Frank Touby

By Frank Touby – No matter who gets elected, it’s the civil service who actually are the government. At the most intrusive array of their powers and tasks, they’re the ones who’ll chase you for taxes, stuff you in prison, ...

Aim is to provide health service and care to all, including the marginalized, in “a loving way,” says Smitherman By Frank Touby – MPP George Smitherman, Ontario’s deputy premier, wore his health and long-term care minister hat Nov. 9 to ...

U.S. ambassador among passengers who had to cross on old ferry to Island, get frisked, then take a bus to a flight at Pearson on Porter Air plane By Frank Touby – The few passengers taking scheduled flights from Ottawa ...

Tasse backs the boondoggle By Frank Touby – You could tell when Steve Harper’s loose Cannon, Larry, populated the Toronto Port Authority (TPA) with appointees, how this was going to read. The long-awaited Roger Tassé report on the prospects for ...

The dysfunctional Toronto Port Authority gave another example of how it richly deserves to die. But now it’s a Tory pork barrel since Steve decided the money-losing operation that’s too lucrative to die should be his. It survives by taxing ...

Figure the Tassé study will keep the Toronto Pork Authority in power By Frank Touby – Don’t expect anything more from the Tassé “study” about the reprehensible Island airport than an attack on the evils of Paul Martin’s handling of ...

By Frank Touby – He was our great blond hope: The man with the broom; the man who was going to make a clean sweep at city hall and rid us of the civil-service ineptitude and backdoor dealings that peppered ...

Jim Lahey on Trailer Park Boys would have a party thinking up excretory terms to describe this one By Frank Touby – A fetid storm of outrage has blown ill at the beancounters’ biggest labour union, aka the Institute of ...

By Frank Touby – The recent raise for Toronto’s dysfunctional city council—a curse of the previous provincial government that was operated by yokels—is mere peanuts, according to my friend Slovo the shoemaker. He says he knows exactly why many politicians ...

By Frank Touby – While Neocons argue that government regulation is anathema to an effective marketplace, their masters in big business find it just the other way around. Having a government-regulated oligopoly is a sure way to wealth and power ...