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Portrait Project: Augimeri’s Argument

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Sarah Lazarovic—curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada—is painting a portrait of a Torontonian every day. Each Monday, we’ll feature one of those portraits here. Suggestions for subjects welcome.
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Though Councillor Maria Augimeri endeared few to her cause last week when she told her constituents to shut up, she gained a few points back for taking up the peculiar but amusing phrase “the law is an ass.”

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  • torontothegreat

    Seriously, this woman is on f’n crack? Holocaust? Who votes for these people?
    http://www.cp24.com/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20080814/080814_augimeri_live/20080814/?hub=CP24Home
    Augimeri described the blast scene as a “Holocaust” numerous times during Thursday’s interview, brushing aside suggestions the term could be found offensive.
    “It is a holocaust of all proportions without the human element,” she said.

  • Solex

    Sorry,but I agree with her; it was a holocaust-of minor proportions because only one person died, that could have become a major one if most of the houses nearby were set on fire. Hundreds could have perished-what would you call it then?
    And also, I agree about the Queen Wast fire being a 9/11 like tragedy; it is one, because of all the bullshit corporate chains that will now set up shop there.

  • flashman

    ^^^is kidding, or a lunatic.

  • David Topping

    “Holocaust” is a really weird word to use, but it’s less offensive and less wrong if you dissociate it from the meaning it accrued after the Second World War. It literally means “wholly burnt” or “completely consumed by fire”—which still makes Augimeri’s claim that a big fire in North York was a “holocaust” an enormous exaggeration, but maybe not so crazy or so jaw-droppingly stupid.