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Showing posts with label gravy train. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gravy train. Show all posts

Thursday, July 21, 2011

@cityslikr on Team Ford's bullshit, and our complicity therein | #TOpoli




A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
– Winston Churchill

So over at his place, @cityslikr's on about the fact that politicians have an uneasy relationship with the truth, and the cynicism and disengagement that breeds.

Friday, January 7, 2011

Police budgets, and how a phony narrative gets manufactured

Earlier this week, the Star ran an essay in which the best mayor Toronto's had in the last half-century argues that there's plenty of wasteful spending in the police budget, and that if the Ford regime is serious about trimming fat and stopping the gravy train, there's lots of room to cut there.
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