There you go, admitting you're a nation of weak kneed quitters, is the first step in healing.
Now work on it.
No it isn't.
If that were true, your nazi army boys would have resigned.
Toronto Police obtain crack video of Ford
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Now work on it.
If that were true, your nazi army boys would have resigned.
You'd be able to do the same soon about your nation, when the pressure mounts on Ford and he finally sees the light and resigns.
Not when he stays in the office he has so greatly disgraced he hasn't.
And, even more sickening, is the fact that he is running for RE-ELECTION next year!
If London Mayor Boris Johnson had turned out to be a crack-addicted alcoholic he would have been turfed out long ago. Londoners wouldn't have wanted such a man running their great city. He would have been hanged from the rafters.
Yet this happens in Toronto and not only is the mayor still in office but he is running for RE-ELECTION. You are a funny lot you Canadians. I know you lot like your crack addicts and your dope smokers, but this just takes the mick. You actually want them running your cities.
Toronto’s crack-smoking leader
What to do with a drunken mayor?
Rob Ford confesses to all manner of vices, but will not resign
Toronto’s crack-smoking leader: What to do with a drunken mayor? | The Economist
Look, I already admitted I understand you like weak kneed quitters. You think cowardice is hounarable.
I get it, it explains why and how the Briddish Empire fell so far, so fast and has become a defacto Muslim state. It also explains your love of the rainbow poppy.
I'd feel sad for you if it wasn't your own fault.
How the **** does a thread about the mayor of Toronto, Ontario, Canada morph into yet another discussion about Britain?
At this point, we might as well just rename the entire forum.
At this point, we might as well just rename the entire forum.
Only someone who is totally F**kin' colour blind would think so. "Some people talk because they have something to say while others talk because they have to say something"
Difference being Ford has been a good mayor and to the best of our knowledge has not abused his position or let his personal life interfere with running the city. Or even done anything illegal. Smoking crack isn't really a crime but possession is.
Debunking Ford Nation’s favourite budget chart | Metro
Since amalgamation, the part of the budget paid for with property taxes has increased from $2.5 billion to $3.7 billion. That represents an increase of about 2.6 per cent per year, which is pretty darn close to matching the rate of inflation.
Under Miller, the average increase was about 3.1 per cent per year. Under Ford, that increase has been a bit smaller. He’s closely kept to the pattern set by Mayor Mel Lastman in his first term, with below-inflation increases that will probably have to be made up for with larger increases over the next decade. You can’t fight inflation for long.
But that’s just nerdy detail. The larger point of this graph should be clear. Increases to the net operating budget have been kept small for all of amalgamated Toronto’s history. And since the gross operating budget is at best a misleading metric, the whole narrative of out-of-control spending at City Hall starts to fall apart.
And now for the real thing (nobody tell the usual suspects who don't like facts)
Since amalgamation, the part of the budget paid for with property taxes has increased from $2.5 billion to $3.7 billion. That represents an increase of about 2.6 per cent per year, which is pretty darn close to matching the rate of inflation.
Under Miller, the average increase was about 3.1 per cent per year. Under Ford, that increase has been a bit smaller. He’s closely kept to the pattern set by Mayor Mel Lastman in his first term, with below-inflation increases that will probably have to be made up for with larger increases over the next decade. You can’t fight inflation for long.
But that’s just nerdy detail. The larger point of this graph should be clear. Increases to the net operating budget have been kept small for all of amalgamated Toronto’s history. And since the gross operating budget is at best a misleading metric, the whole narrative of out-of-control spending at City Hall starts to fall apart.
And now for the real thing (nobody tell the usual suspects who don't like facts)
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Rex Murphy: An early, bitter Christmas for the Ford-haters
Rex Murphy: An early, bitter Christmas for the Ford-haters | National Post
Rex Murphy: An early, bitter Christmas for the Ford-haters | National Post
Drunken Rob Ford video sparks debate on whether private recordings are good for public life
“I’m actually thrilled that we have the technology to hold public figures accountable,” said Karen Keskinen, public relations professor at Ottawa’s Carleton University, speaking of the Ford video, in which, he admitted later, he was inebriated. “What I’m excited about is that it holds a public figure accountable by using a technology to be fully transparent.
“So the way that [he is] as a person, as a boss, as a man in his home, is also the man that we’re electing. … It shows the character of the man.”
Maybe it will shift our notions of what is public and what is private
Public figures should be held accountable for how they act and treat people in private, she said. “Both our public lives and our private lives are in the mix when we become a public figure.”
“I’m actually thrilled that we have the technology to hold public figures accountable,” said Karen Keskinen, public relations professor at Ottawa’s Carleton University, speaking of the Ford video, in which, he admitted later, he was inebriated. “What I’m excited about is that it holds a public figure accountable by using a technology to be fully transparent.
“So the way that [he is] as a person, as a boss, as a man in his home, is also the man that we’re electing. … It shows the character of the man.”
Maybe it will shift our notions of what is public and what is private
Public figures should be held accountable for how they act and treat people in private, she said. “Both our public lives and our private lives are in the mix when we become a public figure.”
LOLz, you have to love the baffle gab.
Keep stretching it, one day you might find someone that doesn't know how to read and decipher the manure your sources layer on the truth, lolz.
You didn't have to admit you don't like facts, we already knew.
Due largely to unprecedented media coverage.
LMAO!!! Carleton U!!!???
And just so you don't go crying that I just dissed your source, lolz, Carleton U a source, lolz. Rub-n-tug...
No one, not even you made this silly argument when Der Leader was caught with his pants down, literally. In fact, you supported suing the Sun for reporting it.
Is there any wonder why you're laughed at here Flossy?
