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Tue Oct 9, 2012

From the cutting-room floor: On John Parker

BY: The Keenan Wire

I am a man of many words. Too many. My long-suffering editor needs a chainsaw to take the column I file most weeks and make it fit into the print edition of The Grid. Here’s a paragraph cut from this Thursday’s column, presented without any other context:

How far gone are we? Strident pinkos in the public gallery cream their jeans whenever Deputy Speaker John Parker takes over. This unapologetic conservative—the man who stuck the dagger in the heart of the Jarvis bike lanes and was an MPP in Mike Harris’ Common Sense Revolution—has become a pin-up boy for leftist council-watchers simply because he appears to know and follow the rules and manages not to call anyone names while moderating council’s debates.

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Duckworth

I sat in the gallery and I thought that there was actually a speaker chairing the meeting. Then Frances Nunziata showed up and the name calling ensued. Sheesh!
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11:07 pm on October 11, 2012

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anon

Yup, Parker has some terrible policy ideas a lot of the time but at least understands the rules and decorum.
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2:58 pm on October 9, 2012

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