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Mayor Mel was there for the opening, and Mayor Miller was here this week when news broke about the possible closing of the Sheppard subway line. Even the thought that a subway line could be retired within six years of opening is crazy. Torontoist feels the need to visit the Sheppard line and see the cool art that exists in the stations, before it becomes a Leon's.

Toronto has an unusual problem: too many mayors' offices. After the dying years of the last century saw Metro's five cities and one borough reduced into a single bureaucratic mess, the city was left with the prickly issue of what to do with the palatial digs of Alan Tonks and six mayors left sitting barren in the far-flung civic centres and City Halls throughout the megacity (which, when pronounced with the proper cynical inflection, rhymes with mendacity).

According to a Compas poll, by way of 640 Toronto, MDM may not be making the high grades he did as a young and studious prep school kid, but he's still considered to be doing a better job than Mayor Mel Last Man(sic). He got average grades for garbage and tourism, and low ones for the Fantino fiasco. But he's got time yet to pull his grades up. And his socks.

More than 1,000 friends and family came out to support a departing Chief Fantino last night, bestowing him with honours and friendship bracelets. Okay, we lied about the friendship bracelets. But reading of the speeches tossed off by Fantino fans, TOist discovers not insight about the chief himself, but insight about Mel Lastman's work ethic. To wit:

Former Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman said Fantino was a tireless fighter for the city, pointing to the chief's appearance last Friday as city council debated the budget. "He was out there fighting for Toronto, trying to get more police on the streets. He was trying to keep Toronto safe. Who would do that their second-last day before leaving to fight so hard?" Lastman said.

First it was Mayor Mel, and now delegates sent in place of MDM have been dissed for dining on Dunedin, Florida's tab. Dunedin has long picked up the check for visiting TO dignitaries, in an effort to keep good relations afloat between the Jays' winter and summer homes. But Dunedin (pronounced Done-Eden, and not Dune-Din) is well nigh sick of it, and doesn't want to pay to entertain TO mayors or their minions anymore. As a return on the favour, TOist thinks Mel should invite the Mayor of Dunedin up to North York, all expenses paid.

, by Toronto artist Sean Yul Singer. Singer quotes Marianne Williamson to put in words what Miller's card is meant to be saying, beyond 'Happy Holidays from MDM and fam.' "Liberate Yourself by Liberating Others," he says. This clinches what Torontoist has long suspected about Miller's art taste (he also has some large Matisse prints hanging in his kitchen, or so a previous issue of TO Life tells us). He's a Fauvist at heart! In any event, kudos to MDM for not doing the 'family in matching christmas sweaters sitting by the fire grinning til their ears fall off' shot. Like so.