Ford camp courting support from councillors
As Coun. Rob Ford shows momentum in the race to become Toronto's next mayor, some councillors are stepping forward to endorse him, with a possible surprise coming on Wednesday.
Poll finds Ford most trusted, capable candidate
Ford attacked in debate
By JONATHAN JENKINS, Toronto Sun
Moderator Stephen LeDrew had barely opened the latest CP24 mayoral debate Tuesday when the four trailing candidates pounced on frontunner Rob Ford.
Jonathan Kay on Heather Mallick’s bizarre obsession with feminist self-pity and bad sex
Several people have emailed me a link to Heather Mallick’s column about Rob Ford in today’s Toronto Star, claiming that it’s her most disgusting piece of writing ever. I’ll admit that there’s a strong argument for this: Mallick’s column is based around the idea that voting in Rob Ford as Toronto’s mayor would somehow be akin to a desperate female bar-fly having a blind-drunk one-night stand with an oaf she meets at closing time. Much of the column is composed of a sort of reverie in which Mallick describes this hypothetical drunken episode. She gets back to Ford in the last few paragraphs, but it feels tacked on.
For those keeping track at home, Mallick already has flamed out of a few media outlets. She had gigs at the Globe & Mail and the CBC, writing more or less this same awkward mix of left-wing politics and TMI personal reflection. She also has written for Britain’s Guardian — a prestigious perch that this great patriot has used to denounce her own country as a despicable hell hole. She whines constantly — both in her column and in real life. During the only substantial conversation I ever had with her, she lamented to me that Globe & Mail readers didn’t deserve her because they couldn’t understand how “a socialist could like to have beautiful things.”
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