Rob Ford's Toronto

[basic]

OK, I am just looking for clarification.

Do we know for sure that Karla Ford's (nee Middlebrook) mother, Julie Middlebrook's (nee Fenwick) mother and father were in fact Russian Orthodox (aka Catholic), not Jewish?

 

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Shawn Jeffords @Shawn_Jeffords
Question now on racism, sexism and homophobia. What steps will you take to ensure such offensive language is not tolerated? #TOpoli

Let's see how Doug answers this.

 

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Jennifer Pagliaro @jpags
Ford: "Calling me a racist is not racist? C'mon."

Jennifer Pagliaro @jpags
Ford demands apology from Tory. Chow says hateful comments should not be tolerated, her voice raising.

 

[JGHali]

Olivia's doing really well with this question. Doug's answers were barely grammatical.

 

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Shawn Jeffords @Shawn_Jeffords
Ford says if he called anyone a racist or homophobic, he probably wouldn't be sitting there. Demands apology from Tory. #TOpoli

Jennifer Pagliaro @jpags
Ford brings up Tory denouncing his comments about Jewish people from last night. "Doug Ford is not a racist," Doug Ford says about himself.

Nice way to ruin an answer!

 

[JGHali]

What is with the third person speak? It's so bizarre. Jimmy is angry!!

 

[Kelly Girl]

Getting in touch with his new found heritage.

[video=youtube;iCFBef0NhDY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCFBef0NhDY[/video]

Kelly Girl

 

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Shawn Jeffords @Shawn_Jeffords
Tory says Ford had chance to apologize and didn't. Crowd cheers. #TOpoli

The sad part is that they cheered Doug's lame answer too...

 

[falrbod]

Not Jewish!

Just quoting myself to get this into a better sequence. (The problem with ETA is falling behind in the meantime.)

This is the marriage listing of Karla Middlebrook Ford's maternal grandparents.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/278N-J4M

John Arenowitz (Arenowicz), son of Georgi Arenowitz and Justina, marrying Eleonora Marko, daughter of Nekolaj (Nicholai) Marko and Slikeria Percz.

Based on these names (Justina, Nicholai, George, etc.) they were clearly Polish Catholics or some other Slavic Catholics.

You're right that this findagrave page doesn't list their daughter Julie - but I've had a lot of experience with them, and these pages don't always list all the children. It's very typical. As Catholics, this family clearly had a lot of children, and only two were put up by whoever edited this findagrave page.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=125398327

BTW, the cemetery, Prospect Cemetery, is not Jewish.

 

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Doug has indeed vowed to skip any debates with Goldkind.

Ford went on to promise that he won’t take part in any further debates that include Goldkind.

 

[ParkdalePetunia]

Things that make you go hmmm...

Joe Wormington ‏@joe_wormington · 3h2 hours ago
@siomo Watch for the true story in my column tomorrow, #TOpoli Doug Jr doesn't want to admit it...he was barmitvahed 40 years ago, in Isreal

Parody account.

 

[tiffer24]

Why do I get the feeling we're all trapped inside an episode of "All in the Family" for the next three weeks with Ford playing Archie and Tory in the role of Meathead...

 

[Scarberian]

But what really gets my shorts burning is the principal behind the play. That zombie, Paul Godfrey. Former Metro Chair (sorry to offend your delicate sensibilities, Casita, but not all Chairs were noble people.) The very guy who got Skydome, sorry...er... Roger's Centre...rammed through and built for over half a $Bil. Then bought it back for $25 Million? This ghoul has had more lives than Dracula. Nobody can put a stake that sticks in his dark heart. His sticky fingers have been in so many pies that only a select few have shared

I hear ya. While I don't hate Skydome itself, aside from the overpriced food and drinks , how it was finagled into being reeks of something not quite right.

Toronto's problems are just so much wider than Cracky The Mayor or his Cro-Mag Torchbearer Bro. The rot goes way long, way back and way deep.

Agreed.

CBC:

http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/ID/2462107984/

Doug apparently thinks Morningside isn't that far from McCowan.

Doug knows about Scarborough as much as he knows about Judaism. Bupkus. Ahahahaha, Doug is now advocating a strong mayoral system. Cites NY, Chicago. Doug, please go to Chicago pronto if you love it there so much, and stay go.

 

[JGHali]

If Rob and Doug got 98% of their agenda passed, why would a "strong mayor" system have helped?

 

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"Keeshka? Now I know what to name my next daughter!"