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Enza Anderson Urges Reflection, Not Reaction, on Giambrone Issue

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 22, 2010) - Enza Anderson, Candidate for Toronto City Council in Ward 27, today released a statement on Adam Giambrone's recent career issues.
"So far, I've declined to comment on the private behaviour of a public official," said Anderson, "because we're missing the real questions here.
Is private behaviour always related to career duties? Who decides what conduct is relevant? Where is this policy published? And finally, how does it serve Toronto to act out a daytime-TV version of civic politics—in a centre of culture?
If self-indulgence is the issue, then feeling superior over common weakness also qualifies as self-indulgent. (Smirking is so terribly un-photogenic.)
The only issue is that each of us, including media, shares responsibility for what we were looking for in the first place: Distraction. Now let's get back to business. And Adam, don't make me have to come over there."

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Hume Disagrees With Mayor...

Hume: Transit ills are taking back seat to scandal

February 12, 2010
Christopher Hume

A mishap on the Yonge line sent TTC passengers into the streets to line up for shuttle buses in this November, 2009 file photo.

DAVID COOPER/TORONTO STAR

For one reason or another, everybody's mad at the TTC these days.
And of course the TTC is mad at us.
The reasons are familiar: Lousy service, lousy passengers, surly operators, surly riders ...
If all that wasn't enough, now TTC chair Adam Giambrone has been caught with his pants down and run afoul of the guardians of Toronto the Good.
Everyone comes out of this looking bad, ticket taker and traveller, citizen and politician. And right on cue, the media have lived up to their role as self-appointed judge and chief hypocrite.
Forgotten in this downward spiral of anger and accusation is public transit itself. True, the TTC is topic No. 1 right now in Toronto, but does anyone dare believe the commission will benefit from the outrage? Quite the opposite; it has been demonized and demoralized. Ask anyone: the TTC is an example of all that's wrong in the city today.

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Lapdog love-in as Miller stands by his TTC man: Levy

By Sue-Ann Levy

Our lame duck mayor was unapologetic, uncompromising, downright dismissive and petulantly defensive Thursday when asked to respond to the indiscretions of his philandering protege, Adam Giambrone.

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