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I'll take "Family Matters" for $1,000, Alex.

Yup. "Palliative" is a media thing, as far as I can tell. I haven't seen it in any of the Ford camp statements.

Not necessarily. My mother was a palliative patient for almost two years before she died from her cancer.

Yes. In some cases, docs will use chemo to slow the progress of a cancer or to relieve symptoms.

Hard to say, but the signs don't look good. Rob was saying that surgery before Christmas would be a great present. Nobody has said much since, except for a brief news itme about another chemo cycle. It's possible the family decided to make Rob's treatment a private matter, but my guess is that...

It's you.

If that happens, the beers are on me!

Has anybody seen Rob lately? I wonder how he's looking. Has anybody seen Rob recently? I wonder how he looks. The absence of bombast has me thinking things aren't going well (as our reported Filion comment indicates). I haven't heard any mention of surgery since before Christmas. Is that the...

Manslaughter doesn't require intent to kill. Attempted murder does. Also, IIRC, there's no minimum sentence for manslaughter. Attempted murder has a five-year minimum. Looks to me like the jury was trying to find a compromise. Probably couldn't agree on the second-degree murder, but didn't want...

Glen? Nah. He's a coward. From what I've seen, he jumps on whatever bandwagon the people he's sucking up to want. In the Miller years, he gushed about LRT as "the iPad of transit." Under Rob, it was subways, subways, subways. Then he followed Karen Stintz. Under Tory, well, his fourth station...

I think most people are done with the Ford story.

Money in Canadian book publishing? Not likely.

I read Fillion's book and thought he had a pretty good overall take on Ford as an individual and as a phenom. Too bad JF can't leave it at that. He seems to be drinking too much of his own koolaid.

How did he look, Jimmi? I can only remember the Rob-in-chemo photos/vids from last year after he'd had several rounds and looked mighty banged up.

My gut tells me Joe's masters got a stern call from the mayor's office about their correspondent's excesses. And the word came down from on high to smarten up. I wouldn't be surprised if it came Paul Godfrey himself, now that Postmedia owns the Sun chain.

If I'm reading the statement correctly, the questions are around the size of the tumors (pluaral?) and whether they are in/on the bladder or just near it. Seems that they've diagnosed the cancer part.

That's the big clue to a grim outlook, IMO. If Rob were taking a leave for treatment, he'd be able to look to a future return and make brave statements. (He did twice last year, after all.) The fact he's not talking about the future makes me think he's processing a real possibility that he...

Agreed. Ford must be an emotional wreck right now. The first time around, the doctors gave him a treatment plan with 50-50 odds of success. It was generic number, but it gave him something to hang on to and put up a brave face. This time around? No so much, it seems. We're not hearing the...

I'd imagine it's doable, especially given that he wants to travel for medical treatment. Whether he could make arrangements so quickly is another question. My guess is that Rob quietly checked into the hospital here to start treatment... but what do I know?

It's the English. They do things differently for reasons that are hard to understand. From what I've seen, newspapers there treat AIDS like a proper noun instead of an acronym.