Linda Diebel - Political Decoder

What does restructuring Toronto Animal Service staff mean anyway?

2011-11-28T16:49:42-05:00

Mayor Rob Ford believes the city has no business running pet social programs when the city is financially strapped, Star reporter Robyn Doolittle reported Sunday. http://www.thestar.com/news/cityhallpolitics/article/1093401--2012-the-doomsday-budget-not-so-much Well, 2012 budget proposals are out today. http://www.toronto.ca/budget2012/pdf/2012_opbudg_presentation.pdf On page 16, an interesting little...

Is it too late to send that baby back?

2011-11-25T19:46:16-05:00

thestar.com has a story today about babies' moods in the womb. Apparently it's written all over their faces and supposedly it's not gas. http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/1092473--oh-baby-you-have-your-daddy-s-smile?bn=1 I'm always suspicious of studies that always have the undercurrent of a "bad mother, bad mother"...

2011-08-29T18:18:16-04:00

Guess it would have helped to give you the link to the original story: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1046169--analysis-will-olivia-run-for-the-top-ndp-job

2011-08-29T18:17:24-04:00

Whoa, too many women in political leadership positions and why, why, the whole place could just blow up. Thought it was amusing today to see so many comments to my story on Olivia Chow and the NDP leadership saying, to...

He's not The Boss. Michael Ignatieff plays on his inner Obama.

2011-04-20T08:23:33-04:00

Try as he might, though, the Liberal leader can't get the "Rise Up" refrain from Springsteen to reverberate like, "Yes, We Can!" At a Bramton rally last night, he began the chant, encouraging the crowd to join in and finally...

Feds to Vale: Here's $1 billion and a lake too

2010-10-06T14:37:08-04:00

It should be added to recent reporting on the $1 billion Export Development Canada loan to Brazilian mining giant, Vale S.A., that Ottawa is also throwing in a lake - or is in the last stages of doing so. Vale...

BP oil spill: if you can't see it, it doesn't exist

2010-08-06T17:15:03-04:00

The Obama administration merrily announced this week that most of the BP oil spill has been cleaned up, saying 75 percent of the oil had been captured, burned off, evaporated or broken down. (Evaporated?) Phew. I was getting worried there....

The Only Way to Save 'The Office'

2010-07-05T16:37:33-04:00

Okay, it's just my opinion, but in a sop to a day-so-humid-my-brain-cells-are-fried, I have a solution to save The Office when Steve Carell leaves at the end of next season. Two words: Kathy Bates. After Michael Scott (Carell) leaves, have...

In memory of Fred's Stella

2010-06-28T16:41:24-04:00

Fred, so, so sorry about Stella. And your Mom. Please don't stay away too long. Toronto needs your voice! http://www.onebarkatatime.blogspot.com/ (Repeating this for a separate post)

Police leave protestors vulnerable without gas masks

2010-06-28T16:36:30-04:00

G20: I saw a few police officers removing gas masks from protestors' bags in Allan Gardens and others saw the same thing elsewhere on the weekend. We're not talking about black-garbed thugs in bandanas, but young people, as well as...

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