Around the world in eight columns
On a somewhat odd and not altogether inspiring day for punditry, we present the day's best and worst in geographic order: west to east.
The Toronto Star's Catherine Porter hopes a woman runs for mayor of Toronto, because then “female hockey players would get as much ice time at city rinks as men,” and the mayor “could make city council pause at 6 p.m., so councillors could make it home for dinner with their kids, before resuming at 8:30 p.m,” and best of all, “racks on buses would hold strollers as well as bikes.” Alas, the Star's inimitable Bob Hepburn assigns the two women he can see entering the race odds of 20-to-1 (Shelley Carroll) and 60-to-1 (Olivia Chow). For the record, Giorgio Mammoliti trails the pack at an astonishing 10,000-to-1, for the crime of having proposed a revenue-generating casino — a good idea, we think, but one Hepburn for some reason says is a total non-starter. We also like how he dismisses Michael Thompson (2,000-to-1) as “far too right for this city,” but has fire-breathing evangelical Christian Pinball Clemons in at 5-to-1.
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