McBride’s McBride’s

Cut & Paste:

The first time McGrogan came to the Bakery he was nice enough. All man-to-man, you know? The sanctions had just been imposed, and I had responded with targeted criticism of him, which led him to visit the Bakery.

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Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign

There are forty-five people running for office right now, without wards, so everyone is running everywhere. In this sense, the abundance of signs isn’t so surprising, although it is getting tiresome now that we’re a month into it.

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The Document

7 pages of standard conservative priorities: population growth, business development strategies, more police and surveillance cameras, and mainly low-cost suggestions for dealing with street-level disorder.

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Case Study: Kingsway

Kingsway hosts some businesses that make it an auto hub, but several auto businesses have failed there, too. It has hosted some non-profits, and lost others, but it is not a service delivery hub. As a commercial zone, results are clearly mixed.

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Dear Ted,

I wasn’t there for the Ted years. While you were Mayor, I had little kids, my business wasn’t doing so hot, I was up early every day, and the bandwidth I had available for politics was provincial level and up.

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