Frank Touby

By Frank Touby – The multifaceted errors of amalgamation and the team that brought Toronto to this sad state of dysfunction are becoming more apparent as time goes on. Big is not best unless you’re also a big warlord like ...

Tainted meats weren’t produced by Shopsy’s or sold in its restaurants By Frank Touby – No listeriosis-contaminated meats are or have been served at Shopsy’s Restaurants, says owner Gavin Quinn. “We share a brand with Maple Leaf Meats,” Quinn says, ...

By Frank Touby – Paulette and I had just been married at St. Michael’s Cathedral after 19 years of “dating” from the same bedroom. My last “solid” job, as a senior editor at Financial Post, was several years behind me—a ...

By Frank Touby – For a band of so-called socialists, David Miller and his council followers are looking an awful lot like neocons. They’re falling in bed with big business at every turn. Take a gander at this monstrous scheme ...

Will she be canned from Pork Authority or tapped as a Tory MP candidate? By Frank Touby – Is the Toronto Port Authority’s top gun, Lisa Raitt, about to be canned by her reportedly split board? Or is she about ...

By Frank Touby – It’s axiomatic that silt floats to the top of the gutter. It’s lighter than water, mainly constituted just of air; the remainder of its composition is somewhat unknown, though its primary constituent is crap. Silt is ...

“You can get so much information you can’t tell anything” By Frank Touby – The city’s new lobbyist registry got me wondering how they did things in my friend Slovo’s former part of the world. As usual, I got to ...

Orphan’s Park between Adelaide & Richmond, east of Power likely new off-leash spot, says councilor’s office By Frank Touby – Corktowners have been having a bitch of a time getting an off-leash park for their dogs. And they’re accusing city ...

By Frank Touby – The much-criticized Corus building taking a primo lakeshore spot at the foot of Jarvis Street is a finalist in the claimed “prestigious” Office Lease of the Year “REX” award from the National Association of Office and ...

Yes, we’re talking Toronto city council By Frank Touby – These dysfunctional bozos now want to waste scarce transit funds to decorate subway stations. Their monumental stupidity in pushing for outrageously pricey and inefficient streetcars—a boon only to the concrete ...