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He lost what little support he had in Toronto as a result of his downloading, the Eglinton Subway killing and amalgamation. Hudak won't make those mistakes, because he'll need seats from Toronto if he wants a real majority. And he knows that.

That's what CUPE thought in summer 2009 with the garbage strike, too. It ended up costing their good friend his seat as mayor, not to mention pissing off most of the city. If we get a protracted TTC strike in nay time past October 2011, Hudak is going to order them back to work, and Ford is...

And spend a lot of money to add to the number of car accidents, injured and dead cyclists, air pollution and angry drivers? Yeah, real improvement that would be. Ford isn't gonna follow through on those promises, especially if its Adam Vaughan who ends up being the de facto leader of the opposition.

Ivory Towers? *laughs* Man, I live in a small house in a middle-class Oshawa neighborhood. F--k that. :D As for Dalton, I want him gone too, but Hudak is a Harris clone, and we don't need that slur-uttering idiot or any reincarnation of him back again. If I was the NDP, I'd be out campaigning...

I'm not 100% certain about that. Hudak can say all he likes, but if he wants votes in the GTA he can't do that while scraping Transit proposals, which are largely McGuinty's doing. Hudak will be the same as Ford here - let it go on, focus on something else. In Hudak's case, that'll be the HST...

I've read worse puns. Either way, Kinnear better get the message that his crap isn't gonna tolerated any more. If he thinks that Ford is gonna deal with him as Miller did he's insane. And if the province doubles down and goes for Hudak, he's in trouble. No, scratch that. If Hudak becomes...

Well, we can forget about Toronto hosting the Olympics now.

Vaughan will be the guy running things for the council left in a month, two months tops. Ford better get start learning some moderation or he's gonna end up becoming a joke himself. And memo to Torontonians who voted for Ford from a suburb dweller - have you fucknuts forgotten what happened when...

More like making the first step towards Ford going down, or so he thinks. Kinnear better get his shit together, pronto. If Toronto residents are POed enough to vote Ford into the mayor's office, they aren't gonna cut him nay slack in negotiations. He had best get used to making sacrifices now or...

Not neccessarily. You may lose the quietness and large houses and large yards. You gain in having better access to transit options, in most cases you gain in having more choices for stores and restaurants and schools and other amenities. You don't need to drive a car everywhere, which is good...

Yeah. I'm no environmentalist when it comes to cars (my car is a substantially-modified 1988 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme that I wouldn't drive downtown for fear of setting off car alarms, not to mention its gas mileage is abysmal), but I absolutely loathe SUVs. There are people who need them. But...

If you tore down a large house and put up two smaller ones, you have just doubled the density, assuming the same number of people live in a house. Paris isn't all 9-11 story buildings. And Toronto could easily have greater density while still allowing people to have yards. I'd bet Toronto could...

Of course. Note that I am NOT saying do this instead of fixing mass transit. This thread has had a lot of people say there is no solutions that involve infrastructure. People changing their habits is hit and miss, which counts for both different driving habits and people leaving their cars at...

The Action Jackson For Toronto Platform I have no doubt this will be an interesting discussion indeed. Hopefully one which stays on topic rather than flame wars. OK, this is my "Think Big" platform..... Focus on getting people into shelter beds. Panhandlers and homeless should get roofs...

This doesn't make me queasy, but it does make me wonder why you said that. As much as most of us find him aggravating and repulsive, we don't acutally want him dead. We'd rather he'd shut up, but nobody deserves death for political opinions. That 9/11-scaled enough for ya? :D

The problem with the "peak oil" bit is that technology has already made peak oil irrelevant. There is hundreds of billions of barrels locked in America's Green River Basin in oil shale. Technology to produce oil from coal already exists and has been used on a commercial scale in South Africa...

Part of it. Another part is that the cars tend to be more efficient. Australia's fuel costs are about the same as Canada, which are significantly higher than the US, and people tend to drive cars or smaller vans/SUVs than the monstrosities that rule American roads. One of my opinions is that...

Securing a border as long as that between the US and Mexico is impossible, especially with the differences in living conditions between them, unless you want to turn the US border into the Berlin Wall, and erect another such wall along the Rio Grande River which marks the Texas-Mexico Border...

100% on the money, and its added to by the fact that America's policymakers truly don't care about massive swaths of the population, and the US media is a bunch of lame, narrow-minded parrots who want to keep political mayhem so that they can keep having big stories to cover. Policy decisions...

I do agree on the comment about voting for policies. That's why most of us don't like him. His platform effectively is nothing more than hacking and slashing, and while trimming budgets is certainly not wrong, hacking based on ideology is. Not to mention the biggest issue of this election...