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Jean Machine at the Eaton Centre is selling T-shirts with a picture of Rob Ford's face and the infamous line "more than enough to eat at home" as a caption.

Sandy was bigger blahblahblah. Here in Toronto, it was clear by Monday that tens of thousands of people were without power and would be for another couple days at least, that it would be very cold over the next few days and so on. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to figure out that...

So a vulnerable person is more likely to be helped in a seriously extra major crisis but in a medium crisis it's just their tough luck. Let the chips fall where they may. That's how it works? Yikes. Great society we have.

After this, maybe it is naive to expect more. Anyway, I think going forward it's best to expect a useless response, prepare to be as self-sufficient as you can, and to know your neighbours.

Sandy was bigger and destroyed more stuff - DUH. Really, do you think that if I know about Occupy Sandy I somehow don't know the extent of Sandy's damage? You totally missed my point - that it doesn't matter how big or small the event is, a person at risk is still at risk.

A person stuck in a house or apartment with no power, heat, etc, maybe with health issues or no money or whatever, who can't get their needs met on their own - it's the same difference whether they're in Far Rockaway or Scarborough. There must be at least a few thousand people in Toronto in...

I just realized that Toronto never had anything like and Occupy Sandy response. Occupy Sandy did go door-to-door, checking on people, bringing food & water, helping people get to safer locations, etc. And they still have various Sandy projects going. I wonder why nothing like that happened...

This is an excellent point. Stuff like this is why I think the ongoing outages are the smaller of two problems, the other being that this city does not have a plan for when tends of thousands of residents are without power for several days at a stretch, in winter. There is no way to guarantee...

Norm Kelly's trip was less than 24 hours though, and he was easily reachable by phone etc. Just doesn't seem like that big of a deal to me.

CityNews reported just now that 46 000 homes are still without power. 700 people in one TCHC building alone are still without power, freezing in their apartments, which is really indefensible. Couldn't more warming centres be opened up, in reasonable proximity to TCHC buildings? It seems...

The explanation I've most often heard for why young white males are attracted to these movements is that they feel the most ripped off by society. They were raised - by the culture, not necessarily their parents - to expect to sail into good jobs and high status. But the whole economic trend...

The whole Alex Jones scene is fascinating to me. I check his YouTube channel every so often just to see what the current rant/outrage is and what angle has been taken on a recent event. It's informative, in its way - useful for understanding how a segment of the population views the world...

Several years ago I had a conversation with a municipal emergency planning person, who at the time was also taking a course in emergency planning, so presumably had up-to-date ideas and info. The conversation was VERY revealing. Her idea was that people with resources, friends, family, etc...

Given the how the ice storm and the heavy rains & flooding back in July (and the horror shows of Sandy and Katrina) have been handled, I think that is the real lesson: expect a 3rd rate response, assume you are on your own. The emergency-preparedness info does say to be always be prepared to...

Check out Nenshi at 5am one morning during the flood crisis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRRTr15w6_0#t=74 I'm off to scream into a pillow...

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Me too. However, the 1960s high-rise building that I live in now was set up for metering earlier this year, and all new tenants will have to pay for electricity.

So you used to deal drugs and that's how you know drug dealers. Why didn't you just say so?

It was clarified several pages ago that this discussion was NOT about small-time cannabis dealers, but higher-level dealers of more serious drugs. E.g. crack. So, organized crime is almost certainly involved in those cases, and apparently several UTers are OK with that. (Possibly also the...

Pharmacists and chemists are not "drug dealers" in the usual sense that has been used on this thread the whole time, and you know it, and that is not what you meant with the remark that set off this discussion. Why would a pharmacist be paranoid about being secretly recorded?