The sign you see all over the Beach, these days.

Bob Richardson and I did John Tory’s show yesterday afternoon, as a kind of wrap-up to the gruelling municipal election.

We genially disagreed on who will end being a winner and who will end up losing – Bob understandably felt one way about who will win the Mayor’s chair, John and I felt differently – but on one candidate we all agreed: Mary-Margaret McMahon is the only person who can (and should) defeat the detestable Sandra Bussin.

As I have suggested over the months/years – here and here and here – Bussin is easily one of the worst elected representatives I have ever encountered.  And that’s saying something.

Don’t split the oppositon and let the awful Sandra Bussin get in again: vote for Mary-Margaret.  She is a driven and decent person, and I cannot endorse her candidacy enough.  Bob and John feel likewise.

Go, MMM!

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I post this only to note that various commentators were obviously right when they said that Frank Graves clearly is a Liberal agent provocateur, and his numbers are not ever to be trusted by Conservatives and conservatives.

I suggest who the winner will be, BTW, in my Sun column on Sunday.  Who d’ya think I pick?

(And, also BTW, his support among New Canadians is astonishing – or is it? Worth reading, too.)

Toronto Mayoral Race Full Report (October 22)

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Bob (in hiding), Gordie, Jim, James with Annie Smith.  Unidentified street person at right.

If you give me money, I’ll tell you stories about the other guys. Larry O’Brien is not included in this special one-time offer.

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To wit:

“I think this last batch of Catholic trustees has done harm not just to Catholic education, but all public education,” said Bruce Davis, who chairs the Toronto public board and is a longtime political strategist. “If I was a Catholic voter, I’d throw them all out.”

Way to piss off a bunch of campaign teams on the eve of E-day, genius. Brilliant.

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I was very, very sad to learn of her death yesterday. The news was broken by the man who is, in fact, her step-father, John Lydon.

Ari was a huge help to me on Fury’s Hour, and I can’t emphasize enough the importance she had – as an artist, as a woman – on the punk movement.

Here’s Ari and the Slits doing ‘Typical Girls.’  She was anything but.

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Davey.

And David Shiller – a.k.a., Davey Snot, the Thriller Shiller – wins.

Check it out:

Toronto lawyer David Shiller, who defends the bubble-blower in the original video, has offered to represent those facing legal action free of charge.

“His case in a very, very real sense threatens peoples’ right to comment on the police conduct at the G20, and that is undeniably a very important and controversial public issue,” Shiller said.

Shiller stumbled upon the bubbles incident while on a stroll through his Parkdale neighbourhood, and said what was captured in the video is only a small part of a greater display of force he describes as “frightening.”

“For a billion dollars, I could’ve got someone with a better attitude,” he tells Const. Josephs in the video, referencing the highly-criticized price tag of the G8 and G20 summits.

Our punk rock brother is all grown up!  He’s using big words and everything!

The confrontation between Davey and Officer Bubbles, wherein he does us proud, is here.   That’s him at about the 1:20 mark.

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The 100 Club is the oldest live music venue in London.  It is also a crucial part of the history of the Stones, Oasis, the Clash, the White Stripes and countless others.

Due to sky-high rents and exorbitant taxes, the 100 Club is facing closure in a matter of weeks. If you want to help prevent that, click here.

In the meantime, here’s a ditty by four of the loveable moptops who also played there.

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[…and, um, I’m Canadian, Peter.]

Mr. Peter Kormos: Of course, the Liberals have just finished their weekend confab during which the keynote speech was on the art of mudslinging.

Well, I read the book just Friday night, after I read that in the paper. But I do notice that there was some material distributed during that weekend confab. I have copies here.

(Blah blah blah.)

This is material that was handed out, I’m told, at the weekend confab by the Liberals where they were being spoken to by the American [sic] king of mudslinging, Warren Kinsella, for whom I have a great deal of admiration and who is, of course, an expert at mudslinging. I only wish he was one of ours, rather than the Liberals.

I like Warren Kinsella.

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Why did the former win, why is the latter (seemingly) about to do so? I’m interested in your views. Comments are open.

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