Frank Touby

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

Taxpayers lost as Ford boys used position for personal gain

What do you think, poor Toronto taxpayer? Enough of the crooked Ford boys! It’s overdue that the outrageous pair be removed from city hall and an array of  ethical breaches on behalf of their family corporation, Deco Labels, should drive ...

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The Brothers Ford should be toast at city hall

Enough of the crooked Ford boys! It’s overdue that the outrageous pair be removed from city hall and an array of  ethical breaches on behalf of their family corporation, Deco Labels, should drive a stake through their benighted careers in ...

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Sign peace treaties but never free trade deals

Frank Touby — Canada probably should avoid entering into any treaties. The only exceptions would be those where we declare peace between ourselves and possible opponents. But trade deals? Out of the question! Currently our ruler in Ottawa, the secretive ...

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A common-sense resolution to revive our economy

There is a solution to bring our province and Canada out of this depression that started in 2007. It’s a common-sense resolution that would pay off big for most of us. Let’s take a look at it. It’s not really ...

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Rob Ford’s alleged butt-grab victim tries to butt into his spot

Frank Touby — Dreadlocked-candidate Sarah Thomson claims a poll puts her in 5th place, rising above Councillor Karen Stintz and compares herself to ex-mayor David Miller in the early stages of his campaign. In a release, Thomson, who was laughed ...

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Extraordinary video casts doubt on Kennedy assassination fable

Frank Touby — It’s been a little over 50 years since John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered by assassins in Dallas. Everyone over the age of reason during that tragedy—notably except for the father of George W. Bush—knows where he or ...

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The excoriation of a newspaper mogul and walking Thesaurus

Frank Touby — So now “they” have stripped Lord Conrad Black of his major Canadian honour: membership in the elite Order of Canada. It was granted to him based upon his great success as a media mogul whose holdings were ...

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Ignore Waterfront Toronto’s Gardiner-bashing staff

There’s a lot to wonder about regarding Waterfront Toronto’s emergence as a voice against improving the Gardiner Expressway by tearing it down east of Jarvis. Although the announcement Feb. 20 that WT’s board endorses the demolition option, it was driven ...

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Touby column

There is a prevailing viewpoint that private businesses can do nearly anything better, cheaper and quicker than any government. If there’s a buck to be made, a smart businessperson will always trump an over-stuffed government operation composed of fat-cat bureaucrats, ...

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Like NAFTA, Euro free trade threatens to enslave us

He was about as presidential as Kermit the Frog. But there was great wisdom in what this former candidate for the U.S. Presidency in 1992 said during the campaign. Regarding what turned out to be NAFTA, Ross Perot predicted: “There ...

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