and I am sorta old. So, I'm pleased that youngsters like adma are diligent students of history ... :p

I'd wager that at this moment Rob doesn't know, nor do the oncologists. If Rob wins, it's shitty for many reasons, not least of which are the insult to Andray Domise and his supporters, and the postponement of the day when Domise becomes an effective elected official.

I honestly without-snark respect those responses to the idea of strategic voting. However, I don't see those responses as evidence that Doug could possibly get to the 34% or so he needs to win in some kind of horrific 32% Tory, 32% Chow, 2% Goldkind scenario. As I said before, I will...

Thanks for that, all of it, the report and the political effort. Really good to hear from someone with feet on the ground in Ward 2, working hard for better government.

Just like Rob left office early in disgrace? Oh, wait, at this moment Rob is still Mayor of Toronto. Also, I will be in literal disbelief if Doug is elected mayor. If I get the news that Doug has won, no matter what I perceive at that moment to be mundane, detailed and undistorted, no matter...

I bet this has been posted already (so, so, so hard to keep up minute-by-minute around here ...). But in case it hasn't, this and the various tweets-in-reply are gold ... Regarding the whoa-this-giant-thread-might-soon-be-closed talk, I say, (1) It ain't over 'til it's over. (2)...

What the F? What is going on in Doug's brain? It is a psychiatric and neurological puzzle. Best explanation I can think of is: Doug is disappointed that, despite his best efforts, many citizens are unaware of exactly how giant an asshole he is and how shameless a liar he is.

Oh, man. I like Jose Canseco as Worst Endorsement Ever because I was a Jays fan starting in the mid-1980s's and have followed the Canseco craziness. But Duffy is probably funnier to a wider audience.