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    What the Alberta Lieutenant Governor is suggesting in this instance is that she get independent legal advice as to the validity of the Act if and when passed, which will surely come back as it being ultra vires.

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      Hazel McCallion - who served as Mayor of the Toronto suburb of Mississauga for 36 years - has expired at just shy of her 102nd birthday.

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        https://twitter.com/journo_dale/status/1620516444101574658?t=4CGkWLmYuu60hJ4Z-mA5Vw&s=19

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          Just months after winning a third term, Toronto Mayor John Tory has just resigned after The Star broke a story that he'd had an affair with a 31 year old staffer. He's 68 and been married 45 years.

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            Originally posted by WOM View Post
            Toronto Mayor John Tory has just resigned after The Star broke a story that he'd had an affair with a 31 year old staffer. He's 68 and been married 45 years.
            No way.

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              Don't know if any of the Canadian/US posters have a view on NDP's MP, Niki Ashton, but had a work call with her Chief of Staff earlier, who was a delightful man, tbf.

              Extremely helpful and obliging.

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                Originally posted by caja-dglh View Post

                No way.
                IKR? As Conservative as they come, too. Rich...patrician...connected.

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                  Irrespective of political inclination, fundamentally alpha-males just can't keep it in their pants. It's as true now as it's ever been.

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                    Why do you keep electing complete arseholes as mayor?

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                      Because the boundaries of the relevant constituency were set to include the outlying areas with very high assholic quotients.

                      The City of Toronto has changed substantially over the years: the city annexed or amalgamated with neighbouring communities or areas 49 times from in 1883 to 1967.[18] The most sweeping change was in 1998, when the six municipalities comprising Metropolitan TorontoEast York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, York, and the former city of Toronto–and its regional government were amalgamated into a single City of Toronto (colloquially dubbed the "megacity") by an act of the provincial government. The newly created position of mayor for the resulting single-tier mega-city replaced all of the mayors of the former Metro municipalities. It also abolished the office of the Metro chairman, which had formerly been the most senior political figure in the Metro government before amalgamation.
                      It isn't as if the office was held by titans of probity before that, but the political impact of the ongoing demographic transformation of the city has been diluted by the boundary changes.

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                        Originally posted by TonTon View Post
                        Why do you keep electing complete arseholes as mayor?
                        Honestly, John Tory is a stupidly qualified politician. He's educated, experienced, smart and connected. But he's run for everything including dog catcher and lost.

                        So, after the fucking lunacy of the crack-addled Rob Ford years, he offered a steady hand at the wheel and that's just what people wanted.

                        Thing is, he swore he'd only serve two terms...and then he ran for and won a third, which upset a lot of progressives. As someone wrote yesterday, if he'd gone back to private life, there's no way The Star would have run the story. It would have just been tittle tattle and they'd not have done it. But as the (just reelected) mayor, they had to.

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                          He's definitely an arsehole though, there seems to be zero doubt on that front.

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                            If you cheat on your spouse of 45 years while she convalesces in Florida...uh...yeah.

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                              Thanksgiving dinner should be fun. He's got four kids and a handful of grandkids...all staring down the table at cheaty-gramps. Hallmark moment....

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                                There's also his record as mayor, since getting the gig.

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                                  Originally posted by WOM View Post
                                  Thanksgiving dinner should be fun. He's got four kids and a handful of grandkids...all staring down the table at cheaty-gramps. Hallmark moment....
                                  You lot have a different TG from your southern neighbours, right?

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                                    Originally posted by TonTon View Post
                                    There's also his record as mayor, since getting the gig.
                                    He's strangled anything that needs funding, yeah, by vowing to 'hold tax increases at or below inflation'. He's a conservative...low taxes are everything.

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                                      Originally posted by TonTon View Post

                                      You lot have a different TG from your southern neighbours, right?
                                      Similar barbarism on a different weekend.

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                                        Originally posted by TonTon View Post
                                        He's definitely an arsehole though, there seems to be zero doubt on that front.
                                        Originally posted by WOM View Post
                                        He's a conservative
                                        Indeed.

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                                          Originally posted by WOM View Post
                                          Similar barbarism on a different weekend.
                                          Do you eat the same food as them for it?

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                                            Mostly. We don't do the sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top.

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                                              https://twitter.com/bruce_arthur/status/1625878972637626369?t=BeytJkBxqSx_FmRLMKMV_A&s=19

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                                                Originally posted by WOM View Post
                                                Mostly. We don't do the sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top.
                                                I've only ever seen that once in the wild.

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                                                  "Let's take arguably the sweetest vegetable...and put more sugar on top."

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                                                    "Tickety-boo" = the Mayor was carousing with an underling < half his age, while Premier Ford (brother of late crack-Mayor Rob) is selling off protected provincial land to developers who attended his daughter's stag-and-doe* and made undocumented and unreported cash 'gifts' to the lovely couple.

                                                    So...all good here.


                                                    *wedding shower attended by men and women

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