Toronto Mayor Rob Ford ticketed, allegedly for public intoxication, in Vancouver

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@halloween_jack_

Yes, by all means, let’s decorously look away and busy ourselves with something less objectionable, such as steampunk Legos or something involving a banana, and maybe by the time the next election rolls around, we may have convinced ourselves that Ford is a boisterous but essentially harmless buffoon a la Chris Farley (before his revolving-door-rehab cycle that eventually led to his death) and that Toronto could do worse. Or, you know, we could discuss whether amalgamation was that good of an idea in the first place.

Why discuss amalgamation? Because maybe by the time the next election rolls around we may have convinced ourselves that amalgamation can be undone? If you’re seriously interested in thinking about the future, it would be best to stop thinking about whether amalgamation was a good idea and start thinking about how to make things better in the post-amalgamation state.