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In addition to trying to pull city funding for the event Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has now said he will be going to his cottage instead of attending Toronto’s largest money making 1 week event - one that brings in over $100 million to the city. This will be the first time in over 15 years that a mayor has not attended Toronto’s Pride Parade. They mayor will also be absent when the Pride flag is raised at city hall and is not expected to attend any of the other events during the week long festival.
Toronto’s Pride Parade attracts over 1 million people to the event, it is the largest Pride Parade in North America and believed to be the 3rd largest Pride Parade in the world.
Rob Ford interview with CP24 with actual facts being checked.
The legal opinion was sought out by councillor Joe Mihevc (Ward 21, St. Paul’s).
Karen Stintz, the embattled chair of the Toronto Transit Commission, handed a petition to the city clerk, forcing a special council meeting on how to spend $8.4 billion in transit funding. The petition asks council to renew its commitment to the 2009 Transit City plan of former mayor David Miller, which calls for light rail lines on Eglinton, Sheppard and Finch Avenues.
Amusing look into the mentality of people who voted for Rob Ford and thought his view for transit in Toronto were actually viable.
Great article from the Grid pointing out the hypocrisy behind Toronto mayor Rob Ford’s recent comments regarding the photo of a public servant apparently sleeping at their desk.
“C*ck Sucker” - Mayor Rob Ford
After a video surfaced yesterday of Mayor Rob Ford at an Etobicoke eatery (the Steak Queen) in the early hours of Tuesday Jan. 21st, visually intoxicated, speaking at times in Jamaican patois and calling Toronto police chief Bill Blair a “c*ck sucker”, Mayor Ford responded to video:
“I said I was there, I met some friends. If I speak that way that’s how I speak with some of my friends. I don’t think it’s discriminative at all. It’s my own time, it’s my own time,” (source)
Perhaps Rob Ford was so drunk that he doesn’t remember what he said, one of his blackouts #inadrunkenstupor. Perhaps he hadn’t seen the video that he was speaking to the press about. Or perhaps Mayor Ford simply doesn’t understand that calling someone a “c*ck sucker” is offensive and homophobic.
Maybe Ford is just so stupid that he doesn’t understand how that can be seen as homophobic. If trying to belittle another man by saying that he engages in oral sex with other men as an insult in his mind is not offensive and homophobic then he’s seriously on crack.
What truly gets me though is that Mayor Ford was irate when a reporter called him a “fat f*ck”. He clearly took great offense to that, as shown in the video below. But yet he can call someone homophobic slurs and that’s supposed to be okay?
I also take great offense to the fact that the media has not made a bigger deal about this. If a politician of a major US city made that comment the media outlets south of the border would be raking him over the coals right now. There would be outcry and demands for an apology to the Queer community. Yet here so little has been mentioned regarding it and I have heard only one reporter pose a question about it. Passive homophobia, allowing these comments to go unchecked, can be just as bad as the person making the comments.
The media outlets in Toronto should be ashamed of themselves, as should Rob Ford.
The Queer community deserves an apology both from Rob Ford for his comments and from the media outlets for ignoring them.
Toronto - Up Up and Away
Just when you thought Toronto’s condo and mega construction boom couldn’t get any hotter a quick look at some of the proposed building projects puts ya straight.
Since the construction of 1 King West (176m) 2005 Toronto has seen a resurgance in the construction of skyscrapers (for the purpose of saving time and space I have only included buildings over 150m).
Recently we have seen the completion of:
- Maple Leaf Square South and North towers (170m and 186m)
- Pinnacle Centre - Success Tower (157.4m) - 2009
- Quantum North (160m) - 2009
- The Ritz-Carlton (208m) - 2010
- Bay Adelaide Centre (218m) - 2009
- RBC Centre (183m) - 2009
- Residences of College Park (163m) - 2006
- Four Seasons Hotel and Residences West (205m) - 2011
- The Uptown Residences (158m) - 2011
- Festival Tower (157m) - 2010
Currently there are a number of other building under construction:
- Trump International Hotel and Tower (281.88m) - 2011/2012
- Aura at College Park (239.78m) - Estimated 2013 completion.
- Shangri-La (210m) - Estimated 2012 completion
- Ice Condo, structure 2 (216.8m) - Estimated 2014 completion
- Ice Condo, structure 1 (185.8m) - Estimated 2013 completion
- L Tower (205m) - Estimated 2012 completion
- U Condominiums (175m) - Estimated 2012 completion
- Number One Bloor (*230ish m) - Estimated 2014 completion
- 300 Front st. West (156m) - Estimated completion 2012
- Burano on Bay (158m) - Estimated completion 2012
- Westlake, structure 1&2 (meters unknown, floors 50) - Estimated completion unknown
- FIVE Condominiums (152.35m) - Estimated completion 2014
Even more buildings have been proposed:
- Ten York (248.72m) - Estimated occupancy 2016
- 90 Harbour Square, structure 2 (70 floors, height unknown)
- 90 Harbour Square, structure 1 (70 floors, height unknown)
- Signature (217.5m) - Status unknown
- 156 Front West, Structure 1 (65 floors, height unknown)
- 460 Yonge (60 floors, height unknown)
- 501 Yonge, North structure (192m)
- 501 Yonge, South structure (192m)
- 42 Charles East (57 floors, heigh unknown)
- Yorkville and Bay, Structure 2 (56 floors, height unknown)
- 6 Glen, Structure 4 (56 floors, height unknown)
- Canada Tower Hotel and Residence , and The Residences at First Toronto Tower (55 floors, height unknown)
- Karma (52 floors, height unknown)
- 156 Front West, Structure 2 (54 floors, height unknown)
- 6 Glen, Structure 3 (53 floors, height unknown)
- 6 Glen, Structure 2 (50 floors, height unknown)
- Richmond Adelaide Centre 2 (183m)
- 43 Gerrard West (50 floors, height unknown)
- Waterways (153.1m)
- 40 Scott st. aka: Royal & Sun Alliance (58 floors, 194.767)
