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Online polls are fake news, yes, but my point was not that Wynne is popular. She is very unpopular and winning another majority is extremely unlikely, if not impossible. My point was that these polls showing Ford way out ahead despite his considerable negatives are questionable, not least when...

I don't know why anyone is taking these polls seriously. We've seen wildly incorrect predictions on multiple occasions in recent years and methodologies seem to be getting worse not better. As for the above map, we're talking about ridings with a few hundred PC voters at the most. Not really...

Given the alt-right overtones here, I don't think it's unreasonable to recall that German conservatives thought Hitler and the Nazis could be controlled. Was that Godwin? Of course, Doug still reminds me mainly of my mom's cousin who also inherited a business and managed to run into the ground...

It’s all BS. They even are reporting something called a “credibility interval”, which is a pretend margin of error based on the purely “what if” scenario of a random sample. It means nothing. These polls have all the statistical validity of a radio call-in poll.

So you're in favour of helping ensure that foreign rich people can park their money in real estate in Toronto? Isn't housing for people that want to live and work here? Also, are you implying that CMHC lends "capital" to individual private home buyers?

Much like Cypher: How does a photo op at a steel mill help fight the proposed duties?

I just can't... it is so beyond embarrassing to have snubbed a foreign delegation in this fashion. Maybe Trudeau doesn't like mussels, fries with mayo, Trappist beer, Stella Artois, or Tintin? (I ran out of Belgian things, apart I guess from EU HQ) At some point I don't really understand why...

People were upset about the garbage strike and its outcome, but what can you do - no one usually wins with labour issues, and people don't want to believe that it's their lifestyle that generates all that stinking garbage. Lest we forget, Miller did not run for re-election in 2010. Who was...

Please do not impugn the memory of Ernie Coombs by associating him with this.

Nonsense. Scarborough sure is better off with the current nothing instead of the Sheppard LRT. It would have opened 5 years ago.

I don't think there's any evidence that Transit City was especially polarizing apart Ford's dishonest and braindead approach took hold of the city.

I don't think there's a (second) Great Leap Forward let alone another Cultural Revolution coming, no, but formalization of "rule for life" has never augured well for a political system. Of course, predecessors like Deng Xiaopeng and Jiang Zemin kept control of the CCP apparatus after...

I suppose I should look up his exact words, but I don't think it was even that coherent a thought. Chinese politicians are certainly much more serious than ours, but that must go with the territory of operating with little accountability as we understand it. The CCP also represents a...

Of course that situation is fairly unusual for Germany - and still ended up with a repeat of the CDU/CSU-SPD grand coalition after careful and transparent negotiations. Fairly sure all that German train and transit infrastructure has still been running with the usual efficiency - that's a...

While it might be fair to describe Ontario as lacking anything approaching a cultural identity (okay, it's very fair), I'm not sure that's true of the Prairies. And it's definitely not true of the Maritimes and really definitely not true of Newfoundland. Canada fairly strong regional identities...

This would be a perception fuelled by some of those same business and their politician-enablers/opportunists. What King needs is some retail and more coffee shops the Lightbox/theatre vicinity and fewer tourist trap restaurants. The contrast with Queen - which has neither the condos nor the...

How has line 2 “failed to be successful”? The problem in Toronto has been the building of subways on Sheppard and now to Vaughan while critical overcrowding developed on downtown routes. For those suggested a DRL (or any of the subway) should be under some other fare system, you’re bonkers...

It is not at all an “incredible deal” inasmuch as the province is perfectly capable of giving the city operating funding for the TTC. Like before 1995. No need for hare brained “uploading” or the implementation of zones or “premium” fares as occasionally is floated by Metrolinx types.

Everything we know about party "memberships" at this point should tell us that "grassroots" members are just a transient cypher that support specific candidates at specific times. We'd be better off having better, more contestable nominations, with the caucus choosing the leader. Would be far...

The government certainly has a role in dealing with exploitative phenomena like the unpaid "internship". How about those Sears pensioners who've lost everything because governments let hedge funds liquidate assets while leaving pensions unfunded?