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If you want to talk about why Ford Nation is still a thing, you have to talk about poverty. You have to talk about how Toronto has allowed parts of the city with the best transit and the most jobs to become wildly unaffordable for pretty much anyone who didn’t win the privilege lottery. You also have to talk about how there are some politicians who don’t really care about any of this, because the people most affected by the city’s inequality don’t vote anyway.

This is important. Until people in the East and West feel less disenfranchised by the political system, people like Ford will always come out on top. At the very least he seems to pay heed to this group while he votes against their best interests.

This is a great set of photographs.

Because the Sun published one of the most offensive comics I’ve seen in a long time.

Quite the bombshell. Ghomeshi has hired the same PR firm as Michael Bryant.

Ottawa lawyer Barbara Winters describes trying to save Cpl. Nathan Cirillo after he was shot yesterday.

Look at me linking to Margaret Wente.

These photos are pretty incredible. Tippi Hedren and her husband Noel Marshall decided to live with a lion, briefly, after encountering them in Africa while filming a movie and wanting to make a movie to raise awareness about their endangered status.

If you are voting for Tory for any reason other than “I like that guy” you are a god damn chump.

My co-workers wife is running a crowd funding campaign to help launch her Spring 2015. If you are a lady you should check out her stuff.

A follow-up of sorts to their previous article about polling in the city election.

If Doug had even a chance in this election those Etobicoke and Scarborough bars need to be much higher – since he can’t get any downtowners. Doug may have that ever so “scary” second place heading – but he can’t be your mayor. It’s what we all expected – the conservatives are splitting the burbs folks. It’s the overall downtown pinko-commie embrace of former Ontario PC leader John TOry, that will make this a snooze fest come election night. No complaining about “burbs vs. downtown” this time you bike riding elitists – your geography is voting John Tory.

When I knew the Clippers were drafting me, the first thing I did was type Donald Sterling’s name into Google. The first hit that came up was “Donald Sterling is a racist.” I read an article on how he didn’t want minorities to live in his apartment buildings. My first thought was, Wow this guy is really, really a racist … how is he an owner of an NBA team? My second thought was, Wow, these articles are from 2003 and 2008. I guess everybody already knows about this stuff and just doesn’t care.

Blake Griffen writes about his former boss Donald Sterling.

“Rob Ford made us embarrassed to be from Toronto; Doug Ford makes us ashamed.”

Ars Technica, it’s the John Siracusa review. Please.

A couple of months ago a very good friend of mine turned to me as if she had a deep secret. She premised the statement with shame. It was one of those non-verbal cues of uncomfortable realization that I inherently understood. Rendering her incapable of mouthing the full words for a few moments, blistering her sentences with falters and a fusillade of, “how do I?” and then, “okay, so—” and then pausing, again, until finally, she said—“I don’t like it when people compliment you. I feel strange about myself when someone does.”

Before we start our journey, I want to congratulate Danielle Smith in Alberta, Adrian Dix in BC, Tim Hudak and almost every person running in the Quebec elections on becoming Premier. And of course best wishes to our neighbour to the south and President Romney… Is what I would say, if polls were actually accurate.

A fascinating article about polling and this election.

If you want to vote by polling to date – well then know that John Tory will definitely be our next mayor – if you want that Toronto, then vote for him. Olivia has a possible but not probable path – it’s a long shot – but if you want her Toronto, then vote for her. Doug has no shot, he is stuck in the suburban mud and has no room to grow. He simply has no path to victory.

Emphasis is mine. If you are a left-leaning voter in the city there is really only one choice in this election. And she’s not an old rich White guy.

I love it when a hip hop artist ends up on Bullseye. Jesse Thorn loves his hip hop.

I am still madly in love with my iPad mini, but I use it more or less exclusively to read D&D PDFs and surf on the internet in bed. I find the size more comfortable than the full sized iPad.

The Whiteness Project is a multiplatform investigation into how Americans who identify as “white” experience their ethnicity.

He’s so damn funny, and his jokes are all about politics and race and all that good stuff. There is so much to quote, but where would I even start?

I really wish I could make it out to this tonight.