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It's about time. Better late than never. Good on Ford for seeing the light. Having made a symbolic appearance and made a speech, he can move on to other business.
 
New poll out, done by Strategic Communications

ROB FORD’S APPROVAL RATING

Strongly approve: 21%
Somewhat approve: 13%
Neither approve nor disapprove: 12%
Somewhat disapprove: 12 %
Strongly disapprove: 36%
Don’t know/no answer: 6%

OF THOSE WITH AN OPINION

Strongly approve: 26%
Somewhat approve: 16%
Somewhat disapprove: 15%
Strongly disapprove: 43%
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http://torontoist.com/2012/05/poll-position-significant-drop-among-rob-fords-strongest-supporters/

PDF: http://www.stratcom.ca/assets/ford_approval_tracking_may2012.pdf
 
I think you can call this episode the "politics of redemption" - as if somehow that said individual becomes a "better" person by going through the act (be it dieting or going to the flag-rasing). It doesn't, when you consider the motivations behind doing so. It merely moves him away from being discriminatory in his behaviour and negligent in his duties.

AoD
 
Frankie1984 said:
New poll out, done by Strategic Communications



http://torontoist.com/2012/05/poll-position-significant-drop-among-rob-fords-strongest-supporters/

PDF: http://www.stratcom.ca/assets/ford_approval_tracking_may2012.pdf
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The irony is that those approval numbers are going to go up once people start to see major transit development underway in the election year -- even though the Mayor fought tooth and nail to cancel it. Without doing any research or following City Hall closely, people are going to attribute progress on the transit file to the Mayor.

While these numbers are encouraging -- to those hoping to see Rob Ford unseated -- they're really not much information without an adversary's numbers being compared to Ford's.
 
East-end garbage collection won't be privatized this term: Ford
Date: Sunday May. 20, 2012 8:58 PM ET

Mayor Rob Ford said Sunday he will not be pushing to privatize residential garbage collection east of Yonge Street before the end of this council term.

When a caller to his weekly radio talk show on NewsTalk 1010 asked when East York residents can expect to see a private company collecting their trash, Ford said that's coming "probably in the next term."

"We've done everything west of Yonge. When I get re-elected as mayor, we'll do everything east of Yonge," Ford said.

"That's going to be part of the next part of my platform…You're gonna have to be patient."

Outsourcing garbage collection across the city was one of Ford's key campaign promises in 2010. It has been a contentious issue in the city's negotiations with local CUPE unions.

Last May, council voted to privatize garbage collection after estimates showed the city could save millions of dollars each year by contracting out the work.

A few months later, council awarded GFL Environmental East Corporation the contract to collect garbage from Yonge Street to west of the Humber River. The seven-year contract is set to begin this August.

"We'll be privatizing all our garbage in the next three years," Ford said Sunday.
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http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/lo...atization-120520/20120520/?hub=TorontoNewHome
 
Riverdale Rink Rat said:
It's frickin' ridiculous that Ford has basically thrown in the towel on this term, 2 and 1/2 years before the next election.
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I don't see it for the garbage situation, yet. Private garbage collection won't even started yet west of Yonge Street. The company has to hire the garbage collectors (the same ones who currently collect it on the public payroll?), train them, and only then start to replace the collection routes. Give it some time after all the routes (west of Yonge) are in private hands, then we can do a comparison.
 
Right after the big 'subways, subways, subways!', defeat, Ford announced publicly that he was beginning his campaign for the next election immediately. That to me is a pretty clear statement of intent. Not surprisingly, he seems to have actually begun to do so.

So - is this legal? Is this within the city's code of ethics for it's politicians?
 
At some point, they'll probably cancel the whole thing with an alibi like "the scale's broken", or something
 
Well, mercifully this whole thing will be done with in June -- if not earlier. Ford will probably skip the final weigh in where he's supposed to have lost 50lbs because he will actually have lost only 16lbs but gained the weight of 16 KFC buckets.
 
This is becoming a classic tale of Ford's tenure as mayor. A councillor accuses Rob Ford of something and Doug (Holyday and/or Ford) jumps in to defend the mayor.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...-not-showing-up-at-the-office/article2440321/

It's tough accusation to make as the mayor appears available and present by being on the radio, occasionally doing a weigh in and his mall walks from this past winter. However, he's kept his schedule a secret by not releasing it when various media outlets requested it last fall/winter. The general public really has no idea what he does all day. I'd tend to believe Carroll's side of the story given the mayor's record of skipping council debates and showing up only to vote. He has a lot of other people doing his talking for him.

Also, is this an early sign of Shelley Carroll's intentions to run for mayor?
 
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