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Sheppard subway extension: A quarter the stops for three times the cost - The Globe and Mail During the campaign, and now, the numbers haven...

Toronto Star: Police Officer Charged in G20 Beating One down, hundreds to go.

Observations from Rob Ford’s easiest day: Senior Editor Edward Keenan gets a first look at Toronto's new council Edward Keenan makes som...

Reining in the unaccountable chief - thestar.com The Toronto Star is hopeful that Rob Ford will adjust the board so it will guide the police...

Miller vs. Ford: Who Excluded Whom? « Spacing Toronto As you can see from the make-up of the exec. budget and TTC committees formed by Mille...

Conservative senators bulldoze through worrying bills - Hill Queeries We are hearing a lot about what the Conservative senators are doing no...

What Would Light Rail Be Like? - Torontoist Underground, LRT it would be about as fast as the existing subway trains. Above ground, where th...

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/904923--rob-ford-gracious-to-critics-at-inaugural-meeting?bn=1 - Not! How did they expect Ford to be abl...

Ford cast three votes in favour of LRT strategy - The Globe and Mail Excerpts: June 16-19, 2007: City council unanimously adopts a broad cl...

Globe & Mail: Ford starts as he means to go on - unfortunately Rob Ford is already revving up his bulldozer to turn years of progress in...

Cherry’s “pinko” speech sets the tone of Ford administration | rabble.ca Excerpt: Before Grapes could stand and deliver, he got his game fac...

Canvassers Debate Transit City and Light Rail, Door to Door - Torontoist Excerpts: On Saturday, supporters of the provincially backed plan g...

Toronto journalist witnessed ‘police brutality’ at Toronto G20 - thestar.com Excerpt: “One officer held one arm, The other officer held the ...

Ford's plan to hire more police, only cops don't want them - thestar.com Rob Ford wants to hire 100 more cops for Toronto. Yet, he h...

Buckdog: The American And Canadian RIGHT Are Taking Us To A Place We Shouldn't Be Excerpt: - by Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen : "--- ...

Ford’s plan for West Toronto – what is it? — Valentine Makhouleen — interactive art director We all know Rob Ford’s stance on streetcars and...

Newsstand: December 3, 2010 - Torontoist Excerpts: Rob Ford plans to set an appropriately clownish tone for his mayoralty by having Don Cher...

Not so fast, Wynne warns Ford on transit - thestar.com Transit City isn’t dead just because rookie Mayor Rob Ford has decreed it so, warns O...

OCAP challenges the Rob Ford agenda | rabble.ca Listen to the interview at the link. As Rob Ford began his first day as the new mayor of Tor...

Where Toronto councillors sit on the future of Transit City - The Globe and Mail After reviewing the article and adding things up, I see 16 ...

Rob Ford's Press Secretary with one of the gravy packets (see the National Post story below for details about the gravy packets). Global...

Hume: Ford to Transit City: Drop dead - thestar.com Excerpt: The irony, of course, is that this one-note mayor who rode the “gravy train” t...

Ford makes surprise vow to freeze taxes in 2011 - thestar.com The only way he will be able to do this will to use the surplus left over from...

‘War on the car is over’: Ford moves transit underground - thestar.com Rob Ford plans to cancel the Transit City plan, which would have conn...

Mayor Ford’s first stop: Hit brakes on Transit City | Posted Toronto | National Post The Transit City plan, already budgeted for and current...

Let Freedom Rain: So, Israel really did nearly starve the residents of Gaza Excerpts: The documents are even more disturbing, say human righ...

Cops accused by G20 protesters cleared of excessive force allegations The police who committed the crime of excessive force have been cleare...

Hydro rebate won't offset coming increases - Moneyville.ca HST increased hydro bills. The Ontario government plans on paying 10% of the ...

Light rail transit touted as best for Toronto - thestar.com As must have been realized when the Transit City plan came into effect, the ligh...

YouTube - Why people voted for Rob Ford's transit vision Watch this. It is so dead on it is scary. During the election campaign, Joe Pan...

Dawg's Blawg: Push comes to shov e Excerpts: Criticism of Israel will shortly become illegal in Canada. That's the message of the ...

Court has granted Elizabeth May the right to make case for Proportional Representation | Green Party of Canada Excerpt: Multiple public comm...

Harper on Israel: Is the Prime Minister mentally sound? | rabble.ca Excerpt: Watching and listening to Stephen Harper's bizarre and unne...

From Congo to Guantanamo: Omar Khadr, the invisible child soldier | rabble.ca Excerpt: Of course this is great! But what about other child s...

Accidental Deliberations: The bigger picture ... And indeed it's worth noting that the decision to focus on Layton and Chow looks to be ...

CBC News - Politics - G8/G20 costs top $857M - this link is to some highlights CBC News - Friday Documenta Dump - G8/G20 Su mitacular Retro...

YouTube - Don Davies and Bill Blair at G/20 hearings Watch the video. The truth will out. See also: G20 charges dropped over lack of warrant...

Toronto posts $275 million surplus - thestar.com Mihevc credited the windfall to Miller’s restraint program. “One thing it shows is that ...

Preventative detention? - Peace, order and good government, eh? Excerpt: it would appear that the chief of police of a major metropolitan ci...

Nearly 100 Toronto officers to be disciplined over summit conduct - The Globe and Mail Nearly 100 Toronto police officers will be discipline...

Ford's win opens the gates of pro-development hell | rabble.ca This is Rob Ford's true Gravy Train, directing profits to his campaig...

Oct. 26, 2010 - Rob Ford schedules his first interview as mayor-elect. Things don't go so well as he has scheduled the interview (with C...

Ford faces stiff fight on council - thestar.com The Toronto Star managed to survey 32 of the 44 new councillors on some of Ford's main i...

It's one thing for politicians and the mainstream media to lie to people. But, when people you care about fall for those lies and turn ...

Here are two maps showing geographic divisions (by ward) of mayoral candidate support and how the elected councillors will relate to the new...

Worried about Rob Ford? Give him a call - thestar.com Rob Ford has said to the people who didn't vote for him that if they are worried a...

YouTube - Why Rob Ford should never be Mayor Watch the video. Yes, let's all go get raped and shot. Thanks Rob. I'm looking forward ...

Rob Ford handily won the mayor's race in Toronto last night. But all may not be lost for the people of Toronto. Ford has some pretty ext...

Ford, Smitherman no-shows - thestar.com Rob Ford and George Smitherman abruptly pulled out of Wednesday’s debate sponsored by Get Active Tor...

Why Tories Support George Smitherman - Torontoist Nearly 40 Conservatives, including ex cabinet ministers of the Mike Harris government, end...