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Robert Fulford: Calling alcoholism a ‘disease’ lets Rob Ford off the hook
The most famous Canadian addict since Sir John A. Macdonald has returned to Toronto from his rehabilitation centre. Rob Ford is battling publicly against his condition while planning to persuade the...
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Robyn Urback: Hey, shirtless Rob Ford protesters — you’re not helping
The genius of the original “shirtless jogger” confrontation, in which an East York man out for a run come across the mayor and treated him to a verbal lashing, was the impression it left after it was...
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Robyn Urback: Olivia Chow’s plan to ban handguns is a blatant, hackneyed...
The frustrating thing about mayoral candidate Olivia Chow’s call for a handgun ban in the City of Toronto is not that it almost certainly won’t happen, or that it wouldn’t make any measurable...
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Matt Gurney: Exposing the silly math behind Chow’s feel-good handgun ban
Olivia Chow, former federal NDP MP and now a candidate for mayor of Toronto, wants to reduce gun crime in the city. Fair enough. It’s hard to imagine that anyone wouldn’t. But one of the ways she wants...
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Tasha Kheiriddin: The fists will fly in Toronto
It’s getting ugly, folks. That pretty much sums up this week’s mayoral debate, and particularly the shenanigans outside it, when incumbent Mayor Rob Ford rejoined his fellow candidates on the campaign...
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Jonathan Kay: Could a Mayor John Tory build SmartTrack and save Toronto?
A few weeks ago, during lunch with a long-shot Toronto mayoral hopeful (who shall remain unnamed), I asked why the candidate’s poll numbers were so low. “It’s tough,” came the reply. “I’m battling...
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Robyn Urback: Toronto mayoral candidates to waste our time — and their own —...
Back in March, Toronto City Council hosted a marathon meeting about a plan to expand Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. It was one year after Porter Airlines first announced its island airport...
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Matt Gurney: Toronto’s hopelessly helpless transit system justifies our cynicism
In Thursday’s National Post, my colleague Chris Selley noted, rightly, that “Torontonians of all political stripes and worldview are prone fits of flamboyant, armchair-expert defeatism, cynicism and...
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Rex Murphy: As Olivia Chow flounders, Rob Ford’s fans show us that the common...
It’s a pleasant thing to wake up in Toronto and read, in one of the city’s lesser organs, that (once again) “Toronto’s Mayor Ford has been cleared by the city’s integrity commissioner.” I don’t think...
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Matt Gurney: Chow campaign comes back down to reality
In Saturday’s National Post, my friend Rex Murphy wrote about the seeming resurgence in the electoral chances of incumbent Toronto mayor Rob Ford. He noted (correctly) that Ford is constantly...
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Robyn Urback: Toronto’s five worst election campaign proposals
There’s a month an a half to go before voting in Toronto’s municipal election and voters have been subject to an onslaught of new ideas. Some have been fantastic; most notably, Olivia Chow’s proposal...
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Robyn Urback: Why Doug Ford is no Rob Ford
An intangible air of ordinariness, ironically, has carried mayor Rob Ford through his many extraordinary challenges. His bumbling gaffes along and more egregious episodes of misconduct have been...
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Robyn Urback: Welcome to Toronto’s mayoral debates, where everything’s made...
Tuesday evening’s mayoral debate in Toronto was an excruciating hodgepodge of late ‘90s unscripted television. The spectators — straight from the bowels of Jerry Springer’s late-night audience — hooted...
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Allan Levine: Never mind Ford Nation. Hogtown has a long history of drunks,...
Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who is now recovering from cancer and has withdrawn from this month’s mayoral election, has produced his share of shenanigans over the past four years. But he is hardly alone:...
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Robyn Urback: The best and worst of the Olivia Chow campaign, in a day
Over the course of about two hours on Monday, Olivia Chow paraded the very best and the very worst of her campaign to become mayor. On the low end was a stunt Chow pulled at Monday’s debate on the arts...
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Stephen Marche: Toronto the nasty
Earlier in Toronto’s election season, back in July, Mayor Rob Ford, fresh out of rehab, went glad-handing along a Canada Day parade route. The crowd heckled and booed, and a man who was jogging by...
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Matt Gurney: Good luck to the councillor for Ward 2
As Sunday became Monday in that small slice of Twitter taken over by Toronto politics, you could hear the virtual champagne corks popping. Some of the tweets were funny, some were just bitter, but they...
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Rob Ford had back-up plan for Doug to run for mayor in case he 'fell off the...
There had been a contingency plan in place for Doug Ford to replace his brother Rob as a candidate in the race for Toronto’s mayor long before Friday’s shock switch, according to the Fords’ longtime...
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'Toronto needs Doug Ford': Rob kicks off brother's campaign in audio...
The voice, raspy but recognizable, reached out from the ether and succeeded in once again turning heads. Hours before starting two rounds of chemotherapy on Thursday, Mayor Rob Ford released a recorded...
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Doug Ford proposes new subway station at 'Done Mills' in error-riddled...
Mayoral candidate Doug Ford has revealed his transit plan for Toronto, and it’s exactly the same as the one his brother released earlier this month, except for the addition of a few spelling mistakes....
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