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So I suppose you also oppose 2nd generation Canadians that identify with the country of their parents. See anytime a big Soccer tournament comes around.

Now who's being extremist. I suppose if you're allowed a smoke break you can have a prayer break. But the fact you can't just pray at your work terminal seems a bit weird. But banning lunch meetings is a pretty ridiculous policy.

Dalton's doing it again! If you can't see this as a cynical ploy to buy votes then you're not paying attention. So you wanna build a plant in Oakville. No those people are rich and they have a Liberal MPP so we won't build it there. What about Etobicoke/Missisauga border. Nope the election race is too close. Watch Dalton build it in Burlington or Milton if they elect a Tory MPP. Halton Hill/Milton already has a gas-powered plant.

I find it very hypocritical when "secularists" will go the great length to try and remove any mention of religion in the public realm but refuse to come out and condemn Jihadist Islam. Similar people will call Israel an apartheid state but pretty much ignore the racism, sexism, homophobia and intolerance of minorities in much of the Arab world. That may not be hypocritical but it shows that the anti-Israeli crowd don't have consistent opinions.

I'm certain there'll be backlash. Muslim's in the UK protested Remembrance Day and 9/11 ceremonies in the past year. It's a good sign though.

I'm certain there'll be backlash. Muslim's in the UK protested Remembrance Day and 9/11 ceremonies in the past year. It's a good sign though.

Then tell us some of the issues you disagree with him on. Islam and the downfall of the US are two of the big things I hear him discussing when I see him on TV.

There are people here saying he's a hack or he's a jerk etc. Not a lot of people saying that the stuff he's saying is actually wrong.

Well there is a difference. You have to have some marketable skill and training to be a mechanic, electrician, plumber, gas fitter, etc. The pick up garbage, sell liqour, collect tokens and answer phones you sorta don't.

Trades are a different story. Those are usually always union gigs and they're also pretty recession proof unlike working for an airline or an assembly line for the Big 3. I've got an HVAC guy coming to do the annual maintenance on my furnace and AC. I'm pretty sure the bill will be easily over $150 for maybe 20 minutes of work. If I was given a chance to do this life over again, I'd have gotten into a trade from the get go. If I ever get laid off, that's the field I'll go into as well.

Sorry that was a typo. You know I don't totally be-grudge these people for making good money doing what they do. But when governments are up against the wall with these budget deficits, the public service unions appear to be completely unwilling to make any concessions. Many in the private sector have made serious concessions. The problem is that a private sector company has a finite source of income. In theory the public sector has an unlimited source of revenue. But you've probably heard this argument already.

It's not the city of Toronto but here's an example. Do you think a cashier at the Gap or Food Basics makes a comparable wage to someone at the LCBO? It's a comparable job. Why do you think outsourcing of garbage pick-up is all the rage nowadays? Cuz it's cheaper, they don't make as much. It's still a decent job but nowhere near as lucrative. And yes I think if you don't have any other marketable skills other than riding a bus, working for the TTC is a good alternative.

And BTW it's not just Unions. I'm sure there are plenty middle-management on the City of Toronto payroll that do very little work and get paid very well for it. Apparently 250 Non-Union TTC employees got walking papers yesterday.

This is simply not true. Many people would do these jobs. With any union jobs it's who you know, not what you know. And with the public backlash about jobs like these I see new public service jobs becoming rarer and rarer. For certain jobs yes. I can't say what an acceptable wage is. People make due with less than $50,000/year family income and they have kids to boot. People who make $100,000+/year are hopelessly in debt. What gets people's back up about what public service make is that, without fail, comparable work in the private sector is paid far less. Call it envy if you want.

It will if those places the city owns operates at a loss. You'll get a one time boost but you won't have to worry about paying for a money-losing operation. You may not mind it, but people who sit in a booth and make at least $60,000/year tax payer money kind of rubs people the wrong way. Sure in a lefties world everyone should make a livable wage but that's not the world we live in. So this guy makes more than I make a year in Overtime!!! http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/09/19/staffers-cost-ttc-1-6-million-in-overtime/ Call it jealousy if you'd like but it's not like these gumint jobs fund themselves. I know janitors for school boards that make an extremely good living cleaning a school. I'd venture to say they make almost as much, if not more than the teacher.

It will if those places the city owns operates at a loss. You'll get a one time boost but you won't have to worry about paying for a money-losing operation. You may not mind it, but people who sit in a booth and make at least $60,000/year tax payer money kind of rubs people the wrong way. Sure in a lefties world everyone should make a livable wage but that's not the world we live in. So this guy makes more than I make a year in Overtime!!! http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/09/19/staffers-cost-ttc-1-6-million-in-overtime/ Call it jealousy if you'd like but it's not like these gumint jobs fund themselves. I know janitors for school boards that make an extremely good living cleaning a school. I'd venture to say they make almost as much, if not more than the teacher.

See how meaningless opinion polls are. It's just a tool for news organizations to be able to tell people what they think. So what is it? 40% or 60%? Either way Prez Obama would kill for Rob Ford's numbers.

Well I don't really have the time to research the exact numbers of all the departments. But when you consider what a garbage man and a token collector makes in Toronto you'd have to assume cuts can be made. I do however know that the Police's budget is like 90% salaries and benefits. You can see CUPE is in total PR spin mode right now. Do you really think they care about the services or they don't want to see members jobs eliminated? BTW looks like Ford backed off on a lot of the controversial cutbacks last night like the free child care spots cut Libraries and the zoos. He does want to sell off a bunch of city owned properties, which I'd think is OK.

Actually Cleo Lemon might have been worse in the CFL than in the NFL. But yeah Cameron Wake is evidence that the best players go to the NFL. He was the best in the CFL so he made a move to the NFL.

Is there a sarcasm filter on this site? You didn't get the idea that I was joking? People in this thread are calling Mayor Ford his Lardness etc. I was just illustrating that calling him calling him fat is fine in his opponents mind but anyone who would even think of making a Gay joke targeted at George Smitherman would have probably been taken to a Human Rights Tribunal. If I remember correctly, David Miller was pretty chunky when he got elected no one made fun of him then that I ever heard. Michael Moore usually skates on his morbid obesity. What about Al Gore? Bill Clinton was usually revered for his obvious lack of any love of physical fitness. Yet Rush Limbaugh is a fat drug user. BTW :lol at having another marathon session today having people whining about cuts. If Rob Ford was smart he should only alloy people to speak that have a reasonable alternative to cutting the program they don't want cut. If you notice people want a tax hike but no one is saying there should be a 10-20% tax hike that would be needed to fund the government without cutting services.

I hope you were trying to be ironic with this post.

They may not be Anti-Semitic but they sure are anti-Israel. The fact that Israeli Apartheid idiots are laughed off University campuses every time they try to claim that Israel is similar to Apartheid South Africa proves that they have issues with Israel. I think it stems more from the fact that Israel is propped up by the US and they hate the US.

Hello sir and/or madame. Press 1 if you if want the poor to die in the streets and the TTC to be abolished tomorrow. Press 2 if you don't.

I 100% agree. There's no evidence that the government runs the CBC, infact the evidence is to the contrary. But it clearly funds a majority of it.