Rob Ford's Toronto

[rightwingSUVdriver]

Hah! Better slip in a dud or two in case they start stealing your stuff.

The only one which didn't ring true when my imagination read them out to me in Rob Ford's whiny voice was the first one. What the hell do the Fords know about embarassment?

I didn't specify, but I hear the first one in Doug Ford's voice.

 

[euler]

Hah! Better slip in a dud or two in case they start stealing your stuff.

The only one which didn't ring true when my imagination read them out to me in Rob Ford's whiny voice was the first one. What the hell do the Fords know about embarassment?

What the hell do the Fords know about philosophers or economists?

 

[casita]

Campaign slogan for Chow:

"Olivia Chow for Mayor: You know I'll work like a dog."

http://www.torontorobford.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/rob-ford-orientals-work-like-dogs.png

 

[euler]

http://www.torontorobford.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/rob-ford-orientals-work-like-dogs.png

 

[kaboi]

I didn't specify, but I hear the first one in Doug Ford's voice.

"Her spending plan would make Sylvia Stalin blush"

 

[Greg Banks]

He's only 3 years older than my brother...makes him look like a teenager. I did think he was in his 50s for a while. And those teeth..ugh.

The teeth eh? Do you think khat might have something to do with it?

 

[casita]

Sorry, forgot to add a to my reply!

 

[euler]

Oh I've got a slogan for Robbie too

"Rob Ford for Mayor: So you can have more to eat at home."

 

[Soop]

Oh, I was wrong. Ford was not the first with the subsidized housing myth.

Ann Hui ‏@annhui 4m
Stintz spox on CP24 right now taking shots at Chow. Brings up fact she used to live in subsidized housing. "She's a double-dipper"

 

[casita]

Oh, I was wrong. Ford was not the first with the subsidized housing myth.

Ann Hui ‏@annhui 4m
Stintz spox on CP24 right now taking shots at Chow. Brings up fact she used to live in subsidized housing. "She's a double-dipper"

More on the story ( with sources ) here:

Layton and Chow were also the subject of some dispute when a June 14, 1990, Toronto Star article by Tom Kerr accused them of unfairly living in a housing cooperative subsidized by the federal government, despite their high income.[36] Layton and Chow had both lived in the Hazelburn co-op since 1985, and lived together in an $800 per month three-bedroom apartment after their marriage in 1988. By 1990, their combined annual income was $120,000, and in March of that year they began voluntarily paying an additional $325 per month to offset their share of the co-op's Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation subsidy, the only members of the co-op to do so. In response to the article, the co-op's board argued that having mixed-income tenants was crucial to the success of co-ops, and that the laws deliberately set aside apartments for those willing to pay market rates, such as Layton and Chow.[37] During the late 1980s and early 1990s they maintained approximately 30% of their units as low income units and provided the rest at what they considered market rent. In June 1990, the city's solicitor cleared the couple of any wrongdoing,[38] and later that month, Layton and Chow left the co-op and bought a house in Toronto's Chinatown together with Chow's mother, a move they said had been planned for some time.[39] Former Toronto mayor John Sewell later wrote in NOW that rival Toronto city councillor Tom Jakobek had given the story to Tom Kerr.[40]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Layton#Toronto_City_Council

 

[Dubster]

Rob Ford: "I've never met an NDPer who doesn't love to tax and spend."

NDP governments have the best fiscal record of any political party in power in Canadian history:

http://www.progressive-economics.ca/2011/04/29/fiscal-record-of-canadian-political-parties/

 

[SecretSquirrel]

Layton and Chow were also the subject of some dispute when a June 14, 1990, Toronto Star article by Tom Kerr accused them of unfairly living in a housing cooperative subsidized by the federal government, despite their high income

Emphasis mine. Remember that bit. It may come in handy.

 

[sarnya]

Let's invent some future idiotic Ford quotes re: Chow:
"Her spending plan would make Karl Marx blush"
"Her lefty friends on council are going to leave Toronto poor as a church mouse"
"She's got a three part plan, folks - spend, spend, and spend."
"She wants to run the city like a charity. I'm gonna keep running it like a business"

[video=youtube;Vey7GKNpl4Q]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vey7GKNpl4Q[/video]

 

[casita]

lizchurchto 12:30pm via Twitter for BlackBerry
Mayor Rob Ford on Olivia Chow: She makes David Miller look like a Conservative.".

As long as former Mayors are comparing themselves to one another, "I’m not a genius, obviously, but he makes me look like one."

Mel Lastman on Rob Ford in 2012.

Come back while there is still time, Mel! All is forgiven!!

 

[Kat_YYZ]

The weirdest part about the Smith story is that his connection to the whole thing has never been explained. We still don't know who shot the video, whose phone it was on, or why Smith was in that photograph.

Also, stealing Smith's phone during the shooting: that is weird. You have a beef with someone, they end up dead, you GTFO. You don't stop to grab their phone, which in any case directly connects you to the murder.

Mo trying to sell the video being stupid, well, he had no reason to believe that anyone outside their circle knew about the video or where it came from (if it deed indeed come from Smith's phone).

I am still unconvinced that Smith was killed *for* the phone but I think he is tied up in this in ways we don't yet understand. It's quite possible that he was killed because of a pre-existing beef AND he had the video on his phone, and they knew it, and took it.

I'm not so sure it's weird to steal the phone. First of all, it could have all kinds of interesting info a rival dealer/gang member could use. Second, if he saw Smith using the phone (the ITO says he was texting, possibly also talking, with Liban Siyad), well, those calls and texts are probably "hey guess who's here at the club" and identifying him. And then minutes later Smith is dead. So those calls/texts give a clue to the identity of the killer(s). So you don't want to leave that evidence for police.

The ITO suggests it was Smith who initiated the confrontation (pg 12-14). But the ITO also says the motive for Smith's murder was "also detailed during interceptions, and revealed the murder may have been retaliation for SMITH and his associates robbing MOHIADAN aka 'Post' last November."

So why is Smith wanting to kill this "Post" guy (who was apparently there with the shooter Hashimi)? It seems like they have more reason to be mad at Smith than he at them, yet he is the instigator? Maybe they stole his phone (with the video on it) sometime before that night, and the phone he had on him was a newer one.