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[video=youtube;y_ovkbQeqsc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ovkbQeqsc#t=80[/video]
Wow. Just wow.
time for another round of "what is ford on now".
[video=youtube;y_ovkbQeqsc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ovkbQeqsc#t=80[/video]
Wow. Just wow.
More media should do that
time for another round of "what is ford on now".
[video=youtube;y_ovkbQeqsc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ovkbQeqsc#t=80[/video]
Wow. Just wow.
Nordheimer challenged Levy on the delays, saying that beyond his concern for media seeking the information, there are people charged with offences who don’t know the case against them.
“It has been five months since the take down on this project,” Nordheimer said. “That is a long time to have no disclosure.”
Nordheimer adjourned the proceedings to consider several motions which could result in the release of the documents, but gave no date to expect his ruling.
Why does Ford sweat so much? I've never seen a man sweat like him
Not to mention many "conservative" fans of the Eagles, even though Don Henley etc are classic Hollywood Liberals...
but it's mentioned as a location in the globe & mail article the other day, and in other news articles earlier this month. i wonder what's up with that.
can't remember if this was highlighted already, so in case it wasn't, from that globe & mail article...
It currently has three plant locations in Toronto at 26 and 28 Greensboro Drive in Etobicoke, a relatively new one in California and one on the outskirts of Chicago, Illinois in Wood Dale that opened in the early part of the new millennium. They also have sales offices scattered around the United States including one in Hollywood, Florida.
Status of Annual Filings
2013 - Overdue
Corporate Name History
1962-02-23 to 1985-03-04
DECO ADHESIVE PRODUCTS LIMITED
1985-03-04 to Present
DOUG FORD HOLDINGS INC.
"Am I politically correct? No. I'm a little rough around the edges? Absolutely. I call a spade a spade." (1:17)
We cannot underestimate how much statements like this resonate with a huge amount of voters. This is what they like to hear from politicians and this is why Ford has been successful. The actual policies don't matter as long as Ford can say things like this.
summer of ’06, when John Parker found himself sitting with Doug Ford Sr. in the latter’s Etobicoke backyard. [...]
At one point, the fiscally conservative Parker suggested that young Rob, given his political views and obvious following, might one day contend for the mayoralty. “Doug said, ‘Yeah, I think you could be right — when he straightens himself out and he gets himself ready for the job.’”
their mother Diane has been an equally formidable influence [...]
“This is a solid mother bear,” Carroll remembers thinking. “If those kids were ever in the principal’s office, God help the principal when Diane got there.”
Their friendly chat, after all, had been peppered with Diane’s segues into the times Carroll and the mayor had locked horns, along the lines of, “ ‘I remember that one. Why weren’t you nicer to Rob on that one? You’re very nice, why can’t you be nicer to Rob?’
“And I thought, ‘you’ve been doing this for a long time, haven’t you?’”
To rookie councillors, the message from the mayor’s office was always the same, says Councillor Sarah Doucette: “’If you do this for us, we’ll do that for you.’
“I don’t work that way. I don’t play silly games. It’s like going back to kindergarten and playing in the sandbox.”
[...]
Even seasoned veterans like Carroll admit to being rattled by the Ford administration’s tactics, like the time in 2012 the mayor wanted Carroll to take over from Councillor Karen Stintz as chair of the TTC. The first entreaty, from a Ford staffer, came sometime after 6 p.m. on a Friday night. Carroll was still in her office. “I didn’t even get home when they called again,” she says.
After talking things over with her husband that night, Carroll decided she wasn’t interested and, as if to celebrate, the pair opened a bottle of wine. Then the phone rang. The mayor was on the line. It went on all weekend, until Carroll got a call Sunday night from a Ford staffer suggesting a get-together, perhaps even with the brothers Ford.
“ ‘There’s a Tim Hortons close to you; can we meet you there?’ ”
“ ‘I don’t know. When?’ ” Carroll replied.
“ ‘Well, we’re here now.’”
Carroll finally said enough was enough, and turned them down.
“I almost took them up on their offer because they’d so messed with my head,” she says. “You’d think I’d be pretty immune.” That got her wondering how rookie councillors would react to any pressure from the mayor’s office, not least those who’d won election by the slimmest of margins. Doug Ford, after all, was known to call out “2014, baby” during council sessions, a vaguely threatening reference to the next time the rookies would have to face voters.
“I’m thinking, oh my God. I remember how nervous and how jazzed I was all the time in my first term. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be a first-term councillor in this administration. It must be the most nerve-racking thing ever.”
Holyday and others have tried talking to the mayor about improving his behaviour, but Ford seems impervious. “He listens attentively and sometimes he says he will, or he won’t, but it doesn’t seem to change him much, at this point. I’m not sure he takes advice as well as he should.”
“There almost appears to be a childlike enthusiasm for some of the outlets of life,” adds Siemiatycki. “It wouldn’t surprise me if the thing that gives Rob Ford great pleasure in life is the time he spends on the football field and coaching those kids. I don’t mean this pejoratively, but there is the mindset of a teenager in Rob Ford.”
Yes - almost everyone who works with computers unless you crush a hard drive you can recover almost everything off of it
This argument could be made for almost everything in our culture from the last 45 years or so. Many conservatives -- myself included -- love Led Zeppelin, even though Jimmy Page and Robert Plant are as liberal as they come. Conservatives love Hollywood movies, which are mostly made by liberals, etc... Everyone, left or right, is influenced by liberal culture.
No. I'm a professional in the industry. After one complete wipe of the drive with zeros or random data, everything is completely unrecoverable.
UT has always had a large representation from this demographic. You see it in this thread where many with no legal expertise believed with strong conviction that Ford was going to jail. I think much of the "ignorant but sure" crowd can be attributed to the younger folks on UT, plus the man-childs in their 20s and 30s still living in their parents' house. Once you live a little, you begin to see that there is a difference between opinion, desire and fact.On another note, it really annoys me how some of you people talk with such conviction about things you obviously know nothing about.
McArthur goes on: “Anyone who has ever peered into the financial affairs of the mayor and his family would find his identifying with ‘poor people’ peculiar. His family’s many assets include the label and sticker business, Deco Labels and Tags Inc., co-founded by the mayor’s late father, as well as substantial residential and commercial real estate holdings. It is difficult to put an exact price tag on his family’s worth … But public records show that Mr. Ford and his family members are far better off than your average Canadian.”