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Exciting Morning at City Hall
Feb 10th
When I wrote yesterday that I hoped to see a headline announcing Adam Giambrone’s quitting of the mayoral race, I didn’t expect to see it so soon.
Adam Giambrone quits Toronto Mayoral race
Exciting Evenings at City Hall
Feb 9th
A few weeks ago Adam Giambrone posted a YouTube video announcing that he’s ready to be the mayor of Toronto. Last week, he filed his candidacy papers and held a party with supporters. Yesterday, his political career (and mayoral aspirations) took a hit when The Star published a story in which a 20-year-old woman claimed she had a year-long affair with Giambrone.
To back up her claims, she showed the paper text and Facebook messages purportedly from Giambrone. Kristen Lucas, the young woman, alleges that Giambrone told her that he lived with his brother, all the while living with his partner, Sarah McQuarrie.
Giambrone claims that the relationship consisted only of public meetings and text messages. Lucas says that it went beyond that as they had sex over the course of the year, sometimes on his couch in his office at City Hall.
Toronto, the Doomed
Feb 18th
Everyone I know is budgeting, tightening their spending and being frugal. I know friends who have decided not to vacation this year. Others are working closely with financial advisors to make sure they are making sound investments. I don’t know of anyone in my extended group of friends (and family) who is spending freely. Why then, are the councillors appointed to run the City of Toronto spending and budgeting as if we weren’t deeply enveloped in a global recession?
The City’s $8.7 million budget was unveiled yesterday to the council. What first alarmed me about the budget was the city’s plans to hire about 1,000 new staff and that $8.5 million was set aside for merit pay for non-unionized city hall staff. Is this the City’s idea of fiscal prudence?
Proroguing the Perogies
Dec 4th
So Parliament has been prorogued until January 26 (which happens to be the day before a certain blogger’s birthday). I don’t know about anyone else, but this who proproguing business sounds a lot like perogies. Wouldn’t it be something if it turned out this was all a ruse? Think about it, none of the party leaders know what the hell they’re doing on a good day. And in the midst of a global recession and the daily reports of the market’s (and our loonie) plunging, they’re all probably shaking in their boots. (Especially that Dion fellow.)
I bet all four leaders are sitting in Stevie’s living room right now enjoying some perogies with a glass of wine and breathing a sigh of relief. “Thank God we’ve bought ourselves some time!” Layton’s probably saying.
I Still Fucking Hate Stephen Harper
Jan 26th
Well, it’s happened; for some reason Canadians have decided to have the Conservative’s lead the government. When it came down to it, we weren’t left with a choice; it was either Harper’s Conservatives or the Lying Liberals. For me – and many others – it was a choice between picking the lesser of the two evils. I guess the only positive thing that can be taken away from this is that it’s a minority government, so Harper won’t be able to get too drastic. It says a lot though, when the major cities in the country (Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver) absolutely rejected the Conservative candidates. Why the rest of the country didn’t follow suit is beyond me.
Of all of the newspaper pages covering the election the following morning, this one caught my attention. It looks like Harper’s getting into full swing of being head Furher:
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