There’s another YouTube Rob Ford thing out this morning and I hate it: it evinces too much sympathy, or likeability, for Mayor Crackhead. It misses the mark.
This video, meanwhile, naturally doesn’t. You can see this band, considered Canada’s finest and most-wonderful geriatric punk combo, at the Tranzac Club next Wednesday, and at the Bovine at the end of the month. Be there or be square, etc.
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April 16, 8 pm, Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick, in TO. For CUP and student media. We will have a different line-up than ever before seen: history will be made.
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So I go over to George Brown College at noon to give a speech thing to their board. It went well. Felt good. Went for lunch at the Patrician. Talked to Terry and Chris.
Later, driving on Lakeshore with my little guy – and the front left wheel cover comes flying off my truck. Flies off. Throw on the emergencies and get off the road.
Guess what? When I was at the speech or the diner – parked in broad daylight on one of the busiest streets in Toronto – someone hit the front left and just kept on going. Left no note, nothing. Nobody else did, either.
Just finished with the parts guy. It’s going to cost me a few bucks under my $500 deductible. Asked the guys there if I should call the cops, they laugh. “They won’t do anything,” guy says.
I therefore hate everything tonight. Stay away from me.
I once said to a Conservative who was a friend of his that I thought he’d been a not-bad finance minister. She didn’t believe me. So I wrote this.
Apparently it amused him when he saw it; I was amused to hear that he was amused.
Anyway. Condolences to his family. Big shock.
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…as opposed to that horseshit in the Star showing Hudak far ahead. Remember: it’s Forum.
This snapshot reflects what insiders know is the reality. It’s a three-way race, and Horwath has the most momentum.
Gord Tulk, who resembles a computer virus, has defamed a person in comments by calling them a member of a terrorist group. I don’t want to get sued for his stupidity, so he’s gone.
Oh, and this web site isn’t anyone’s personal sandbox. Keep that in mind, please and thanks.
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Despite the sneaky efforts of a lunatic in Ottawa, my amazing lawyers, Brian Shiller and Angela Chaisson, won me another case yesterday. The defendants learned, the hard way, not to rely on the urgings of lunatics.
Congrats and thanks to Brian and Angela. They’re pit bulls.
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Imagine having four young kids, a professional wife who helps you run a school, and that you do a lot of charity work – raising money for orphanages and whatnot. Imagine going to work, and then being attacked in your office by a bunch of thugs, and then thrown in the worst prison in the country. Imagine being denied your heart meds and roughed up and denied even a chance to see your kids. Imagine not being charged, and sleeping on a concrete floor for months.
This guy is a U of T grad. The people below are his family. They’re Canadians.
Why the Hell aren’t the Canadian and Ontario governments doing anything to help them out?
That’s not very nice, even for Toronto Life. (Although if they think I’m Arya Stark, who I adore, I’m okay with it.)
Anyway, keep blaming me for everything, go ahead. Knock yourself out.
But keep this in mind: the fans of Rob Ford and John Tory (who are basically the same people, but with different vocabularies and hairstyles) are making a big, big mistake if they think that just one person is behind the criticism of them.
There are many, many, many people who are critical of them. As they will see in October of this year, big time.
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