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Rob Ford's Toronto

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You have to get these people into rehabilitation and if they don’t want to go, well, then you just enforce the law. If it’s illegal, you arrest them. That’s the bottom line and if they have to dry out in jail — great.
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Rob Ford -- Tuesday, October 18, 2005
 
SFO said:
Oh God Joe Warmington what are you doing.
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Shoving his nose as far up Doug Ford's ass as he can, for now. Maybe the three of them (along with Ross the Mall Cop) can start their own party.

In case it needs to be said: anyone working for a Sun newpaper or Sun TV has burnt their bridges in "consensus media" as they like to call it. It's like how some failed actresses turn to porn, sometimes even successfully. Sun is porn, just not in the gets-you-hard way.
 
Dilla said:
Hey Drunk Superman, if you're reading this, do you like the new Roc Marciano?

I say it's more dope than the mayor himself.
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Drunk Superman ‏@ManuvSteele 6m
So which one of you is Peepers? lol And Dilla, I haven’t heard the new Roc Marci yet. Cage, Cam’ron, Pusha & Bronson lately.
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and this

Drunk Superman ‏@ManuvSteele 4m
Also Peepers, my friend had his car shot cause it happened to be parked on street during random gunfight. Nothing to do with him at all.
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Drunk Superman ‏@ManuvSteele 1m
intriguing lol
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LOL
 
Dilla said:
I've never gone to a protest before, but I'll probably go next Wednesday. I was thinking of what sign I'd have, and I'm musing "everyone's laughing but us"
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My suggestion is something like "YOUR FATHER WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU TO RESIGN" -- that would hit him where he lives.
 
Yet while Kassim, Khattak, Siad and Mohamed are all under arrest, Rob Ford is still the unimpeachable mayor of Toronto.

Ahmed Hussen, president of the Canadian Somali Congress, has spearheaded efforts in Edmonton and Toronto to keep kids out of gangs. The Ford affair, he says, has smeared all Somali-Canadians, most of whom are law-abiding.

"We became collateral damage in the media's pursuit of Mayor Ford," he says. "It's ironic. You have a situation where all these young men from our community are in jail, yet the mayor has never been questioned by the police, even though his best friend has been charged with extortion."

Eventually, Torontonians will have to pass political judgment on their mayor. But however laughable Ford's antics, the Dixon Bloods are no joke - and Ford's highprofile recreational activity exacts a high human cost.

"A lot of families in our community have lost their sons to gun violence, both in Alberta and Ontario," says Hussen.

Is it too much to expect our politicians to be part of the solution, not part of the problem?
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http://www2.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=a6bafc80-e821-41f3-90fc-ef561582f328
 
Crack use connects Rob Ford to gang culture he condemned after Danzig shootings

Ford’s association with these people and events has compromised his position of leadership and his role as the mentor he has often claimed to be, many say.

“To inspire police officers to put their lives on the line to police gun crime, surely a public leader has to speak from a position of moral authority. How can Ford possibly do that when he’s been smoking crack with a crew of suspected gun dealers?” said leading criminal lawyer Reid Rusonik.

Bill Blair and other justice system officials have repeatedly commented on the impact of drugs and gun violence in Toronto.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2...ture_he_condemned_after_danzig_shootings.html
 
Peepers said:
I hope I'm not a marked man
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He outed himself when he tweeted the screen shot of the file folder with the encrypted video files (which he then deleted).

He seems like the type of person who could be a hacker - seems to have a lot of technical knowledge - also from his tweets he seems to be heavily into the rap and hip hop scene and claims to have been shot and stabbed in the past (a friend of his had his car shot out this week) i.e. sounds like someone who would come into contact with Fords associates.
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I'm still wondering if ManuvSteele was/is CowboyLogic. For some reason they remind me of each other.
 
PinkLucy said:
Cowboy Logic could never tweet. He needs way more than 140 characters
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Funny, and probably true. I know that's why I don't use Twitter much. Twitter seems like it's designed to entice flame wars.

On a more Ford related note, I've noticed a few Ford nationals arguing that we should be calling for Trudeau to resign because of his admitted marijuana usage. Ford nation loves their logical fallacies. I can only imagine what they'll be saying after the next revelation.
 
facepalming_brooklynite said:
Thanks. I think you have a point, I might be generalizing too much. My experience is just that of a passer-by, and I have a sense of the places, but not so much of the people who live in them.

Some of the strip malls do have interesting restaurants or food stores that are probably able to serve as focal points for immigrant communities, but you still pretty much have to drive there, you can't just walk by and stumble upon places and meet new people easily. For me, this contrasts very much with New York: if you go to the inner suburbs there, i.e. Queens, Bronx, and the non-gentrified parts of Brooklyn, you have pedestrians everywhere, there's vibrant street life and people mingling, and a real sense of community, even if people on one city block come from three different continents. You can walk along Queens Boulevard or Coney Island Avenue, but you can't walk along Keele for more than one strip mall at a time.
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You really can't compare New York, which was built so much earlier. And Keele and Jane aren't the nicest looking parts of the city, even down south (no offence, Keele and Jane!). Dufferin isn't much better but Bathurst has lots of post-war strip malls that are very vibrant and (at times) not unlike what you'd see in Queens. Obviously Yonge gets more auto-centric, but it's still the densest artery even up into the 905, and then as you go further east you get more proto-typical suburban streets. There's a lot of diversity, even across North York.

Shawn Micallef actually did a really good article which I'm happy to have just found, on how strip malls act as incubators for innovative small business and, more to the point, how and why downtown and the suburbs have to reconcile (and it links to a TEDtalk on the same subject:
http://www.thestar.com/life/2012/10...uburbs_why_toronto_needs_to_call_a_truce.html

To get 100% back on thread, I think people are getting perhaps a bit TOO imaginative with the videos. Handjob from a minor sounds about right but I'm not sure how a video would be the key to unlocking the Ford Bros. secret drug-dealing empire. I guess we'll know soon enough. It's hard to imagine we'll actually have to wait until a trial to see these things....And while I understand Ford was too stoned out of his gourd to know people filmed him doing various things, he must have at least SOME sense of what's yet to come out which makes both his tenacity and his declaration that "I have nothing else to hide," perhaps the strangest turn in this whole drama. (e.g. I get that he hasn't maybe actually seen the "First Video," but he must accept by now that he's stoned and slagging Trudeau, right? Right?)
 
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