Frank Touby

Frank Touby’s editorials, columns, articles, short stories

VIEWPOINT: Greedy Miller council cashes us in

Letting Hydro privatize its telecom, maybe selling Corktown’s proposed off-leash park, bringing in a money-losing second-rate olympics By Frank Touby – Greedy David Miller and his council gang are cashing in Toronto taxpayers’ properties to finance his out-of-control spending on ...

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Touby: Second-Rate Olympics R Us

By Frank Touby – Now, from the clowns at city hall, a new circus! Presenting… Olympics Lite! (Otherwise known as the Pan American Games.) What better way to take a broom to that feeling of less-than-world-class than to sweep up ...

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OPP busts its own lady dick and impounds its own car

Intelligence officer gets busted by her colleague, loses licence and her OPP-issued car for 7 days By Frank Touby — Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Intelligence Officer Heidi Fischer is probably having her brain-waves tested. Or at least pounding her head ...

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Tory thugs stack Island Airpork

Airline of the elites avoids the cattle-call hassles of traveling through Pearson By Frank Touby – Brutish John Baird, Stephen Harper’s transportation minister, has blessed a tobacco industry mouthpiece with a saddle on Toronto taxpayers’ backs as part of the ...

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Bell hell: Unsupportable support

You might more accurately think of it as Bell Philippines, or Bell India, because that’s where the jobs Canadians should be doing have been exported. And if they were doing a great job—better than Canadians could do—it might be understandable. ...

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Lights still on at Golden Griddle on Jarvis

Deal to sell lease to Montreal’s O. Noir restaurant falls through By Frank Touby – Contrary to a report in The Bulletin, Golden Griddle at 77 Lower Jarvis remains in business. There had been a deal with O. Noir restaurant ...

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Viewpoint: Are Canadians really this stupid?

Complaints that votes “didn’t count” rings hollow when all member of the proposed coalition were elected By Frank Touby – Are Canadians really this stupid? My blog is getting scores of replies from voters who claim their votes don’t count ...

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Viewpoint: At last, an end to Harper and his gang

More voters wanted a progressive government than a Neocon regime By Frank Touby –  Editorial minds at National Post have adhered to the Neocon lying point that because the separatist Bloc Quebecois is backing the pending coalition government likely to ...

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Frank Touby: Chin up! Things really are much better than they seem

I was 14 when I heard the devastating news that a bunch of judges in Washington D.C. had declared that American children would have to share their classrooms with monkeys. In my then largely redneck town of Miami, Florida where ...

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Frank Touby: When ‘conservative’ was good

By Frank Touby – There was a time not too long ago when “conservative” stood for something honest and good. It described a political and social position that built North America. It meant honest labour was a high virtue, along ...

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