Let’s see:

• Toronto’s mayor doesn’t deny giving the finger to a six-year-old, while breaking the law.
• Mayor’s brother expresses desire to shutter libraries, and disses the greatest living Canadian writer.
• Mayor’s top aide is implicated in contract scandal.

…and all of it on the same day! Not bad, eh? Yep, we’re Toronto, and we’re world class!

“World-class,” indeed.  But not in the way we’d hoped, I suspect.

Tim Hudak supporter Rob Ford scans the horizon, looking for a small child he can swear at.

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Gays, lesbians and others who perished in the Holocaust were not “real victims,” quote unquote.

Eleven days ago, this same far-rightist tilted at me and others on Twitter for pointing out that Tim Hudak has pledged, in writing and on the floor of the Legislature, to defund abortion. When he was asked his role within the PC campaign, he went silent.

Blum is the campaign manager for the Hudak PCs in Toronto Centre.  He has a senior, formal role in the Hudak machine. Does Hudak agree with Blum that gays, lesbians and others were not “real victims” of the Holocaust?

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What hit you first was the voice.

Driving into Toronto from northern Ontario, that’s what struck you first. The voice. NDP Leader Jack Layton on the radio, announcing to a stunned Ottawa he was stepping down to battle what he called a “new cancer.”

And his voice — the voice that had propelled Layton and his New Democrats to its biggest-ever victory on May 2 — sounded like it belonged to another man. A much older man.

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Hope and pray he’s okay.

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Just got word: I’ve got a deal for book number seven – and for all of North American too.

Pretty excited about this one. Stay tuned for details.

All you regulars are going to be in this one – Gord Tulk and Namesake too!

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I’m a Liberal. I’m also a gun owner.

Now, I’ll bet those aren’t two sentences you’re used to seeing strung together.

But, in my case, it’s true. I don’t see them as being mutually exclusive concepts, either.

I got to thinking about guns, and the politics of guns, with the news this week the long-gun registry is a goner.

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She had talent, that’s a fact.

It’s also a fact that this one should be written up as a suicide. Because that’s what it was.

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I’ve read this a few times, and I don’t get it.

Is he saying they somehow deserved to die?

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For the right-wingers who claim that Tim Hudak can’t halt access to abortion: you’re wrong.  By killing LHINs, he kills Planned Parenthood.  He’s doing through the back door what he can’t do through the front door.

Here are the facts, from GritChik and others:

FACT: Planned Parenthood is funded, in part, through LHINs and the Government of Ontario.

FACT: Tim Hudak is pro-life and has signed a pledge to defund abortion.

FACT: Tim Hudak believes that it’s the government’s role to promote “the choice of life.”

FACT: Tim Hudak will scrap LHINs if elected premier.

Would Tim Hudak deny funding to pro-choice organizations like Planned Parenthood if he’s premier? And can someone please ask him this question?

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