Rob Ford's Toronto

[Honest Ed has a posse]

Notice how small the OPP and police graphics are. From a distance they would be hard to read.

 

[sno man]

Good point, I hadn't thought about that.

It doesn't explain Cam Wooley's presence.

CP24 has been cycling through bodies @CH since Katie got promoted to Ottawa. He was there one day a month or two ago too, rare, but I wouldn't read much into it.

 

[kbdid]

TPS doesn't have a helicopter at the moment, I think. This could've been media that wasn't clearly marked. It was just notable because it was in a weird spot.

 

[TOBorn]

CTV has a red and white chopper. TPS' choppers are coloured like the cars, white with red and blue stripes. OPP is black and white.

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Wow. This just gave me 'goodies'.

 

[Honest Ed has a posse]

Since they don't own any, you can colour them any way you like in your head, dear.

 

[tiffer24]

reporterdonpeat 1:42pm via Web
"My brother (Rob Ford) starts at 6 a.m. until midnight" Doug Ford "Doing what though?" Adam Vaughan.

 

[TOBorn]

Damn ipad - goosies!

 

[Lucinda]

What is the intimidation though? Like who cares? What could they possibly do?

There's information in a police ITO that a friend of Rob Ford took a steel pipe to the legs of people who didn't give up information that Ford would have found useful to have.

Scott MacIntyre.

The organization Committe To Protect Journalists lists 70 killings of journalists, worldwide in 2013, where the motive have been confirmed.

Anything else?

 

[PinkLucy]

What is the intimidation though? Like who cares? What could they possibly do?

I don't know what they could do, but it is intimidating being filmed like this -- similarly in Council chambers and at the Ryerson debate the other day. Thugs and bullies do things like this. See Lucinda's response below.

As a descendant of people who fled the rise of a totalitarian regime and wound up in Canada, I find this incredibly disturbing and enraging. The intimidation tactics used by the Ford crew in council chambers during the power-stripping debate were shocking as well. At the risk of sounding presumptuous, I think many people who have grown up in a mostly civil and mostly democratic country like Canada have missed the significance of these episodes.

 

[Dubster]

Catch 22 Campaign @catch22campaign
Four Deluces donated a total of $10K to Rob Ford's campaign in 2010. Payback time? #topoli

!

 

[NoCleverName]

Since they don't own any, you can colour them any way you like in your head, dear.

"Currently, the Toronto Police Service does not have its own helicopter, but has access to the helicopters from York and Durham Regional Police, along with the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police." from Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Task_Force_(TPS)#Equipment

 

[ROFOMOFO]

reporterdonpeat 1:42pm via Web
"My brother (Rob Ford) starts at 6 a.m. until midnight" Doug Ford "Doing what though?" Adam Vaughan.

+10 to Adam Vaughan!

 

[newearthling]

This is one of my favourite yet!

Demon Doug Ford ‏@CllrDemon 3m
I WOULD NEVER MILK THE TAXPAYERS UNLESS YOU CALL INHALING THEIR SOUL THROUGH THEIR SINUSES "MILKING". FOOLS! IT'S CALLED "REAPING" #TOPOLI

 

[Honest Ed has a posse]

The TPS no longer has their own choppers. They use the OPP's or York region's when necessary. So a black and white OPP helicopter would make sense.

 

[euler]

C-GNLE and C-GETF are owned by Canadian Helicopters and would not be painted in that livery anymore.

They were sold. TPS does not own helicopters.