#Doug Ford and Rob Ford

[in-sightjournal]

Ask A Genius 995: A Sense of False Balance

Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What is there in the sense of false balance in the United States? Rosner: We just had a discussion where you said I went on a rant, which I believe to be accurate, about it being a Republican strategy to appeal to less informed voters because they are a capturable demographic. The GOP has been trying to capture them and has been largely successful since the 1970s. Where we…

[waxdroid]

me talking about rimmer's gay subtext while knowing full well that it was written with homophobic intent

[sighberiann]

cool to see rob ford is going by a new name these days

ORC FACTS

Toronto is one of the biggest cities in Canada with the most people in it

[solchrom]

Team Ford goes Godzilla on the waterfront: this ain't your grandpa's conservatism

I’ve tried to avoid the easy snark in reaction to Doug Ford’s musings about turning what’s left of Toronto’s waterfront into a megamall-themed, monorail-adorned, Ferris-wheel-festooned amusement park. It doesn’t do any good, after all, to get all riled up and turn into indignant sputtering caricatures of Left-Wing Kooks every time Brother Doug has a brain fart. But it turns out it wasn’t just a…

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[1000-year-old-virgin]

Doug Ford complaining about the BC drug decriminalization and specifically mentioning Crack as if his brother wasn't a avid crack connoisseur

[brosetv]

So they've cut a lot of heathcare resources that are needed, but have a big pile of money to buy our votes? Fuck this shit.

As the provincial government gears up to give $200 cheques to nearly all residents, an advocacy group says the government needs to double the support it provides to Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) recipients. The Ontario government says it will send a $200 rebate cheque to roughly 15 million people in the province, for every taxpayer, as well as $200 for each child in eligible family. Trevor Manson, the co-chair of ODSP Action Coalition — a grassroots volunteer advocacy group led by people with disabilities on ODSP, is calling for the government to double ODSP rates. "Right now, every political party in Ontario is calling for rates to be doubled, except for the government....  Except for the party that's in power," said Manson.

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[loverboybitch]

great shirt from my work. happy easter.//.

[grunge-mermaid]

if any non-Ontarian is watching the Law & Order TO episode about the crack smoking mayor and wondering how accurate it is, they're kinda toning down the corruption tbh

[canadachronicles]

Premier Doug Ford: “Throughout her life, whether on the ice, in a boardroom or on the floor of the Council Chamber, everyone knew hazel was a force to be reckoned with. And if you didn’t, you quickly found out!” 

[newsfromstolenland]

Additional question based on some of the tags:

edit: I MEANT RIP ROB, Doug is alive

I was hit by a ton of bricks type realization the other day so:

Personally, I remember it happening. As a young teenager in the Toronto area we had...lots of jokes

Also, now you know:

[lantern-hill]

an ontario provincial audit by auditor general bonnie lysyk just dropped on the process involved in premier rob ford's decision to open up the protected lands of the ontario greenbelt to "build affordable housing."

1. Developers directly asked Steve Clark’s chief of staff for several Ontario Greenbelt sites to be opened. 2. The Greenbelt Project Team had a three-week time limit. 3. Anyone who knew about the Greenbelt site selection process was bound by confidentiality agreements. 4. The public, affected municipalities and Indigenous nations were not adequately consulted. 5. Ontario Agricultural Ministry expects Greenbelt removals to have ‘significant adverse agricultural land impacts’. 6. Ontario had enough land to build on and there was no evidence that opening the Greenbelt would increase housing supply. 7. There are no checks and balances to ensure when and if housing is built on former Greenbelt sites. 8. Political staff broke legislative rules when communicating with lobbyists and developers.

+ doug ford + the ontario greenbelt: a timeline

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

Tomorrow (June 5) at 7:15PM, I’m in London at the British Library with my novel Red Team Blues, hosted by Baroness Martha Lane Fox.

On Tuesday (June 6), I’m on a Rightscon panel about interoperability.

#15yrsago British Telecom’s eavesdropping software crashed browsers https://www.wired.com/2008/06/isp-spying-made/

#15yrsago Entertainment industry accuses campus laser-printers of downloading Indiana Jones https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/the-inexact-science-behind-dmca-takedown-notices/

#10yrsago Scenes from #OccupyGezi https://occupygezipics.tumblr.com/post/52217650905/a-young-girl-sells-anonymous-masks-in-taksim

#10yrsago Anonymizing is really hard really, so why is the EU acting like it’s easy? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2013/jun/05/data-protection-eu-anonymous

#10yrsago Beast Academy: grade three math textbooks in monster comics form https://memex.craphound.com/2013/06/05/beast-academy-grade-three-math-textbooks-in-monster-comics-form/

#5yrsago Rob Ford crack-smoking video is “gone” https://www.gawker.com/the-rob-ford-crack-video-might-be-gone-511254183

#5yrsago HOWTO make edible Aliens eggs and chestbursters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bxYD2fF1XA

#5yrsago Facebook is the hub of the global trade in endangered species: can securities law be used to force the company into action? https://www.wired.com/story/tusks-horns-and-claws-inside-the-fight-to-destroy-the-animal-parts-bazaar-on-facebook/

#5yrsago For more than a decade, Facebook shared your friends’ data and other sensitive info with phone makers, even after they claimed not to (they’re still doing it) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/03/technology/facebook-device-partners-users-friends-data.html

#5yrsago Bayer and Monsanto merge into a new company called “Bayer” because Nazis have a better reputation than Big Ag https://www.reuters.com/article/us-monsanto-m-a-bayer-closing/with-deal-to-close-this-week-bayer-to-retire-monsanto-name-idUSKCN1J00IZ

#5yrsago This viral campaign video for a progressive New York Democratic primary challenger cost less than $10K and spread like wildfire https://theintercept.com/2018/06/05/ocasio-cortez-new-york-14th-district-democratic-primary-campaign-video/

#5yrsago It’s really easy to steal your cellphone number, and that’s a gateway to stealing everything else https://www.consumerreports.org/scams-fraud/cell-phone-account-fraud/

#5yrsago Rob Ford’s brother is running for Ontario Premier, but Rob Ford’s widow is suing him for stealing millions from the family https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-faces-multimillion-dollar-lawsuit-1.4691378

#1yrago The Big Box of Sparkly Unicorn Magic https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/05/heavenly-nostrils/#better-than-calvin

Catch me on tour with Red Team Blues in London and Berlin!

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

Street meat and raccoons! I’m surprised lord haven’t gone for Run Over by Premier Doug Ford considering all the people that he’s almost run over and his dislike of Tory

Please enjoy this niche Toronto humour. Also vote! Even if you have no fucking clue what I’m on about.

[dreamhot]

You didn’t have to specify rob ford 😭 his brother is doing his own brand of irreparable damage to literally every public sector here… three more years right?!

i literally got the brothers backwards HELP MEEEE rob was the relevant one when i lived in toronto. doug ford is arguably worse

[secreteviltwin]

new conspiracy theory doug ford killed rob ford as a media stunt