If you are able (or care to) get past the Globe and Mail’s paywall you might find Marcus Gee’s column today informative. It is headlined A circus in Toronto that’s too sad to be funny. What is interesting in Gee’s take is that, yes, the Mayor is a source of silly bombast and a catalyst for confusion, but that the whole Council is shamefully indecisive and uncaring. They don’t need Rob Ford to mess up. Council has, as Gee said, spent a year fussing about whether to keep three elephants at the zoo here in Toronto or to ship them somewhere. They have decided, against the advice of staff incidentally, to send the animals to California. Poor elephants. You may need no prompting to recall the plastic bag follies. Marcus Gee
