On 2013-11-07 03:49, nause wrote:
Bob. If you are implying that I am British you are mistaken. EVERY English speaking country in the world except for the US spells "humour" in the manner described. Just because I am not American does not necessarily mean that I am British. Rob Ford is Canadian. This thread is about the mayor of a large CANADIAN city. I am CANADIAN therefore I spell in the Canadian manner. It is true that some American spelling has crept in up here but it is nevertheless incorrect spelling as far as Canada is concerned.

On 2013-11-05 17:34, balducci wrote:

I'm trying to figure out why Rob Ford's enabler brother, Doug Ford, is getting such a free pass.

He is a City Councillor and it seems to me that he was involved in the cover-up, publicly denying facts about his brother for months.

On 2013-11-06 18:06, balducci wrote:

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On 2013-11-06 11:12, frankvomit wrote:

I guess I'm not so quick to condemn him because he is pretty much responsible for saving toronto's economy.

Go troll elsewhere, Rob.

Well I stand corrected !

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013......ob-ford/

Rob Ford was always a nice idea: a fiscal hawk who was going to roll up his sleeves and straighten out the city hall of Canada’s biggest city. He would re-invent civic government and watch every dollar, apply common-sense private-sector practices, and shrink Toronto’s administration down to just the right size.

In practice, Rob Ford has done none of this since his election in 2010, but his fervent supporters were so enamored with the idea of Rob Ford that they became complicit in covering up for real-life-Rob-Ford’s failures.

But the flesh-and-blood Rob Ford never was the Rob Ford of the conservative imagination.

His fans will rhyme off a list of his accomplishments, which on inspection are not really all that spectacular. He contracted our garbage collection in a city that already had private trash collection. He negotiated a labour deal with a union that agreed in advance to a wage freeze.

Ford uses voodoo math to insist that he has saved a billion tax dollars. In fact, his most recent budget was $200-million larger than the previous mayor’s last budget. That beats inflation, and is worthy of praise on that basis, but it’s not transformational government.

The streets of Toronto are no cleaner and no less congested. Services and employees that should have been shed are still on the books. There has been no streamlining, and the billions in efficiencies promised by the mayor during his campaign have never materialized.

On 2013-11-07 16:22, nause wrote:
That video is a breach of privacy. Whoever leaked it to the media should be ashamed of themselves.

On 2013-11-07 16:22, nause wrote:
That video is a breach of privacy. Whoever leaked it to the media should be ashamed of themselves.

On 2013-11-06 11:12, frankvomit wrote:
... I don't think you could remain as over weight as rob ford and have a crack ha bit at the same time. ...

On 2013-11-13 11:51, Al Angello wrote:
The Toronto city council is trying to throw mayor Ford out of office today because 75% of the Toronto citizens are ashamed of him.