For the most part, this is good news for John Tory. However, it does open up a bit of a risk. Now that Nunziata no longer has a police gag request hanging over him, he may come out with very frank details about what actually happened. This may include embarrasing details that aren't specifically in violation of the law. Either that, or Nunziata will keep quiet and swallow a great deal of embarrasment himself.

I wish David Miller would commit to a TTC fare freeze. It's important to me and I think it's the best policy. Not that I think that any of the other candidates are more commited to the TTC than he is.

One thing that most people are unaware of is that Toronto Island isn't really an island. It's a peninsula. In the late 1800s a storm washed out the narrowest part of the peninsula that connected it to the rest of the mainland. The "island" was thus born. Establishing a fixed link would be only recreating what existed in nature long before man arrived on the scene.

Kathy Shaidle, author of the blog Relapsed Catholic seems to have switched to a different brand of Catholicism than the one I'm familiar with. She's somewhere between Supply Side Jesus and Gated Community Jesus.

What I (and many others) object to about multiculturalism (as the phrase is used in the Canadian political context) is that it’s intent is to be divisive. Multiculturalism is not people living, working, and partying together in peace from places all around the world. Multiculturalism is keeping Canadians partitioned into separate non-overlapping communities, each community practicing some form of caricature of their "native" culture such as their "community-leaders" deem it.

All this is reversible — Rudolf Guliani proved this in the 1990’s in New York City — if anyone cares to admit the problem exists and is willing to differentiate between the different types of homelessness we are facing. Many don’t care to make the distinction, either because of a certain type of social myopia or because, as mentioned at the top of this posting, they see it method to get money spent on their people for their issues. These people do not want to fix our homeless problem: they want to install it.

I hear Miller is a big hypocrite (surprise!). He told Yonge & Eg residents he opposed the Minto scheme, then went and supported it behind their backs. More union-loving tactics? Anyway, Miller's new best friend is arch-NIMBY RFK, Jr - must be where he's learning his two-faced tricks.

The fatal flaw of the campaign seems to be the decision to present Tom as a friendly, smiling, happy guy. Do you think of "happy" and "friendly" when the name "Tom Jakobek" is mentioned? I don't. I doubt many people do. By trying to present him in that light, the ads themselves seem deceptive. We know Tom Jakobek and those ads are no Tom Jakobek.

What makes this mayoral race interesting is that the implosion of the Barbara Hall campaign. Just a few weeks ago she had as good as a sure thing as one could get; now she’ll be lucky to come third place. Why this happened is somewhat interesting, a little window into the soul of the Canadian electorate. For the last ten years (and probably long before that) Canadians have been happy to have their country, their provinces and their cities run on autopilot. Witness, for example, the back-to-back election wins of brain-addled refrigerator-booster Mel Lastman. Toronto is a big city with big city problems that require sharp management, innovative approaches and not a little Gordian-knot cutting to solve. Nonetheless, we were happy enough to have good-old Mel up there, standing on a pile of telephone books telling us that we’re great — just look at all the fiberglass Moose standing about! World Crass, baby.

Miller's union connections are becoming more scrutinized as the polling date nears and other candidates hone their attacks on him. Interestingly Barbara Hall seems to be dropping like a stone and doesn't warrant a mention among the "front runners" any more. The tone of the media seems to be that it is a close race between Miller and John Tory. Hall didn't even show up to a debate yesterday - hardly the best move for someone who needs to get her campaign back on track.

When the special interests that hope to profit from the airport expansion try to tell you that you don't have a say, or that it's too late, tell them they're wrong. Don't fall for their scare tactics. This decision is entirely in the hands of elected officials, and they are responsible. Make them respect your wishes.