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Nov. 15th, 2013
Seriously?
Nov. 15th, 2013 10:52 am"Cocaine, escorts and poutine: 10 allegations from the Rob Ford documents"? How is poutine an allegation?
Anyway, Ontario's premier is being very cautious about intervention*. If the province gets involved, it won't be a unilateral act on their part, nor will the Liberals act alone; ideally both the NDP and the Tories would have to sign off on whatever is done.
Issues for the parties to consider: Ford Nation is likely to see any action by the NDP and the Liberals as a leftist coup. As well, neither "support the guy whose drug pecadillos make daily news" or "anger the right-leaning supporters of same" can look all that attractive to the Tories, who would normally count on Ford Nation votes.
* I am not sure what would be involved in de-amalgamation but it would solve Toronto's short term problem by transforming Ford from Mayor of the largest city in Canada to the Mayor of Etobicoke.
Anyway, Ontario's premier is being very cautious about intervention*. If the province gets involved, it won't be a unilateral act on their part, nor will the Liberals act alone; ideally both the NDP and the Tories would have to sign off on whatever is done.
Issues for the parties to consider: Ford Nation is likely to see any action by the NDP and the Liberals as a leftist coup. As well, neither "support the guy whose drug pecadillos make daily news" or "anger the right-leaning supporters of same" can look all that attractive to the Tories, who would normally count on Ford Nation votes.
* I am not sure what would be involved in de-amalgamation but it would solve Toronto's short term problem by transforming Ford from Mayor of the largest city in Canada to the Mayor of Etobicoke.
Toronto city council has voted 39-3 to remove Mayor Rob Ford's power to hire and fire the deputy mayor and appoint members of his executive committee.
The vote Friday means Ford, a mayor mired in scandal, will continue his last 11 months as mayor with severely limited powers.
I missed this at the time
Nov. 15th, 2013 11:56 am
Detectives watched a house at 51 Benway Dr. in north Etobicoke this summer. That turns out to be where a red Ford Mustang used by Lisi was parked. Some of the activities officers observed are blacked out.
[...]
The Star discovered that 51 Benway was named in a February police news release related to a missing woman, Jaclyn Dawe, 35, who was last seen there on Feb. 9, 2013.
Police spokesman Mark Pugash said Saturday that Dawe is still missing. There is nothing in the document, other than the address, to connect the missing woman to Boot or Lisi.