Letters to Rob Ford: Campaign Promises

Chris Burt shares a letter to the mayor:

Thanks for being mayor, keep up the good work!

I know a lot of people are giving you a hard time these days about ‘not finding’ the gravy, or doing the other stuff, but I am quite proud of several of your achievements to date, and I would like to outline them for the purpose of ensuring that your side gets a fair and balanced shake against the liberal media.

Letters to Rob Ford: How to Stop the Gravy Train (using gravy)

Andy Smith writes a special letter for a special mayor:

Dear Rob,

I hope it’s ok that I call you Rob. “Your Mayorship” seems too formal for a guy that buys his suits off the rack, and you might think I mean your brother.

Letters to Rob Ford: How to cut a deficit in 22 seconds

Dear Mayor Ford,

Have you ever used ESPN’s trade machine? It’s a simulation that allows everyday people like you and me make the personnel and financial decisions that NBA General Managers do. I found a similar simulation that allows me to be the mayor!

Letters to Rob Ford: Tea Party Connection

Dear Mr. Mayor,

I admire you. It took a lot of determination to tune out 22 hours of whiny complaints by the public regarding proposed service cuts for the city. Most politicians would have been moved by such a demonstration, but not you. I can only imagine how annoying they were. I guess all of us at Ford Nation were too busy since nobody came to support you.

Build it already – Whispers in the wind clearly annoyed at lack of progress with TTC

In Field of Dreams, when Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) heard whispers in the wind, he took a leap of faith. He cleared out his crop to build a baseball diamond, clinging to a completely irrational belief that somehow things will work out in the end. Real life doesn’t work that way.

“renter rip-off”

The price of rents is a hot issue in Toronto as there are very few vacancies these days. For those of us that live in big rental complexes, you know, those old tall buildings with an always absent superintendent and strangers loitering in the front lobby, there is a coalition of concerned citizens that has formed a simple and pointed campaign at reducing rents: Fair Tax Fair Rent

I believe that this proposal would work, and generally speaking I get excited when “concerned citizens” want to take control of such an important thing such as the price of rents, but there is a huge flaw in the proposal.

Postcard Elections

With Municipal elections here the media has focused its attention on what is turning out to be a close mayoral race, with no likable candidates. It is overshadowing the many battles for city councilors across Toronto wards, races that must be fought and won through pamphlets only. As far as politics go, pamphlets are the most thoughtful form of soliciting your vote. Using only a single piece of paper, candidates must employ tasteful design, efficient content and a nice picture of their faces to persuade you. Let’s examine the candidates in Ward 20 of the Trinity-Spadina riding to further analyze these postcard elections.

Taxi!

Torontonians are tolerant people, but ask them about taxi drivers and they will slap you in the face with their frustrations. I’m no different.

Epic Walk

[This is a piece from another blog and it has nothing to do with finance. I wrote it a year ago, and it’s still one of my favourites. Enjoy the final weekend of the summer.]

My sister and I are bad Muslims. It’s the month of Ramadan and we haven’t fasted once. Don’t get me wrong, we’re not bad people, just bad Muslims. Our parents, however, have taught us what Ramadan is all about – sacrifice. And so, on the last day of summer my sister and I set out to walk from downtown Toronto (queen and john) all the way to our parent’s place in Mississauga (like 401 and Mavis). That’s over 30km and it took us 7 hours. I’d like to share the highlights with you.

 

Sick of Garbage?

After repeatedly trying to piece together some semblance of an article, I decided to go the old-fashioned route and write several blog entries.