City councilor to dead cyclists: it's your fault!

Jerrold, in spite of what your spell-check may tell you, Toronto has councillors not councilors.

Speller, open any good dictionary and you'll find that both councilor and councillor are accepted spellings. The distinction is American vs. UK English.

I taught English for two years overseas, and picked up a number of American English habits during that time, some of which I still exhibit from time to time.

Thanks for coming out :)

Once again the councillor representing my riding had showed his true colors. And next election, once again, he will be elected by a large majority of the people here in our ward. I just can't understand it.

Relentless! Busted! Fixed!

Back to dead cyclists?

This was such a ridiculous statement, I just had to laugh out loud.
Get some cyclists together and blcok some traffic around town...just for grins and to show him who the roads "belong" to.
What a dickhead.

Wow, something that actually makes me angrier than the TTC ad campaign, and in the same week, too. Amazing.

Thanks for publishing the e-mail address, Drewmac. Time to make my voice heard.

Jerrold: your spelling is THE BOMB. Let no one say different!

I got hit by a car on Bloor last summer while riding my bike. It was at that point that I realized roads were built for cars, buses and trucks.

The only way to get Ford out might be to persuade a former MP/MPP to run for Council - a new face is not getting it done. According to articles I have read, Ford seems to be extremely active in the interests of his ward constituents - obviously to the exclusion of any Torontonian who lives in any other ward - which is why at large councillors or multi-member, larger wards might be an idea. However, all politics are local and being the most local guy in Toronto keeps him re-elected.

I sent mr. ford a scathing email yesterday regarding his comment in the paper. he called an hour later to explain himself. he didn't do a very good job of it though. i also learned he drives a gas-guzzling jeep to work everyday because 'there's no other way for him to get into the city'. way to go at setting a good example. perhaps his time would be better spent advocating public transit rather than mouthing off to the media. no wonder public transit/bike lanes are in such a poor state - city hall is run by wankers like him.

Marta, it's unfair to hold other councillors to account for Rob Ford's actions. There are a lot of losers down at city hall but Ford is one-of-a-kind bad.

Mark, that's probably true. The problem, though, is that Ford's dad was a popular MPP there and he died recently. So Ford likes to play that for all it's worth (I kid you not, the first bullet in his campaign literature was "Son of the late Doug Ford." In fact, you could just follow the link Jerrold posted to see that it's also in the first sentence of his biography.)

You're also correct that he has a reputation for being a very hands-on local councillor. But I've heard from secondary sources that he pays almost all his attention to the homeowners in his ward and when he does talk to the tenants he will boldly lie about his position on issues that are traditionally important to tenants (the majority of tenants in his ward are newcomers who aren't as politically savvy as the homeowners who have been here a lot longer and learned the "system".)

Neil McIntyre said (with tongue in cheek I assume)
>I got hit by a car on Bloor last >summer while riding my bike. It was at >that point that I realized roads were >built for cars, buses and trucks.

I was hit in 2004 by a car while I was walking on, wait for it... the sidewalk. I guess this means sidewalks are for cars too, eh Rob Ford? I guess, at the end of the day, it was my own fault for leaving bed.
Christ, I hate the sense of entitlement drivers have. What is it about a steering wheel that turns people into raving lunatics? I suffered from this when I used to drive. Crazy road rage, the feeling that everyone is slowing you down and is a moron (which many are but that is for another blog). I mean, is 5 seconds of slowing down or waiting going to ruin your life? The dude who nailed me was trying to make a light and save himself 30 seconds so he floors it out of a gas station over the sidewalk and dislocates my shoulder, tears my biceps tendon and gives me whiplash. Turned out costing him alot more time than 30 seconds.
However, leave it to our injustice system to give this guy a walk. He was found guilty but had no sentence or fine. At trial his lawyer grilled me trying to insinuate I ran out in front of an jumped onto his car. Puh-lease! Yeah, it's a new sport called "mess yourself up real bad". It has all the great rewards of surgery, recuperation and being houseridden. I suffer everyday still because my shoulder will never be the same and he doesn't even get a fine.
Cyclists, pedestrians and dogs beware! You are a motorist target and mean nothing to the law or our councillors.