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Rob Ford's Toronto

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Mayor Rob Ford ‏@TOMayorFord 9m
Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back and change batteries in smoke alarms.

Daniel Dale ‏@ddale8 2m
Clocks go forward. "@TOMayorFord: Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back and change batteries in smoke alarms.â€

Don Peat ‏@reporterdonpeat 16s
Don't listen to Mayor Rob Ford's Twitter account: Spring your clocks forward an hour tonight, don't fall back #TOpoli pic.twitter.com/Xz9n7rVxyG

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penelope_sch said:
Wow - that's a scathing - and overdue - article. Well done on this one, Sun!
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The Sun has been banging this drum on the editorial page for a while. Back in January they had "If Rob Ford Won't Quit, He Deserves Defeat." on Dec. 4: "Mayor Ford? Not Now. Not Ever." On Nov. 5: "Rob Ford No Long Deserves the Public Trust." There are more, if you want to look them up. The columnists are another story — particularly Joe, Sue Ann and Strobel, none of whom are worth their paycheques, IMO.
 
Kat_YYZ said:
Mayor Rob Ford ‏@TOMayorFord 9m
Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back and change batteries in smoke alarms.

Daniel Dale ‏@ddale8 2m
Clocks go forward. "@TOMayorFord: Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back and change batteries in smoke alarms.â€

Don Peat ‏@reporterdonpeat 16s
Don't listen to Mayor Rob Ford's Twitter account: Spring your clocks forward an hour tonight, don't fall back #TOpoli pic.twitter.com/Xz9n7rVxyG

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Haha!


Dear Church RoFo said he would show up at on Sunday morning:

He will be late due to Drunken Stupor Time, and has already posted his excuse on Twitter.


Also, WTF, this is too early. I am not ready for MDT (Morning Darkness Time). It got to +10C here today, finally, after being < -15C for well over a week. Spring ought to arrive in a bigger way before we change our clocks.
 
Kat_YYZ said:
Mayor Rob Ford ‏@TOMayorFord 9m
Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back and change batteries in smoke alarms.

Daniel Dale ‏@ddale8 2m
Clocks go forward. "@TOMayorFord: Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back and change batteries in smoke alarms.”

Don Peat ‏@reporterdonpeat 16s
Don't listen to Mayor Rob Ford's Twitter account: Spring your clocks forward an hour tonight, don't fall back #TOpoli pic.twitter.com/Xz9n7rVxyG

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Guess he's missing some sort of social media coordinator? Where is that guy anyway?
 
Kat_YYZ said:
Mayor Rob Ford ‏@TOMayorFord 9m
Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back and change batteries in smoke alarms.

Daniel Dale ‏@ddale8 2m
Clocks go forward. "@TOMayorFord: Daylight Saving Time starts this evening, turn your clocks back and change batteries in smoke alarms.â€

Don Peat ‏@reporterdonpeat 16s
Don't listen to Mayor Rob Ford's Twitter account: Spring your clocks forward an hour tonight, don't fall back #TOpoli pic.twitter.com/Xz9n7rVxyG

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Too funny.
Thank goodness for Don Peat. He has such a dry sense of humour.
I like your rolling head too Kat. :)
 
“Don’t you think that the average blue-collar worker feels that they have no voice?†asks George Kiriakou. “I like his approach to fiscal responsibility.â€
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Yeah, as if the average blue-collar worker can afford $14 + HST for diner bacon + eggs w/coffee possibly extra...
 
Johnny Au said:
...hence the popularity of Twitter with Sun readers.
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Fiorito at the Star writes like that too. It's more about wanting every sentence to have the portentousness of a single profound thought than anything to do with reading comprehension. Sun readers aren't that into Twitter - they like commenting on the Sun site and that's about it.
 
the lemur said:
Fiorito at the Star writes like that too. It's more about wanting every sentence to have the portentousness of a single profound thought than anything to do with reading comprehension. Sun readers aren't that into Twitter - they like commenting on the Sun site and that's about it.
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it's also standard, old-school AP/CP/journalism style: single sentence paragraphs, inverted triangle with the key details up front, gradually petering out to the less important facts.

The style goes back to bad old days when folks still had to physically "lay-out" the whole newspaper. In order to fit within available space, any story had to be able to be chopped at any paragraph break and still make sense, and be able to stand alone without its last X number of 'graphs. Any daily newspaper reporter who earned their pay back in the print-only era, pre desktop publishing, would have learned that style. Some have managed to shake it off, and others still write that way by choice thinking it the best and simplest way to get the story across. YMMV.
 
Parker said:
it's also standard, old-school AP/CP/journalism style: single sentence paragraphs, inverted triangle with the key details up front, gradually petering out to the less important facts.

The style goes back to bad old days when folks still had to physically "lay-out" the whole newspaper. In order to fit within available space, any story had to be able to be chopped at any paragraph break and still make sense, and be able to stand alone without its last X number of 'graphs. Any daily newspaper reporter who earned their pay back in the print-only era, pre desktop publishing, would have learned that style. Some have managed to shake it off, and others still write that way by choice thinking it the best and simplest way to get the story across. YMMV.
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One additional point: Newspaper columns are narrow. Frequent breaks in paragraphs create a bit of white space on a page, making it easier to read.(And yes, it looks stupid online.) As for Fiorito, what can I say? Dude seems to think he's Studs Terkel. He's not.
 
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The Toronto Sun now realizes how bad a Ford re-election would be for Toronto...

Voltz said:
Pigs must now be able to fly.

The Toronto Sun is now saying, "Charges or no charges, don't re-elect Ford."

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/03/07/charges-or-no-charges-dont-re-elect-ford
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V: I learned over the past year that the right-leaning Toronto Sun had been stalwart supporters of Rob Ford and did
continue to for the most part defend him in light of the serious allegations against him...This opinion tells me that even
some staunch supporters are no longer going to support his re-election campaign full well knowing how potentially bad
a Ford re-election could be for the City of Toronto and a clear majority of its citizens want to move on and support a
new Mayor in the coming October 2014 election...I feel that this candidate should be strong enough to win a clear no-
contest majority especially in the event that RF still is on the ballot depending on how a criminal case against him can
result in a conviction that would demand his removal from office...

The last 12 months have been bad enough for Toronto dealing with this scandal but four more years of RF could be a disaster
in the making...

LI MIKE
 
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