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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.

Cogeco allows you to monitor usage on its website. I just got Netflix and have a 30 gb limit. So I'm definitely going to watch my web usage. BTW online gaming doesn't take very much bandwidth at all.

Who here other than perhaps Zachery is saying the CBC is the mouthpiece of the government?

BM are you claiming that the CBC has no agenda and is truly an unbiased news source? I'd sorta need evidence to support that theory. Being 100% unbiased is next to impossible. Again I doubt many here really object to the political slant the CBC takes. Take into account who watch the several. It's very difficult to provide satisfactory evidence to prove a Liberal bias. Anyone can give examples of how they believe the CBC display their Liberal bias. - I point to them not naming the war criminals that the government of Canada wants to find and deport. - The election widget that more times than not recommended you vote Liberal. - CBC Radio in Toronto's treatment of Mayor Rob Ford. - The fact Strombo still has a show. Unless you think he's "dreamy" why would you watch that show? - Wall to wall coverage of Jack Layton's death. (I know other network covered the issue but not to the extent as the CBC) They actually had a pundit call Ezra Levant disgusting for wondering why the CBC covered the death so much. - After the Olso bombing/shooting they ran a story asking why right-wing extremism is making a comeback in Europe. (Really because of one guy? Where are all the stories about how Islam is taking over Europe?) Now I'm sure you'll try to multi-quote me refuting each of those points. Again those are just examples why I believe there is a deep Liberal bias. I've seen Micheal Coren talk about the CBC and say that there are just some issues that are never discussed at the CBC, I've heard him say that people get blackballed on the CBC for their political views. I can't prove it these are just anecdotes. I'm just a messageboarder I really don't want to do research to prove my thesis here. Unless I perhaps get given a gumint grant. But again the CBC's political bias isn't the main issue. Many people have said they just don't like the fact that 1.1 billion is given to this organization and they refuse to open their books.

How can the government control it if it can't even force them to release the figured on how they spend their money? Apparently this whole WhateverCommonwealthNation-BC works well in the UK but it's pretty much the only game in town unless you get Satellite ditto with Jamaica. Which system would you prefer? As a side, Don't you guise find it hilarious that every episode of Marketplace always ends the same way. After they reveal the scam someone is running and they spend all this money to track them down either to be lied to or ignored in those always hilarious "don't point the camera at me" moments. They always go to the government. Almost without fail. "Minister X why aren't you protecting Citizen Y from Scam Z." Erica Johnson is pretty cute but I want to punch her square in the face every time I see her act all indignant to some government (Usually from the CPC) official. Marketplace is pretty good evidence that the CBC is in favour of more government control of our lives not less. If the CBC was a real Government Organization, Minister X would be able to say. "Shut that effing camera off or we're cutting your funding tomorrow"

Yeah but Strombo is cool and represents all Canadians man! BTW the government doesn't have control over the CBC. That's the point. So it's not really a state broadcaster in the typical sense of the word. It's more of a freeloading organization that takes government money, is accountable to no one and doesn't have to prove that money is going towards fulfilling its mandate (at least yet).

I'm pretty sure that's what they already are. Like any government organization they have to spend every red cent of that 1.1 billion or they may never see it again. Why else would they be crying poor in regards to switching from analog to digital. Something every other private broadcaster has already done. BTW why is it that something really important like a hospital or the military is forced to show their books to the public but the CBC isn't. I'm entitled to know what the CEO of Hydro One or what the Prime Minister makes but not Peter Mansbridge? They both get their pay from the same taxpayer.

The perceived bias of any news outlet is subjective on one's opinions. I bet there are people who think the Toronto Star is a fair and biased newspaper. And it's constant attacks on Mayor Rob Ford are just fair comment. I actually think the CBC goes to great length to appear to be unbiased and by doing so they display a sort of political correctness that many on the right, myself included, find somewhat objectionable. A good example of this is their unwillingness to publish the names and pictures of the "war criminals" that were meant to be deported by the Canadian government.

See being fat is a choice so it's cool. Gay jokes for Smitherman or going after him for his drug problems. Totally offside.

I don't think it's all that extreme to be opposed to the fact that the CBC gets a $1.1 billion head start on the private broadcasters it competes with. What also galls a lot of people, and it's been mentioned several times in this thread, is that if the CBC is a "Crown Corporation" yet refuses to release it's numbers to the public.

I never said it was bad. I would be peeved if my municipality tacked on $60 to my annual birthday walk of shame to the Service Ontario Kiosk though. But as someone who thinks drivers should pay more you probably think it should be $300+ eh?

You could blame that on David Miller too BTW. He could have brought taxes in-line with the rest of the GTA during his term, don't bet on Rob Ford doing it. I guess instead he did things like the $60 license fee and the land transfer tax. But when a single bedroom house next to a railway goes for $229,000 the burden of the average Toronto resident is still pretty high regardless of the actual rate. So the comparison isn't terribly fair. http://www.moneyville.ca/article/1052635--second-cheapest-house-in-toronto-has-everything-but-a-buyer

Ford's already said he's willing to hike taxes about 3%. If you believe there really is a 700gr deficit then 3% or even 5% won't cover it.

Do you know what's also funny? How everything conservative is now labeled Tea Party by the Left. Conservatives in Canada have little to do with the Tea Party.

I do believe at McDonalds the calorie count is on the box and on the back of the place mat, I think that's satisfactory. Do you really want it to be in big bold type on the board?

I'd venture to say if you could be poor 50 years ago and poor today, you'd rather be poor today.

^^^^^ criminal