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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Toronto PSA: Oh yeah, there's an election coming up!
I can't believe I haven't posted on this yet, but I have to admit I haven't been following very closely. I only remembered the other night when I found out that Binky the Clown was also running, instead of the drag queen from years past. Yes folks, this is Toronto.
So here's the deal: We have to get rid of Mayor David Miller. Not just because he is a bloody awful NDP socialist nightmare (and pal of Peggy Nash), but because if you live in High Park like I do, you've seen the sonofabitch running by in spandex. And that, my friends, is the real reason I need to be medicated. In fact, I ought to be billing his office for the prescriptions. Miller. In spandex. In our streets. In our city. I am not making this up.
Who are we going to choose?
Binky? Uh, I mean, Stephen LeDrew? I would be willing to have this man as mayor for the sole reason that I doubt he would ever wear spandex. And because he's quirky. Toronto needs quirky, even if it is from a Liberal. He has sterling experience, as former president of the Liberal Party. His website, on the other hand, leaves a lot to be desired. There is no real platform to speak of, although I believe he's against the St. Clair streetcar right of way. But if you have enough time, (which most municipal voters, myself included, do not) feel free to watch the videos on his site. I'm sure there's something worthwhile there - though he should have just put up some quick text.
Or Jane Pitfield (who would be my choice)? Pitfield (the most photogenic of the three) is currently City Councillor for East York. Her website says she kibbutzed when she was in university. In Jew-hating toronto, that might work against her, but who knows? Her campaign office is in my neighborhood, so I may take a wander down there and try to get a quote or two from the lady. So far all I really know about her is that she is to the right of Miller, but really, Che Guevera would have been to the right of Miller. Also, she voted against pay increases for herself and fellow city councillors. Obviously, she was outnumbered on that vote. Let's hope she's not outnumbered in the election.
And that leaves the worst for last. David "I love marching in the Pride Parade" Miller. Miller is campaigning on revitalization of the Waterfront (as my pal Alison would say "That old chestnut!"). Remember, this is the same mayor who should have been proud to have last year's Miss Universe Natalie Glebova, a fellow Torontonian, attend the Tastes of Thailand Festival at Nathan Phillips Square, but she wasn't permitted to dress in her Miss Universe tiara and sash, because "beauty pageants are degrading to women." However he marches in the Pride Parade, billed as a "family event," where there is plenty of cock sheathed in little more than a Prince Albert and a cockring on display. Nice. Remember, people: Spandex!
So those are your main choices, Toronto. Best of luck to you. For your information, the election is on November 13, 2006. Details can be found here. To make sure you are on the voters list, call 416-338-1111. Absence from the voters list does not prevent you from voting. You will simply have to fill out a form at your polling station. (If you are deceased, you are required to vote for the Liberal...)
Edited: Dear lord, my first draft made it sound like Miller was in the Prince Albert! I did not mean that! - RG
Posted by RightGirl on October 11, 2006 in Canadian Politics | Permalink
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Vote for Jane!
Leave the PA folks, where they belong!
Posted by: Lady | 2006-10-11 6:52:32 PM
Miller for mayor.
Posted by: Stones | 2006-10-11 6:59:41 PM
If Miller is re-elected, then Toronto will have earned the title Stupidest and laziest people on the planet. He's an idiot, folks - but you're too dumb to think otherwise. Smell the air outside - it's not "global warming", it's not America's fault, and it's not Alberta's fault that your city stinks.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2006-10-11 7:35:59 PM
ZP - Toronto has already earned the title of Gayest City in the World, courtesy of San Francisco of all places. Why not Stupidest, too?
RG
Posted by: RightGirl | 2006-10-11 7:37:32 PM
RightGirl:
Can we throw in self-righteous, boring and racist too?
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2006-10-11 7:42:19 PM
We're doomed to three more years of uninspired nothingness, which is what Miller has given us for three years now. Pitfield is a decent councilor but is no leader, and hasn't been able to put together an electoral machine. LeDrew came in way too late, and looks like he just wants a job thanks to the Liberal Party implosion and a personal bankruptcy. NO ONE should allow a bankrupt to be mayor - are you kidding me?
Toronto has flatlined since Miller took over. There's really not much to say. It's embarassing, actually. All he's accomplished is getting "The Docks" night club shut down for a couple weeks last summer.
Posted by: NCF TO | 2006-10-11 8:39:04 PM
Being from Toronto, I can tell you I would vote for John Nunziata again if he ran. He's not. I'll have to vote for Le Drew. What law firm is he with again?
Posted by: Howard Roark | 2006-10-11 8:49:35 PM
David Miller is a dud. I grew up in Toronto, and though it was a pretty boring city--you know? Toronto the Good--it was at least pleasant, orderly, and law-abiding.
Now, it's seedy and falling apart at the seams, it's full of violent crime and drug dealing, right under the noses of the police. Every time I'm back there to visit with my family, I cringe at how rundown at the heels it is, how uncared for it seems, and how decrepit it feels.
David Miller is a "Rosedale/Forest Hill/High Park Socialist. The guy went to Lakefield College School, "The Grove," and yet styles himself as a man of the people. If he was, he'd be noticing the cesspool, by the smell alone, that Toronto has become, and he'd be willing to step up to the plate to DO SOMETHING about it. Half the time Torontonians don't even know where he is, just like Duh-lton McGuilty. After Jane Creba was murdered at the corner of Dundas and Yonge Streets last Christmas, Miller CALLED from his holiday, either in Europe or Mexico, 'can't remember which, and didn't return to TO to deal with the crisis until days later. Some leader.
Another tid bit: Apparently Paul Desmarais Jr. is an alumnus of Lakefield. I wonder if there's any connection between him and Miller?
Posted by: 'been around the block | 2006-10-11 9:19:53 PM
Oh, and just in case I didn't make myself perfectly clear: IF YOU LIVE IN TORONTO, DON'T VOTE FOR DAVID MILLER.
A vote for Miller is a vote for Toronto being lowered right into the sewer: glug, glug, glug...
Posted by: 'been around the block | 2006-10-11 9:22:35 PM
If the outcome of this election did not have an effect on Canada as a whole, I'd say re-elect Miller by a landslide! He's exactly what I like to see in Toronto's government - complete and total disaster.
Unfortunately it does, so for the love of pete smarten up and make a stand. If only you people could get Giuliani for 5 years. He'd turn your city around, and even get you to like it.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2006-10-11 9:24:24 PM
I have a question for you, Pike. Is the reason that you would wish upon fellow members of your species "complete and total disaster" is that you sir, are yourself, a complete and total disaster?
Posted by: Vitruvius | 2006-10-12 12:00:28 AM
Why would anyone in Canada be interested in the quest for a Mayor for Toronto. Worked and lived there for over twenty years, after Rae was elected
Premier we moved our companies out of the City which has been in serious decline ever since the Rae debacle. Our clients are advised to invest in Alberta or the State of New York. Enough about Toronto already!. MacLeod
Posted by: Jack MacLeod | 2006-10-12 6:24:38 AM
Virtruvius asked: "I have a question for you, Pike. Is the reason that you would wish upon fellow members of your species "complete and total disaster" is that you sir, are yourself, a complete and total disaster?"
Nope. Even if I was doing poorly, I'd still be in better shape than Toronto is right now. The smell of the filthy streets there can now overpower the stench of the smelly, ignorant people there.
I wish no harm to anyone of my species - but Ontario is not of my species. Ontarians are lazy, stupid, racist, and incomprehensible. I mean they actually take pride in Toronto despite creating that city's innumerable problems. It's mass delusion, and I don't want it spreading to Alberta - the land of common sense.
Posted by: Zebulon Pike | 2006-10-12 7:43:33 AM
And don't forget the bunch of Islamofacists in Toronto and neighbourhood.
I've been twice in Toronto. It did not impress me. A friend of mine living there 3 years ago moved out because she was afraid of violence and suspect attitudes.
In all logic their present mayor is representative of the population, right?
Never too late to repent people.
Posted by: Rémi Houle | 2006-10-12 7:53:51 AM
Whoa, people, let's not get carried away! Remember, God couldn't even find five righteous people in Sodom. There's AT LEAST six good guys here in TO, starting with RightGirl and myself. Please spare us from destruction.
Now, Vancouver, on the other hand...
Posted by: NCF TO | 2006-10-12 8:07:51 AM
NCF - it's true. Vancouver used to be capitalist and market driven. The dealers would sell heroin at whatever price the market was willing to bear. The users would either pay or die, or pay AND die. Then the government got involved, and it's free heroin, safe injection sites... totally messing with the open market concept and shutting down small entrepreneurs...
RG
Posted by: RightGirl | 2006-10-12 8:20:29 AM
David Miller takes millions of property taxpayer dollars and uses it to buy organizations that use the media to promote him for Mayor.
The Homeless Industry is a prime example - almost a quarter of a billion dollars a year is spent to ensure there are at least a few hundred homeless people on the streets at any given time in order to ensure Miller's crowd can always use them as an issue.
But it obviously does not cost that much to provide catered meals and clothes to street people - the money is used to organize media that is favourable to Miller because the people recieving all this money want more of it.
Posted by: Philanthropist | 2006-10-12 9:07:20 AM
Talking about street people, I wonder just how many of them are simply those hippies, who hit the streets in the sixties and seventies, and then had a couple litters, and left them on the streets as well?
OK, so not all people on the streets were born and raised there.
OK, most came from "normal" homes.
And yet if you talk to the ndpers, they NEVER come up with a solution to the problem. They continually throw money at it, without providing a mechanism whereby these people can get off drugs, trained, and out there working. They want to sugar coat the whole matter, as if all people needed was a safe injection site, and free drugs, and their good life would follow!
Well! IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!
They spend our tax payer's dollars, de stigmatizing the one issue that MUST BE STIGMATIZED! It IS bad to be a drug addict. It IS wrong to put those chemicals into your body, and destroy your mind. And it IS insane for a society to enable people to be drug addicts, with no life, for their entire lives! It IS wrong, and yet that IS what the ndpers and the Liberals have done. One day, one of those drug addicts will sue the government, for the willful ruination of their lives, when the alternative, a total drug rehabilitation program, was possible. The government under the Liberals, created the climate whereby people, who are vulnerable, are enabled to remain that way, for the rest of their lives!
This MUST stop!
Posted by: Lady | 2006-10-12 9:41:46 AM
RG/NCF,
Sadly I agree, but for every Sodom there must be a Gomorra (remember don't look back)... I live out in the Valley (Abbotsford) and try to avoid going into Vancouver unless I have to... but you have to remember that the government sponsored pushers (aka "safe" injection site) is a legacy of the decade of NDP misrule... Not that I'm claiming things are all sunshine and lollypops under the Provincial Liberals (not to be confused with the Libranos) but I do see signs of improvement...
Posted by: Daniel | 2006-10-12 11:22:07 AM
I frequent High Park too. Luckily, I have not had my eyeballs seared by a Miller-in-spandex sighting. Yikes.
Posted by: Joan Tintor | 2006-10-12 12:03:14 PM
Joan,
I still do not understand the ring thing. Then again, it does give them an excuse to sit down. Yet I thought that standing up was one of the benefits? After reading that, I sit here wishing that it was something I really did not know about.
Posted by: Lady | 2006-10-12 12:18:56 PM
Really, who in the West gives a rat's ass about the dirtbags in Toronto the City of Reprobates?
Posted by: Speller | 2006-10-12 12:26:09 PM
Speller, in case you hadn't noticed in the past two years (and yes, I know all y'all in the west have been busy), Ezra & Kevin have expanded The Shotgun to include writers from the eastern provinces as well. And if you don't subscribe to The Western Standard (which you should), you probably wouldn't have noticed that the word "western" has shrunk significantly in comparison to the word "standard". Some crazy idea they had that the east is starting to wake up, and them, as entrepreneurs, wanting to open up new market share. Imagine that!
RG
Posted by: RightGirl | 2006-10-12 12:48:48 PM
It's not a surprize RG, the Reform Party did the same thing. They built an organization purporting to represent the views and values of Westerners and then pulled the old switcheroo and the West and it's interests were minimized.
Imagine that!
As to subscibing to the wS, I'm still owed plenty of issues for my subscription to the Report/Alberta Report and as long as any Byfields are in the wS I won't be wasting my money again.
I think enough of my tax money has been spent to foist Eastern Canada's Leftist nonsense on me to last a lifetime, I really don't think the East needs any more representation on my dime.
Posted by: Speller | 2006-10-12 1:01:40 PM
Wow, this is turning out to be an interesting thread. First Pike admits he's not a human being, then Karolak does his crazy-man shtick again, and now Speller admits he's a free-rider on the resources and labour of others.
Posted by: Vitruvius | 2006-10-12 2:08:17 PM
The day isn't over Vito, next it may be you confessing you're a socially inept friendless introvert who sits home alone riddled with self doubt.
By the way, I know the wS is just a new reduced forum for the Byfields and I paid my dues plenty with their earlier publications which were big on ads and slim on content.
Even those ended owing me a huge number of issues. I perused the wS at my local library but since quality western writers like Kevin Michael Grace are gone I didn't much care for it.
In closing, as only about 20+% of the wS circulation is in Ontario and 50+% of it's writers are Easterners I don't care to subsidize Eastern mouthpieces hawking their parochial views to the West.
Posted by: Speller | 2006-10-12 2:45:35 PM
General Pike. I went outside, smells fine to me.
Posted by: Stones | 2006-10-12 2:49:31 PM
If you "Westerners" had your way we would all be saying "howdy" and "yawl". Why do you always have to complain? All regions of this country are important, but they need to be delt with differently. Besides Alberta's one of the rich ones nowadays, maybe if you stared helping out the others provinces (LIKE PAYING EQUITY PAYMENTS). There is nothing wrong with this hole "east thing. Ontarios in the middle for Christ's sake!
Posted by: Stones | 2006-10-12 2:55:58 PM
Stones, I am sure you mean to say "hole", just not with the same meaning as we Western Canadians read the word. Perhaps your meaning of "hole" is whole? And out here in the West, we refer to folks in Ontario, as Ontarians. But you can call yourselves whatever you want.
Yawl have a gay old time now, ya here!
Posted by: Lady | 2006-10-12 3:31:16 PM
Now, Stones, Ontario is not in the middle, Manitoba is, but yawl Easterners call Manitoba 'west' doncha, peckerwood. Ah knows they'at cause yawl are so arrogant yawl thinks of yerself as the center but you ain't, dude.
Us Albertans pays more money annually to be Canadians than any other province in the whooole dang country.
But that there's gonna change when Dr. Morton becomes our new head honcho.
Posted by: Speller | 2006-10-12 3:44:42 PM
Stones, if Toronto smells fine to you, then you must live in a sewer; you can't smell the difference because there isn't any...
Posted by: 'been around the block | 2006-10-12 3:54:26 PM
'been round the block, are you calling Long Branch a sewer. because if you are, when i meet you im going to kick your ass.
Posted by: Stones | 2006-10-12 4:04:08 PM
Why will it change Speller? Explain.
Posted by: Stones | 2006-10-12 4:05:02 PM
But, c'mon you guys from the West who say that everyone in Toronto can go to H*ll. There are a lot of fine people in Toronto, who'd love to see a Guiliani at the helm--and who voted for Stephen Harper.
How about a little support for the poor under-represented conservatives/Conservatives living in the cradle of decadent Leftieville TO? (My sister had the only VOTE CONSERVATIVE sign on her street.)
Toronto, after all, has become a Mecca of diversity and multiculturalism thanks to the Librano$' immigration policies of the past 35 years. I was at a conference of "moderate" Muslims a few months ago--probably about 35,000 in all, the men separated from the women and children--where JOE VOLPE was the honoured guest, and where every other guest on the podium was a Liberal, except for Jane Pitfield.
When someone commented on how hospitible our hosts were, because they were handing out free cold drinks and napkins and provided a curry lunch gratis, I figured that the "Muslim hospitality" was probably paid for by us, the taxpayers and guests. (No Christian conference, BTW, would be receiving any "multicultural" funds to help defray their costs.)
The Librano$ have been paying immigrants for years to support them at the polls. When this stops, maybe Tronna will change. It needs to.
Posted by: 'been around the block | 2006-10-12 4:05:46 PM
As far as I'm concerned the 'conservatives' in Ontario are nothing but an excuse for hoping Canada won't lose Alberta. The CPC got their 40 seats in Ontario after Ontario gave the finger to Alberta for 13 years and twarted Alberta's hope for a truly conservative party.
I doubt we'll see a CPC majority next election when we hear from all the arrogant Ontario creeps and bums here like Slider and Stones.
That wan little slap on the wrist the LPC got last spring will be punishment enough in the minds of most Ontarians and let's not forget all the Left voting welfare junkies in the Maritimes who love Alberta petro dollars$$$.
Idiots like Stones think Alberta is rich rich rich but forget that our petro dollars are from a NON-renewable resource and they are stealing our future.
Posted by: Speller | 2006-10-12 4:19:21 PM
Actually Speller, I really don't care if we lose Alberta. That's purely selfish though, as I lived there years ago and it wasn't kind to me. I still have nightmares. The real rednecks in America are much nicer than y'all out in Alberta... just sayin'.
So no, I am not some excuse for Canada to keep Alberta. I just want to make Canada sane again. Keeping Alberta is icing (not to mention a sound economic decision). So do you want to argue with me, even though we want exactly the same thing (strong Canada), just because I am from East and you from West? Might as well just be a Muslim, then...
RG
Posted by: RightGirl | 2006-10-12 4:33:52 PM
So, Speller, no sympathy?
And, Stones, go ahead. Kick my ass. If Long Branch is in Toronto--Greater Toronto, I guess--then, yeah, it stinks.
Posted by: 'been around the block | 2006-10-12 4:35:51 PM
Next time your in toronto, go to Etobicoke School of the Arts. Look me up. We'll have coffee. And talk.
Posted by: Stones | 2006-10-12 5:01:10 PM
"idiots like Stones think Alberta is rich rich rich but forget that our petro dollars are from a NON-renewable resource and they are stealing our future."
Posted by: Speller | Oct 12, 2006 4:19:21 PM
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Stop doing that! You people are always changing you postion, one minute you for oil, the your not. I HATE THE TAR SANDS!!!!! I WANT TO GIVER AMERICAN OIL COMPANYS THE BOOT! And I believe in massive investments in alternatvie energy!
Posted by: Stones | 2006-10-12 5:03:54 PM
"And, Stones, go ahead. Kick my ass. If Long Branch is in Toronto--Greater Toronto, I guess--then, yeah, it stinks."
Posted by: 'been around the block
Google earth it stupid. Its not in that "GTA" crap, its in good ol' Toronto.
Posted by: Stones | 2006-10-12 5:06:29 PM
Now that you've called me stupid, Stones, I don't think I can have coffee with you.
Posted by: 'been around the block | 2006-10-12 5:23:45 PM
See RG, you Ontarians always look through the wrong end of the telescope. You aren't an excuse for Canada to keep Alberta, you are an excuse for Albertans to keep false hope in Canada.
I'm an Alberta Nationalist, like deepblue and MarkAlta and Scott/Zeb and others, and I can't see Canada getting out of Alberta fast enough.
And I like Alberta's energy resources just fine. I make my living from them and hope to in the future. Those resources are NON-renewable oil and gas and coal. To the extent that Ontario has forced Alberta to pay for their sick little socialist experiment my future and that of my province will be darker because Ontario has done everthing in it's power to keep Alberta from expanding it's economic base and now casts it's rapacious eye toward taking our resource dollars to fund the development of technology which you hope will put us permanently out of business and leave us with nothing.
You want to destroy Alberta's economy and make Albertans pay for the destruction of their own economy.
Posted by: Speller | 2006-10-12 5:28:44 PM
One dose not go without the other.
Posted by: Stones | 2006-10-12 5:41:12 PM
Speller said this: "idiots like Stones think Alberta is rich rich rich but forget that our petro dollars are from a NON-renewable resource and they are stealing our future"
Then he said this: "And I like Alberta's energy resources just fine. I make my living from them and hope to in the future. Those resources are NON-renewable oil and gas and coal. To the extent that Ontario has forced Alberta to pay for their sick little socialist experiment my future and that of my province will be darker because Ontario has done everthing in it's power to keep Alberta from expanding it's economic base and now casts it's rapacious eye toward taking our resource dollars to fund the development of technology which you hope will put us permanently out of business and leave us with nothing.
You want to destroy Alberta's economy and make Albertans pay for the destruction of their own economy."
Thats a complete about face!
Posted by: Stones | 2006-10-12 5:44:47 PM
i live an hour or so from the peoples republic of toronto, which of course is the center of the universe. however if i did live there, i think i would vote for elmo the gay islamic goat.
Posted by: john a. | 2006-10-12 6:18:34 PM
john a. you are a horrible, horrible person.
Posted by: Stones | 2006-10-12 8:04:25 PM
john a. I mean you make Communists and the Nazis look good. You are a down right evil, evil, man. If you have kids, I hope custody is given to childrens aid, because you are raising the devils brood.
Posted by: Stones | 2006-10-12 8:12:14 PM
I don't know where you guys get this socialist hogwash from. Miller started on his road to the mayor's office by eliminating corruption and waste.Remember that the previous administration were the ones who paid 5,000$ a piece to RENT 1,000$ computers, and that was under Mel Lastman, who never met a Tory whose boots he wasn't willing to lick. Our wonderful conservative mayor Mel also greenlighted a subway line to nowhere. Why? To pay back tory cronies who had purchased land adjacent to where the stops would be.
Fighting that useless airport is good BUSINESS. We've pissed hundred of millions of $s down that rabbit hole since WWII, and nobody WANTS to use that stupid airport
Been round the block: if you knew anything about Miller, you'd know that his mother worked two, and later three menial jobs to put him through Lakefield and Harvard, even though he insisted that the family couldn't afford it.
That still wasn't enough to cover the Harvard tuition, so he made up the difference, by cleaning the toilets of the rich kids there, basically by hiring himself out as a maid, while simultaneously graduating magna cum laude
That's called DRIVE.
And all i know is that when Mel was mayor, crumbling sidewalks were being patched with tar, now they're being repaired with SIDEWALK again. Litter is down, and this year so is crime. Not to mention that Calgary, with half our population, has a greater total debt (about 500Million$). How did you manage that with 1.25 a litre gas?
Who is the wastrel and who is efficiently running their government like a business again?
And as for your idiotic arguemts, rightgirl, did you do any research before knocking out this bilge? I have yet to notice a statistic or concrete example in your brainless screed
Posted by: munkypants | 2006-10-13 10:10:22 AM
Munkeypants: A man hiring himself out as a maid isn't called "drive".
It's called "kinky".
Then again, if the uniform's tight, the heels are high and you've practised your accent.....
Posted by: John Palubiski | 2006-10-14 12:57:08 PM
By the way, even though I don't live in TO, I'd vote for the girl.
She's normal, ok?
Stephen LeDrew has bobcat eyebrows.
That's ugly.
Posted by: John palubiski | 2006-10-14 1:00:34 PM
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