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About four years ago, I had a pretty good idea. I wanted to create Toronto-centric Valentine's Day cards featuring local prominent figures, past and present. Here are the few I threw together. Feel free to take this torch and run with it. We've still got time.
I've mentioned I have a Toronto City Hall informant. I call him / her Cardinal. Cardinal just sent me an email following the city's deal reached with CUPE local 416 to avert a strike. Here's Cardinal's email, in its entirety. just so you and your blog followers know.... ford claims that
It's all about subways. Just ask our mayor Rob Ford. From the National Post: The power struggle over what transit to build in Toronto continues at City Hall, with Mayor Rob Ford telling reporters, at his weekly weigh-in: “It’s all about subways.” An excerpt of the scrum follows.Reporter:
I'm about to head out to see American Idiot, so I checked the weather via my Ubuntu Linux desktop. Here's what I saw: Freezing fog? What the hell is freezing fog? According to the National Weather Service: Freezing fog occurs when the water droplets that the fog is composed of
Over on Reddit there was a discussion about people's best Toronto hacks. Basically, any hacks for saving time, money or effort in Toronto. Here's a few of the hacks posted there. You can get a dozen free bagels on your birthday at What a BagelThere's a change machine at the
The city had all those love padlocks removed from Toronto’s Humber Bridge yesterday. 40 or so of these symbols of eternal love got snipped with only a couple remaining. This photo from the Toronto Star shows one of the survivors. It was simply too big for the clippers. Moral
So this just happened... The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan has sold its 79.53 per cent stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment to Rogers Communications and BCE for more than $1.2 billion. BCE is fancy talk for Bell. That's right, Bell and Rogers now each own 37.5%
I have one more photoshopped Rob Ford football kick that I'd like to share. This was emailed to me by Patrick Corrigan, editorial cartoonist for the Toronto Star. I agree with Torstar chairman John Honderich when he says the blatant attempt by the mayor to block the flow of public
Prior to the Metro Bowl at the stadium formerly known as Skydome, Rob Ford kicked things off... literally. Here's the picture from the Toronto Star. Over on Reddit, the redditors had some fun photoshopping Rob Ford all over the place. It sort of became a thing, so I thought I'd
Toronto city council has voted in favour of banning the possession and consumption of shark fins. The final vote was 38-4, with only these four voting against the ban: Rob FordGiorgio MammolitiDoug HolydayDavid ShinerIf you're unsure what the shark fin controversy is about, check out this video of Gordon Ramsay
Photographer Ryan Emond calls this time-lapse video "Toronto Tempo". In his words: I’ve pieced together thousands of photos that I think capture Toronto’s beautiful skyline, and the essence of the lively downtown core. All but one of the scenes in this time-lapse were shot between September and October
It seems appropriate that on a day when my path crossed with Wendel Clark's (more on that later), I'd be thinking about Maple Leaf Gardens. MLSE sold Maple Leaf Gardens to Loblaw in 2004, and Loblaw struck a deal with Ryerson that allowed them to share the space. Ryerson will
If you see more blurry eyed Torontonians than usual today, you can blame Nuit Blanche. That's where I was until the wee hours of the night. Tweet of the night went to @Uranowski who wrote the following: Nuit Blanche is everything Rob Ford hates: Public Art, walking and road closures
Jon Simonassi took some great shots of the thunderstorm Toronto got last week. He calls this "Lightning TO". The song is called Leg Twitch by Professor Kliq.
Our classless, short-sighted, pathetic excuse for a mayor Rob Ford has my blood boiling and gut busting again. Actually, it's not Rob Ford this time, it's his big brother Councillor Doug Ford, although I half suspect they're the same person. Dougie has a vision for our eastern waterfront, and he
Since Silverman is no longer helpful, I'm here for you. I'm here for the working man, the downtrodden, the prisoners and the hurt. This note comes from Amanda who is looking for answers. Read her story and offer her advice in the comments. I work late nights at a busy
I don't remember a figure in Toronto politics as divisive as Rob Ford. It seems you either love him or you hate him. Find me someone indifferent to Rob Ford... I dare ya. Not to paint the Ford brothers with the same brush, but what the hell. I'll do that
[via Marc Weisblott's Google+]
Remember the other day when we all talked about the heat? As usual, we were ahead of the curve. Today is the real heat. Feels like 46°C. Holy shit! I'm sure you kids are smart enough to stay indoors with the A/C. I've got a double header to
It's hot. Let's talk about it. But no complaining!
I'm not sure I miss the guy, in fact I'm fairly certain I don't, but I'm still curious... Where's Zanta these days? I haven't seen the guy or read anything about him in at least a year. Here's the doc about Zanta from Pietro Gagliano. Here's a Valentine's Day card
It's shit like this, Rob Ford. Mayor Rob Ford opposed every one of Toronto’s community grants programs at a council meeting Tuesday.The city's grants allocations for 2011 were about to sail through council without a discussion or vote when Ford rose to say he wanted to be recorded
I gave Rob Ford the benefit of the doubt all week. Surely he'd come to his senses, follow the avalanche of good advice he received from Toronto mayors past, and march in today's Pride Parade. He didn't. Mayor Rob Ford successfully boycotted Pride Week, avoiding all 10 days of events.
I've written about the High Park Zoo before. If you're looking for deer, llama, various sheep and goats, yaks, bisons, peacocks and more, why drive all the way to the Meadowvale Road and 401 and spend a fortune? The kids and I were checking out the aforementioned deer, llama, various
I used to watch a little call-in sports show on Cable 10 called Let's Talk Sports. I wrote about Let's Talk Sports over six years ago if you want to read a little more about my memories of this cheesy local sports show from yesteryear. The hosts were Mike Wilner
