Morning Brew: November 27th, 2007

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Photo: "the happy couple" by blogTO Flickr pooler -stacey-.

Your morning news roundup for Tuesday November 27th, 2007:

City council members have been infighting over office-related expenses, and for once I actually think oddball councillor Rob Ford is right. The city is spending our time and money investigating and reprimanding Ford for not claiming his work expenses (he pays for his own supplies).

Children see, children do. Kids hockey sometimes gets too violent.

Remember the CBC show The Friendly Giant? Puppets Gerome and Rusty were part of the CBC Museum collection, but the owner has decided to remove them. I heard CBC Radio mention this yesterday, but Jian failed to mention why.

Ontario and Quebec are negotiating an interprovincial free trade deal. We get poutine and hockey players that don't suck in exchange for stuff we can get from China cheaper than they can.

There will be no food cart purchase, and no bottled water tax. Most of us could have predicted these outcomes.

It looks like there's an interesting article about in the Globe and Mail about the creation vs. evolution in education issue, but I'll never know because I refuse to pay for my internet-based news.

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As usual the Globe content blocks can be circumvented through Google News.

Try this:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071127.wlgolden27/BNStory/lifeFamily/home

Posted by: Matt at November 27, 2007 9:34 AM

^^^ Google refuses to pay too? NICE.

Posted by: Jerrold at November 27, 2007 9:39 AM

It's the information age, my friend, and we are all of us sailing under pirate flag. Yarrrrrr. :)

Posted by: Matt at November 27, 2007 9:48 AM

Ford's an idiot. He claims he's saving taxpayers' money but in the process his constituents suffer from the lack of support he owes them as a direct result.

Posted by: Jonathan at November 27, 2007 10:16 AM

If by "support" you mean paperclips and staples, then yes, I agree ;)

Posted by: Jerrold at November 27, 2007 10:18 AM

Yeah John ... you've got to hate councillors who foot their own office supplies bills. Only a complete nut job that's completely unfit for public duty would do such a thing.


Posted by: sigh at November 27, 2007 1:09 PM

The City is spending their time and our money trying to figure out why a city councillor didn't spend more of our money?! OUR. CITY. IS. SO. F*#KED. UP.

Posted by: Jerrold at November 27, 2007 1:11 PM

The bottle water tax was proposed specifically so that Miller could kill it.

Posted by: sigh at November 27, 2007 1:11 PM

Here's the problems I have with Ford, 1) if he really is paying for this stuff out of his own pocket then be transparent about it and show money flows, do it in a fashion that can be audited so that the public can be sure that's what really is happening and not that this is being used as a mechanism to launder illegal campaign contributions/bribes, I'm not saying that's necessarily happening just that we have no way of knowing. 2) do we really want the job of city councillor to only open to people who are able to pony up several grand of their own money every year to run an office?

Posted by: Chester Pape at November 27, 2007 1:30 PM

Here's the Gemini Awards puppet skit, if you're curious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL-bLZzihbw

Posted by: Gemini Puppets at November 28, 2007 8:07 AM

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