(Part 4) Top products from r/toronto

> We are using the Charter, as I said, to uphold the Constitution.

Amazing how Caroline Mulroney, Ontario's AG, can say that with a straight face. This is a clause that specifically and exclusively suspends portions of the Constitution. It's in the goddamn name of the clause: "notwithstanding". You are using a legal avenue to temporarily strike down parts of the Constitution. It does not mean you are "upholding the Constitution".

> [Des Rosiers] said the Conservative government could end up having to effectively run the city if the legislation passes, 25 councillors are elected, and then the province loses at the Court of Appeal or in the Supreme Court.

Oh, I'm sure Ford would love to see that happen.

> Liberal MPP Nathalie Des Rosiers, one of the three co-editors of the 1,168-page Oxford Handbook of the Canadian Constitution, hushed the chamber Thursday with pointed questions for Attorney General Caroline Mulroney.

https://www.amazon.ca/Oxford-Handbook-Canadian-Constitution/dp/0190664819/

Pretty sure late merging is the most efficient method in the case of driving up alongside a row of stopped cars. I could be wrong, but I read OP as being in moving traffic with open space behind them. If that's the case, late merging is not likely the most efficient method.

Also, this is a great read: http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/0307277194

Or buy this and you are good to go.

In the story last night he mentioned that Leslie's son asked why he had all of these Hardy Boy books on his personal library book shelf. He asked if he read them as a child and the father said "Well, I wrote them" and the son said "I used to borrow these books from my friends". I don' t know if that part is true but there is a book about the history of this which I might try to grab from the library -

https://www.amazon.ca/Secret-Hardy-Boys-McFarlane-Stratemeyer/dp/0821415476/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1500647094&sr=8-3-fkmr1&keywords=hardy+boys+ghost+writers

I recommend you do some reading.

https://www.amazon.ca/Mans-Most-Dangerous-Myth-Fallacy/dp/0803946481

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Lie_with_Statistics

Nope, this bad boy. Although I have read war and peace it was such a long time ago I can't remember many details of the story.

You mean you don't have this edition?

http://www.amazon.com/The-Gentrification-Mind-Witness-Imagination/dp/0520280067

you should read The Orenda

This is album cover material!

Also, potential fodder for the Nuns Having Fun calendar series. If you haven't checked them out, they're a hoot.

This kind of thing is not new at all. You should read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Mass-Migration-Displacement-Coercion/dp/0801448719

Because I just finished reading this.


Why is working illegally human smuggling? If they were smuggled in then sure, but Its not automatic.

Montreal also had a period of amalgamation (actually more like an annexation) between 2002 and 2006 and the politicians at the time used Toronto as an inspiration (but for different reasons). Then several suburbs on the island voted and de-merged in 2006 (mostly the ones with a significant English-speaking population) but some also didn't. Was is worth it? Peter Trent in the Merger Delusion argues it was a disaster that will cause residents to pay for billions of dollars in extra costs and the merger has not achieved any of its goals.

Montreal also has a regional-level government for services like transit, infrastructure, etc that everyone on the island contributes to whether you are directly governed by the City of Montreal or a separate suburb. It could be argued that Toronto needs much better regional governance for long term goals - Metrolinx and the province aren't enough.

I haven't done enough reading to know if amalgamation is truely beneficial or not, but what I do know is that as long as Canada's major cities lack additional revenue powers from the province, they will forever be behind in achieving their highest potential. Provinces and their politicians have a duty to represent the whole province and that includes the rural areas. There's no way you can adequately treat both equally when they have such different issues and needs. The GTA needs more powers to raise its own revenues to fund things like transit expansion. A book called Urban Nation even argues that the GTA should be its own province.

Ariel Levy's Female Chauvinist Pigs - ta da! Women are just as complicit as men are in propagating gender roles, though I don't agree with everything Levy argues.

Reading this book completely changed how I saw drug addiction. Most of these people are trying to escape the trauma of extreme child abuse.

Maybe take a look at this documentary to get a little perspective on the current situation in the Congo. Canadians are among the top consumers of electronic goods, and it's the materials used to make these good that come from "blood minerals." There are also a few articles on the subject here, here and here. The west plays a large part in the violence in Western African nations. Canadians should at least realize that our lifestyles contribute (whether directly or indirectly) to some degree to political situations in third world countries.

And to say "it's shit because they made it shit" is so ignorant I don't even know where to start. Perhaps take a look through this book to realize how fucked up the Congo was from its earliest days of colonization.

In terms of fighting gang violence and reducing levels of violent crime and felony crime this is the WRONG policy. More and more studies/stats are showing that increased police presence and the targeting of violence hot spots and those people exiting and entering them actually works to reduce crime.

In New York City, increased policing (+ targeted policing tactics) has led to an 80% decrease in felony crimes since 1991. This is double what the rest of the U.S.A has seen. Say what you want but this is remarkable.

Source: Read this book. He statistically eliminates plausible variables we all associate with crime (poverty, single parents, education, race, etc...) and concludes that those variables are all exogenous and it's policing that matters.

Yes, and the damage to her reputation was immediate even though Rob Ford's coke use had been an open secret for years beforehand. There is no upside for women in pitting yourself against a man with more power, access to media, lawyers, and an organisation that will defend the man against allegations by smearing the victim. Many people know this, this is why they don't immediately come forward after being assaulted. (This is also why all the sexual assault scandals in the Hockey world only came out when the victims had more media power themselves)http://www.amazon.ca/Crossing-Line-Violence-Assault-National/dp/077107560X