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Ah, poor Jimmy....
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Ah, poor Jimmy....
Thinker
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And then he hurt his toe, which according to Dug was going to surgically addressed after the election....
BUT.... not before he entered the race at the playground with "I am just like you" Stintz
So how did that all work out?
EagleEye
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That is one of the best pictures ever! Singin' Jimmy ended up ditching Rob after he was banned from city hall, something he blamed on Doug, and threw his support behind Olivia.
Videodrome
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Whatever happened to Jimmy? Is John Tory too boring for him?
Thinker
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OK Honesty & Tory! (giggle worthy) Well now look at the latest on the one stop boondoggle subway.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/com...yor-john-tory-to-be-honest-about-transit.html
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/com...yor-john-tory-to-be-honest-about-transit.html
riffraff
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Its a "faith-based" subway, ya just gotta believe the Great White Hope on this, just like on carding. As a businessman he knows what "immigrants" in priority neighbourhoods need. Just like his predecessor.
Happy Canada Day Scarborough!
Happy Canada Day Scarborough!
adma
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In the neverending game of "seeking suspected Ford connections", the Hickory Drive house explosion in Mississauga has left me wondering about Robert Nadler--both as one you can picture as a Kathy/Randy hanger-on c1979-80, and as a hypothetical 905-dwelling "Centennial Park Ford National" in more recent times; for all I know, maybe he was on the Deco man-cave howler-monkey Rolodex. Far-fetched or not, such speculation isn't necessarily hard to come by...
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...foul-play-in-mississauga-house-explosion.html
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/20...foul-play-in-mississauga-house-explosion.html
aghost
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I'm surprised IHTWORF hasn't had a collective aneurysm at the sight of Tory, Wynne AND Trudeau marching in the parade.
Roy's Square
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That's because deep down they know that the new Mayor of Heaven is probably right now blowing off the Pride Parade in Heaven and enjoying the long weekend in his Heaven cottage. Because it is Heaven, after all.
Videodrome
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My feelings about Wynne aside, it was great to see all three levels of government present at Pride.
Jimmi T
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Looks like the annual Pride controversy will go from Ford skipping it and threats to defund over QuAIA participation to defunding over Black Lives Matter and excluding the police float.
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W. K. Lis
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As I expected it, agreements made under duress are void. Equivalent to a 2-year's temper tantrum.
From link:
Banning police from parade not my call, Pride exec says
List of demands from Black Lives Matter was only signed to end blockade of parade, but “I’m not deciding what’s in the parade,” says Mathieu Chantelois.
From link:
Banning police from parade not my call, Pride exec says
List of demands from Black Lives Matter was only signed to end blockade of parade, but “I’m not deciding what’s in the parade,” says Mathieu Chantelois.
JWBF
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riffraff
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I find it very telling that there's been a stronger reaction to this action by BLM than to the Mayor playing the "race card" in his defence of his Scarborough Town Centre Express subway in an op-ed a week ago.
Its not the 60s any more and BLM has not employed violence, but their resistence has not been passive either. Institutional racism whether within the police or so-called community organizations has to be called out to be addressed openly. BLM has been very successful in a short time in bringing attention to systemic racism as activists, not passivists still trying to change the system behind closed doors.
And anyway, I think there's a law against criticizing parade apparel at Pride. Was Beyoncé a thug at the Superbowl? A lot of thugs, like Rob Ford, wear business suits.
Its not the 60s any more and BLM has not employed violence, but their resistence has not been passive either. Institutional racism whether within the police or so-called community organizations has to be called out to be addressed openly. BLM has been very successful in a short time in bringing attention to systemic racism as activists, not passivists still trying to change the system behind closed doors.
And anyway, I think there's a law against criticizing parade apparel at Pride. Was Beyoncé a thug at the Superbowl? A lot of thugs, like Rob Ford, wear business suits.
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sweetlou
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Pride began as a protest march - over the years it's morphed into a tourist-friendly, family-rated, fun, weekend entertainment stuffed full of corporate floats and a guaranteed winner for those who peddle hotel rooms. But it was born out of the 1981 bathhouse raids, when Toronto's finest hauled more than 300 men out of a gay bathhouse and arrested and named them in the street at a time when that ruined careers and caused public humiliation. It took 35 years for TPS to apologize.
I don't go every year but I did this time and was stunned at the hundreds of uniformed police marching in the parade representing much of southern Ontario. That in a way made me uncomfortable - no problem with LBQT cops in the parade, as welcome as anyone else, but the sheer number of cops was jarring. I'm a straight woman but the bathhouse raids sickened me and the G20 was horrific. I guess having police be included is a good thing, on balance, but I wonder if the goodwill has any bearing on the next time a black kid gets beaten up outside of the range of cameras.
At the end of the day, BLM has emerged because as a city, we still piddle around failing to address the tangible problems that our black friends and neighbours have clearly identified. Tory is a milquetoast WASP. People like Desmond Cole speak up loudly and clearly and we all go, "great guy, great writer, now where's the recipe section?" Carding hasn't gone away. So no surprise that BLM went to Pride - high visibility, great coverage, and they didn't have to vandalize or break the law. Nor did they when they camped outside TPS headquarters in winter. Good citizen protesting, good for them. So a few people didn't like having to wait an extra 30 minutes in the sun: big deal.
We could use more citizen protest. Tens of thousands in London protesting Brexit, love it. Anyone remember the Vietnam war protests, all over the world? I may be showing my age, but BLM did what is necessary. Power to the People!
I don't go every year but I did this time and was stunned at the hundreds of uniformed police marching in the parade representing much of southern Ontario. That in a way made me uncomfortable - no problem with LBQT cops in the parade, as welcome as anyone else, but the sheer number of cops was jarring. I'm a straight woman but the bathhouse raids sickened me and the G20 was horrific. I guess having police be included is a good thing, on balance, but I wonder if the goodwill has any bearing on the next time a black kid gets beaten up outside of the range of cameras.
At the end of the day, BLM has emerged because as a city, we still piddle around failing to address the tangible problems that our black friends and neighbours have clearly identified. Tory is a milquetoast WASP. People like Desmond Cole speak up loudly and clearly and we all go, "great guy, great writer, now where's the recipe section?" Carding hasn't gone away. So no surprise that BLM went to Pride - high visibility, great coverage, and they didn't have to vandalize or break the law. Nor did they when they camped outside TPS headquarters in winter. Good citizen protesting, good for them. So a few people didn't like having to wait an extra 30 minutes in the sun: big deal.
We could use more citizen protest. Tens of thousands in London protesting Brexit, love it. Anyone remember the Vietnam war protests, all over the world? I may be showing my age, but BLM did what is necessary. Power to the People!
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