Meet Doug Ford, next preem of Ontario

This will no doubt have the media bed-wetters in a tizzy. After all, Doug is the slightly more stable brother of former crack-head TO mayor Rob Ford, and surely you remember how relentlessly our "free press" hounded him to death.

In fact, Toronto Star intern Dan Dale did such a bang-up job on the Ford file that the Star dispatched him to Washington, complete with an actual paycheque and expense account, to become the official Donald Trump Fib Tracker.

Why a money-losing Canadian news platform would consider that a useful deployment of their dwindling resources is a question you'd have to ask them.

But back to Ford. Rob was relentlessly portrayed as a racist and misogynist bigot across the spectrum of our mainstream media.

That was mostly fake news.

Take a gander at this video of Rob Ford's funeral.

WTF?

I see brown people galore paying their respects to the racist. And women too!


Frankly, I didn't believe Doug could pull this off, but the Conservative leadership race was such a shit-show that anything was possible.

And here we are. Doug was the only candidate who had a chance at unseating Wynne. She could have easily whupped those females candidates, but Doug Ford is a new game.

Doug Ford will be the next premier of Ontario.


And that's not a happy thing.

Ontario's "police premier" throws in the towel

I know he originally styled himself the "education premier", but Dalton McGuinty became anything but.

Hiring neo-con economist Don Drummond was the pivot point.

Drummond was a long-time private sector economist whose recipe for economic resuscitation would look more than familiar to anybody who is acquainted with Tea Party doctrines.

Get tough on the public sector. Free up the rape-and-pillage finance sector. Good things are sure to follow.

So McGuinty got busy signing long term contracts with the two biggest police forces in the province, contracts that afford double digit wage increases over the next four years.

Then he took the gloves off. Doctors were the first ones singled out for a wage freeze. Teachers were next, and the entire universe of civil servants was on the agenda after that.

Meanwhile, it's come out that McGuinty shenanigans to relocate a couple of power plants to save a couple of Liberal Party stalwarts their seats in the legislature cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

Good-bye Dalton. Maybe Drummond's corporate connections can find you a nice corporate sinecure.

Or maybe you'll be the next OPP Commissioner.