Dilla
Senior Member
How come none of the lurid details reported by the Star were captured on cell phone cameras?
Pics or it didn't happen!
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How come none of the lurid details reported by the Star were captured on cell phone cameras?
Ford has just changed his Facebook cover photo to one with him and Chuvalo
Was just looking back at the beginning of this thread at all the predictions and assumptions we made. Not to worry, most of us were flat out wrong. Of course this doesn't stop us (and me) from making predictions on what's going to happen next with Ford.
The province didn't fail to step in either.To be honest though, I think my prognostics were off - the province didn't step in per se, given it's a process issue and it's his worship's failure to follow through that ultimately produced the outcome we have today. Quite a damning indictment on his competency, and in agreement with what others have long predicted but doesn't change that my prediction is off.
Still I think some are underplaying the province's influence, that has clearly been wielded, though not blatantly until recently (with the quick rejections anytime someone starts suggesting changes). Ford didn't get one penny of funding for his subway plan from the province.That's only half accurate and revisionist - at the very least Metrolinx/the province caved and reopened the process even after the initial contracts are already in progress. Obviously they drew the line at Eglinton, but one wouldn't call that a position of strength in spite of the fact that they are ones holding the purse strings.
The use of taxpayer-paid city employees for non-city purposes is a likely violation of council’s code of conduct. In fact, Ford was found by the integrity commissioner to have violated the code in 2010 for what appears to be an identical issue: using his staff to assist with his foundation’s work.
The email was sent from a Gmail account, not Fickel’s city account. The Star could not determine late Wednesday whether the listed number belongs to the city or to Fickel personally.
There's two things wrong with this latest story.
First, he's having city staffers work on not only his football team, but also do work for his football foundation, making it more difficult to separate the mayor's office from his foundation, which keeps getting him in trouble.
Secondly, he's using money from his foundation for what seems to be an attempt to parachute himself to coach a new school as Don Bosco has tired of him - another way he's using staffers to support a personal hobby.
Of course it's easy to say that this isn't a big deal, it's not in the grand scheme of things. But it is using city resources for personal interests and complicating the what should be arms-length relationship between the foundation and the mayor's office.