Boges

I had a lil chuckle yesterday when I hear people are going to protest the offices of KPMG. Some people need obtain lives. You dare you accept money to do an audit!!!!

Or that person could come to the conclusion that the block of ice is fine the way it is and the room needs to be colder.

Actually it's hypocrisy on the side of the Liberals on this issue. As I see it, Harris and Chretien did similar things to balance the books. Yet any critique of Hudak is that he'll institute Harris style cuts. Why not say, Martin-style cuts. Just sayin' I'm not saying I oppose what Martin did. I just hate that he's the saviour of the 90's while Mike Harris is some boogeyman that ruined the province. Both are flat out lies.

So the teachers get whatever they want? 4% annual pay raises. No layoffs even if enrollment is down? When will it end?

I think Daddy Dalton has signed his death warrant with this move. My link OPSEU has been militant about portraying Hudak as Mike Harris 2.0. And now they compare Dalton's moof to trim spending to "The worst cuts, since Mike Harris" It can only be an appeal to the more conservative wing of his base. I predict this party will suffer a similar fate as their Federal cousins. They're going to be squeezed from both sides on this issue. He's probably not going to appeal to those on the right that might think this austerity measure doesn't go far enough. And it might jettison those on the left into the arms of an, I have to admit, impressive Ontario NDP leader in Andrea Horvath. It would appear Election defeat for the Ontario Liberals is a forgone conclusion at this point.

Actually I didn't watch it. The wife had other plans for me. WHIP!!!!! Looks like I didn't miss much. The Als domination of the CFL recently has made the league far less interesting.

I think a 0% Tax Freeze isn't a good idea also BTW. Everyone else gets a tax increase. I hear Rob Ford admits he'll probably have to give people a 3% hike.

Honestly if I ever met this Michelle Frogface guy in real life I'd want to fight him. What an absolute Dooshnozzle! This is exhibit A on why people in most of Canada hate the French. Shame on the Justice system for placating this piece of crap.

I'm going to try to watch the Argos game against the Frogs tonight. I must say the 3 downs make it really tough to watch the CFL. Most drives are killed once a penalty is called.

Other than cutting the car tax, what did he do to reduce revenue? You telling me that the fortunes of the entire city is based solely on charging car owners $60 a year. Maybe a third of the deficit at the most, but not the whole freakin' thing.

LOL not paying for cable.

Usually the morning shows aren't like that. And they do have "impartial" newscasts on the .00's and .30's.

Curious why radio isn't an option. I wake up to talk Radio and that's my first exposure to news.

I like how the renter advocate property tax increases but if their rent goes up it's a travesty and the landlord is just being greedy.

I must say that whole Oski Wee Wee! Oski Waa Waa! Holy Makinaw! Tigers! Eat'em Raw! thing is a bit short bus.

As is blaming the woes on repealing a tax on car owners. Blaming the woes on the spending habits of of one David Miller is a good start however.

I don't have access to the payroll of City Hall but I'd imagine there are plenty of pencil pushers that aren't incharge of core service that make a nice wage and the city would do fine without. But these are real people with real families and to put them out of work would be heartless. Granted that's what goes on in the private sector all the time. Why is the public sector so special?

Was that needed Jack?

So you guise are in denial that perhaps Toronto has a spending problem? You really think every civil servant is worth their bloated salary and every service the city provides is sacrosanct? Not sure I would agree with some of these proposals but I suppose tough decisions need to be made. I actually don't think a steep tax hike can be avoided at this point.

I've heard it said that if the NFL comes to Toronto you can kiss the Ti-Cats and the Argos goodbye so maybe you're right. The CFL is very popular out west. Perhaps because, like M Dancer said in regards to many parts of the US, there isn't a whole lot to do there. BTW a $10 Beer isn't warm and flat. The prices at an Argos game aren't that expensive. Well at least compared to the Jays, Raptors and Leaves. Under the new ownership, the Argos are actually a fairly well run club.

I picked 70,000 because no NFL stadium is less than that figure, I do believe. That's why if the NFL moved up to Toronto they'd have to build a new stadium. I'm not researching Superbowl prices but I do remember hear that in the latest Superbowl in Dallas people paid $800 to sit in temporary seating. The seats ended up being not available for them. I'm pretty sure the average Superbowl price is over a few grand.

Well the 100+ Stadium I'm talking about is Ann Abour Michigan. Closer to Northeast than Midwest. So you're saying people in the US go watch football because they have nothing else to do? You're saying there's so much to do in parts of Canada? You're thesis was that Canadians love football as much as Americans do and I don't buy it. I'll agree it's very popular here, just not as popular. You're never going to get 70,000 people to come to a CFL game in the GTA, you just aren't. I don't think we value sports nearly as much in Canada as in the US. College Sports draws flies up here, in the US there are two networks devoted to College sports I can get. One devoted just to a conference (The Big 10). Here's the best evidence I can show to you to prove this. For Game 7 of the Stanley Cup someone paid $7,000 a seat to see that game. Hockey is the most popular sport in Canada, no question. It's not uncommon for Superbowl tickets to for for multiple thousand dollars. Do you know anyone that would pay more than a few hundy to see a CFL game? Anyone? I went to the 2004 Grey Cup and got the ticket given to me.

You're going with that? I guess it's partially true. The attendance in places like Miami for sports is pretty abysmal. They can always go to the beach. But New York sells out their NFL games. Austin, Texas is a pretty happening place. USC Trojans sell out the Olympic Coliseum. Buffalo is a stones throw from the GTA and those people are dirt poor and they still come out to watch the Road kill Bills. Football is ingrained in their culture as of late like hockey has been in ours. To deny it is to have blinders on.

Yeah streaming sports in Canada is pretty dreadful. When the Dolphins aren't playing on any TV channel I get (I refuse to pay for NFL Sunday Ticket) I go to Justin.tv. But it's always pretty bad quality. channelsurfing.net was better but that was shut down. You can get live sports streamed on XBL in the US right? Our CRTC is horribly restrictive on the type of content we get online in Canada.

Dood that's a sweeping statement. Do you have blanket opinions like that about everything?