Toronto's new lost generation (Conservative-bashing editorial)

Toronto (Red) Star ^ | 03/03/06 | Carol Goar

[WOSG]

here's a 30 per cent chance the child's life will have begun in poverty. That compares to an 18 per cent probability in the rest of Canada.

There is a 25 per cent chance the infant's parents will split before his or her sixth birthday. Family disruption is a fact of life, even for toddlers. "

So Toronto is importing poverty and brkoen homes ... and there is NO suggestion to actually change this?!?

"It will require adequate English training for newcomers, which most school boards can't offer. The province's rigid education funding formula has forced them to skimp on everything that lies outside the standard curriculum."

Nothing wrong with that. Bilingual education is a proven failure.

[NZerFromHK]

But isn't Toronto also monarchist in the sense that monarchism is yet another stick that can be used to poke at the United States? Vancouver is ideologically leftist but I feel Toronto is probably acting contrarian in the sense that if the United States went pacifist tomorrow it would move conservative.

And I see travel guides such as Lonely Planet still describe Toronto as a politically and socially conservative place. Yikes!

[Heartofsong83]

Toronto is the worst of all worlds. It is not monarchist, but it hates EVERYONE else, from the 905 area suburbs (although less so today) to the rural hinterlands of Ontario to other provinces (especially Quebec and the West) to other countries. (At least that describes 70-80% of the population there)

Toronto is as far as it gets from conservative, either socially or fiscally. That travel guide is using information from 50 years ago.

[Heartofsong83]

Exactly. Even in a Conservative majority, there would be no Toronto members. The majority would come from picking off another 15-20 seats in Ontario, plus another 15 or so in Quebec, a few more in the West and perhaps in the Atlantic region.

[Heartofsong83]

That is racism - being used by the left, who usually cry tolerance!!! Oh the hypocricy!!!!!!

[NorthOf45]

That pretty much says it all.

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[Loyalist]

The Toronto Star editorial board can wax rhapsodical about the glories of Toronto's tolerance and diversity, from their enclaves in the Annex and Rosedale, because they don't have to live with it.

Set them loose in Jane-Finch, armed only with their supercilious attitudes, and let the denizens thereof tear them to pieces.

[TheMole]

But isn't Toronto also monarchist in the sense that monarchism is yet another stick that can be used to poke at the United States?

No, trendy pomo Toronto hates monarchism because that is part of the Old Canada, the actually existing historical nation. Toronto today is multiculturalist uber alles and wants to annihilate all traces of history befre the multi-culti age.

BTW, here's a picture of the drivellist responsible for the article. She's the one on the left. Original caption: Toronto Star reporter Carol Goar receives the 2005 Community Caring Award from Karen Murphy, Peel Branch Board Chair of the Canadian mental health Association. My caption: Yes, she looks like mental health might be an issue.