Historicist: "The city that nobody loves"
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The Daily Photoist: November 23, 2009
Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize. And then Ann Coulter's head exploded.
Dalton McGuinty proclaims "Family Day" stat holiday in February. This...wait, did he actually keep a promise this time? Wow.
Ontario economy projected to only grow 1.8% in 2008. You know what we need to get our economy humming again? Mass production of a car that runs on dandelions. I am just saying.
David Miller says the election shows that city residents are willing to pay higher taxes. However, he would have said this regardless of who won. If the Conservatives had swept Toronto, he would have said, "Well, this just goes to show that Torontonians want lower provincial taxes so they can afford to pay higher municipal taxes."
And Mats Sundin broke the Leafs' all-time scoring record last night as he and his team thrashed the Islanders 8–1.
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New York will have its revenge when the Rangers pwn the Leafs in November.
How the Islanders lost is still a mystery.
Props Gore and McGuinty! Their hair is about the same colour.
Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
^^^ I'm liking him less and less.
Miller's logic in his assumption is pretty astounding. Liberals raised taxes, and people voted in the Liberals once again, so they must like the higher taxes. It couldn't be that Toronto residents just didn't like what the competition had to offer or anything...
It's kind of odd that Gore won the peace prize... Don't those normally go to politicians who have created peace treaties and stopped wars?
I mean, good on him, but I suppose it makes as much sense as him winning the Oscar for best documentary when all they did was film him talking in front of a screen and then throw Mac ads in whenever they needed a break.
Also, yay Leafs. Keep up the non-disappointments.
Miller may also be noting that Toronto voted back a bunch of Liberals, even though McGuinty has been pretty blunt about saying that he's not willing to dip into his surplus in any meaningful way to help Toronto.
That works out well for McGuinty's new BFF, David Miller, who can push through his taxes on the premise that there's no chance of a Queen's Park bailout.
Considering that only 52% of eligible voters voted at all, and only 40% of those voted Liberal, it's impossible to say that the outcome of the vote represents much besides widespread apathy.
@Guest 2: A problem that wasn't helped by newspapers, proclaiming that voters had "forgiven" McGuinty for his broken promises, etc., in voting the Liberals back in. But hey, that's sloppy journalism for you.
Oops. Guest @ 3. Sorry.
I'm very much reminded of The Simpsons episode "Trash of the Titans":
Jonathan, I'm a Feb 17th baby too and am jazz about this. YEAH US!
Okay, nobody has said it so far, but that was a pretty awesome Pushing Daisies reference you put in there...
the nobel comittee explained their logic for awarding the prize on the topic of climate change (al is a co-winner) by saying that as climate change becomes more of an issue it will also result in more conflict in the world over scarce resources. therefore calling attention to the issue warrants the peace prize.