Boges

But that's a conspiracy! Without a video that the public can scrutinize people are going to believe, what they're going to believe. Whether it be that Ford bought the video, got this drug dealer killed, OR that the Star and Gawker made this story up. Without a video, no one will know.

Regardless of if the video ever existed or not. Does this end this ridiculous, almost month long, story?

What if he claimed it as taxable income?

John Tory is putting his reputation on these very unpopular (at least to the type of people that might vote for Ford) revenue tools to pay for transit. He's become far more liberal than conservative.

You're correct, many posters like to think he'll go up against Olivia Chow. But will she face him alone? Most of the polls I've seen have it a 3 way race with John Tory. I'd put money on guessing he's not going to run. Anything regarding that is speculative at this point.

It seems we've reached a stalemate here. No video. But to many, 2 respected reporters saying they saw a video is evidence enough. The thing about that is that as long as no video surfaces, the reporters in question won't need to deviate from that script. The only way they can be called into question is if the video surfaces and it's obviously a fake. What I find troublesome is the chorus of people that are calling on the mayor to resign. Until concrete evidence against him surfaces he should feel no pressure to resign. If people believe these allegations they can vote him out next year. May I remind everyone that in the middle of the 2010 campaign the Toronto Sun forced Ford to concede that he was charged with a DUI and marijuana possession in Florida and he still got elected. So will unsubstantiated crack allegations make his supporters waiver? I guess we'll see.

Yeah but nothing on Netflix is new except for the handful of original content. You have to wait for up to a year to get seasons of popular shows. It's funny, they were showing the first season of Homeland on a basic cable channel in Canada called Bravo. The day after the last episode aired it got put on Netflix. I'm thinking I'll have to wait until season 3 starts before they'll put season 2 on Netflix. I like it because there are a lot of movies on there I would have never even been exposed to if they weren't on Netflix.

Sorry not IP. It's as simple as changing the DNS numbers in the settings of your Xbox. A friend of mine gave me the numbers. It was very easy. There seems to be many methods that don't require you to send sign up for something. When I was in the UK I got even better content on my phone using their Netflix. I guess it's all about rights fees and stuff.

An easier way is just to change the IP number on the settings of your device. In my case an Xbox 360. I think you can get a number from Google. A lot more TV shows and they show movies shown on TMN. I'll still pay for TMN because of the HBO content on some other new movies very quickly. The latest Batman movie was on this week.

I had heard about the Red Wedding before this evening's episode so I knew it was coming but it still was rather shocking to see such main characters killed all in one scene. I'm really looking forward to the finale next week.

I've mentioned in this thread that they might start charging to park at Go Stations.

No but I'd imagine standing for 10 to 15 minutes on a crowded bus or subway car is better than driving within the city and paying to park.

That may be true for people that use regional transit. Where they make the choice to use transit over a car. But that's already very expensive. Charging people for parking at the station might as well be like increasing the fares. But with the TTC I'd imagine people who use it don't have viable alternatives. And if they're too poor to afford a marginal surcharge for direct transit improvement I'd imagine there will be ways to recoupe that extra cost with certain rebates. Ei. The HST rebate low income people get.

HST is tacked onto hydro and natural gas. But with gasoline they first add a gas tax Then put on the HST. A tax on a tax. You couldn't get away with doing that with natural gas because people also use it to heat their homes.

Also, all public transit is subsidised. So expecting fares to cover 100% of the cost is unrealistic. That being said, when you talk about nickel and dimes, a small surcharge dedicated to transit improvement might not have been a horrible idea. Perhaps an extra dollar for a monthly pass or something like that. Not sure why Metrolinx completely ignored that strategy.

Apparently the Wynne government doesn't have the power to raise the HST without permission from the Fed. I doubt the Harper government wants a tax increase like that on its hands especially since the 905 is the region that very much contributed to their majority government.

One of the rejected tools was just that. They wanted people to have a GPS tracking every km you drive and toll you accordingly. When you think about the increased fuel efficiency of cars. The return on the gas tax might diminish over time and they'll have to look for more tools. Why do you think the government doesn't advocate for cars that run on Natural Gas? There's no dedicated tax for that so governments wouldn't benefit.

But under this plan, the people that stand to pay the most benefit the least. Metrolinx has already admitted they only see a 5 minute average improvement to commute times. What about those that drive but don't contribute to congestion? That's why it baffles me that they didn't recommend any toll roads.

That's average. They say a family that has 2 cars might pay upwards of $900.

Also to say we're literally talking about nickels and dimes is a bit disingenuous. On a 50L tank you'd pay an extra $2.50. If you fill up once a week, that's over a $100 a year EXTRA just to drive to work. They also want charge people to park at GO Train Stations. So you're punishing people that do choose to reduce congestion because they may not live close to a station.

It doesn't effect you if you don't purchase consumer goods that make their way to you through the use of some sort of gasoline. I'm pretty sure you do though. I'm confident in assuming whatever reduction in congestion won't be outweighed by the additional cost of doing business if an additional gas tax is put into place. Also perhaps an increase to fares isn't a revenue tool but the TTC might end up increasing fares anyway if the cost of fuel goes up.

He makes the point that seeing it once on a cellphone might not be the same as seeing it on a screen over and over again. Also I heard the dude being interviewed on the radio, he just wanted to point out that it's not terribly difficult and if he wanted to do more he could have. I think he was responding to a Star story where faking the video would be technically impossible. http://www.randomhouse.ca/hazlitt/blog/rob-ford-crack-video Again I'm not taking a position yet, I don't have a flying clue if a video, fake or real exists. Until, of course, I see it.

In don't know if anyone else has seen this but it's a video of some guy making a video of Ford smoking crack in less than an hour. He's not a pro, or so he says. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnT-ZI_zvdQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player Perhaps it's not so unbelievable that it could have been faked. That is if it even exists.

I'm sooo sick of this story now. I wonder how long this story can keep going when no video has yet to be seen.

They've learned how to hit at least. Starting pitching is huge problem right now. If they can make it to .500 by maybe the All-Star break they'll have a great shot at being contenders. They'll get Jose Reyes back next month which should help them a lot. Again, I'm being very optimistic, but they seemed to have turned a corner, but they have a giant hole to dig out of.