Toronto resident outlines Mayor Rob Ford's manifesto



A citizen of Toronto (Mary Hynes) lays out the Rob Ford Manifesto in front of Mayor Rob Ford and City Council (VIDEO).

Editorial comments in Toronto Star about Ford's envisioned massive cut-backs on Library services as an integral part of Canadian culture:

Melville House Publishing, Brooklyn, on the spat between Ford and Atwood:

“What’s important to note in this story, besides the level of anti-intellectualism achieved by Councilman Doug Ford, is that this is exactly the kind of heedless and uninformed decision-making involved in library cuts … But apparently the art of tactful response just doesn’t run in the Ford family.”

Tommy Schnurmacher, News Talk Radio CJAD 800 AM, Montreal:

“I am not generally in the habit of paying much attention — make that any attention — to comments made by Toronto city councillors. However, one particular comment has raised eyebrows from what Peter Mansbridge likes to describe as “coast to coast to coast.” While discussing the possible closing of some local Toronto libraries as part of Toronto budget cuts, rookie councillor Doug Ford made a remark that I am convinced will go down in the annals of Canadian literature. Doug noted that he had no clue who the sainted Margaret Atwood was! He went so far as to say he wouldn’t know her if she walked by him … I am left with a gnawing melancholy about poor Mr. Ford. What can one really say of a life lived without ever having been exposed to any of Margaret Atwood’s prodigious literary output?”

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Despite their intentions to the opposite effect, I do not find the fake laughter coming from the city councillors disconcerting. For a group of individuals for whom appearances is so important, you think they would have a better understanding of their limited abilities as actors. Especially the councillor on the bottom left of the screen, actually leaning back in the chair as if she can’t control herself.

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