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Everybody in the city who pays remote attention has the hockey cards. They know the basic stats of these players. The assistant captain is a dick with an established animosity towards one of his prime postings (WT). The budget chief is a cipher. The ref is…well…Frances Nunziata. And then...

It was happening right outside my office window. It was a cavalcade of cuckoo. Bad craziness.

Wasn't Brendan Croskerry the Nova Scotia guitar slinger with no other apparent skills who was brought on staff to...ummm...do...err....stuff that Directors Of Logistics can't? And then, IIRC, went on to be part of something called Ossington Creative or some such? It really is like waking from...

I like Carlaw. Fond memories of pre-family life and attendant slatternly ways. Years ago there was a cinematic special-effects shop called Laird (run by a guy named Laird. Just Laird.) and every year there was a party in their warehouse space. And it may have been the best fucking party of the...

So, first off, full disclosure: I am working on a doc project about Don Mills. So any discussion may be considered for use therein, upon proper consultation with the source thereof. I used to live there many, many years ago. (Parents dragged us kicking and screaming downtown in the mid/late...

Little known fact: W. Hung sang at exactly the pitch in which the song was recorded. Not that he did it well. And his presentation was awkward to be sure. But he matched Ricky Martin on pitch. And, by gawd, there is zero connection to Rob or Doug Ford beyond the inexplicable phenomenon of...

Just want to point out, nowhere in this hierarchy do the words "Director Of Logistics" appear.

As for streetscape, Queen is basically Queen from Roncesvalles to Neville Park, with the obvious exceptions. More 4-5 storey stuff in the west with much more 2-storey stuff in the East. There is a general density factor in the West on the main E-W streets, though, through St. Clair and even...

As for the last sentence, they seem to be filling in nicely at a reasonable pace. Regarding the west-end, though, it's been a slow grind ever west to some nebulous end at (maybe) High Park in the South and BWV/Junction as the 'Gateway to Etobicoke' in the North. I can recall, back at OCA...

So, for the PCPO it might be a matter of: "I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in." -Lyndon Baines Johnson

Rob Ford parallels some myth that someone oughta put their finger on. Strangely enough, he looks like more of a big-city mayor in the latter pic. Like Kingpin, as someone posted previously. He will haunt us still. And always. Fordian political style has irrevocably changed this city's politics...

Suffice to say, this last four years in municipal politics have been an extremely steep learning curve for many. Hopefully it'll take.

Then, when all that's done, maybe they can bring in David Miller and his broom. Just for a day

Yeah. some oddness in the array for sure. That said, the editorial choice was for oddness, and other-ness, etc. But it is Now, so what else are you gonna get. It's an insufferable read at best (Even the music coverage has gone way downhill). Don't want to buck the orthodoxy, but it was kind of...

Sincerely hope someone from the Tory camp is looking at this thread if only to take this particular post to heart and mind.

Here's 2¢ on Doug and OPCs. Yes, he has shown formidable strength in pockets of Toronto that are Fort Liberal at the P and F level. And that may be tempting. But let's not forget who ran Tory's campaign. After the transition, Nicky K will likely head on upstream. He and Ciano will likely get...

Thanks for putting that into historical perspective. Feel slightly better about the whole thing now. A defeat is a defeat is a defeat. And this was, as you've shown, a worse defeat than many others in our history. Perhaps people's expectations were just that much lower having borne witness to...

Thanks for the clarification. So is Fred okay? 'Cause we're sorta, kinda lookin' at the Hammer as the eventual end point of Queen West. The cheapness we bought into in Parkdale at the turn of the millenium is looking like a tempting sale right now.

Don't want to freak anyone out or harsh the small buzz of relief that's wafting over the city, but had to point out that in Hamilton, Eisenberger (sp?) was mayor. got turfed in 2010, sat on council instead, and is now mayor again. So assuming Councillor Ford survives the next four years....

The effects of Rob Ford are, unfortunately, here to stay. He and Doug have laid down the blueprint for winning by dividing and exercising an ugly politics like the city has never seen. And though Doug didn't win tonight, those tactics could very well succeed again. If not for them, then some...