The morning after the night before, which is to say barely 24 hours after Rob Ford offed TTC chief general manager Gary Webster, the city awoke Thursday, February 23, to news of another coup orchestrated by the brothers Ford – this one to control the airwaves.
Mayor Rob and Councillor Doug were announced as the new hosts of The City, Newstalk 1010’s call-in show. See ya later, Josh Matlow. Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Torontonians were also treated Thursday in the Globe to a front-page shot of the mayor and an op-ed piece inside extolling the virtues of subways and a plan to pay for them using parking fees. The guy who promised to build subways without a cent of taxpayers’ money now wants taxpayers to pay for it. Horrors.
Note to Ford Notion: it would take 25 years’ worth of parking fees to raise the billions the mayor needs to finance his subway scheme.
But back to that Newstalk business. I’m no communist, but seems to me the mayor is taking a page out of Che’s revolutionary handbook on how to win over the masses. Or is it the CIA’s?
The new Spanish-language radio program “Radio Ambulante” gathers voices
from around Latin America and the United States to showcase the untold
human stories behind issues such as immigration and kidnappings. Using a
network of journalists from around the Americas, the monthly program
fills a gaping hole in the radio landscape for Spanish speakers. We’re
joined by Radio Ambulante executive producer Daniel Alarcón, the
acclaimed author of the novel "Lost City Radio"; and by Annie Correal, a
Radio Ambulante producer who tells her family’s story of using radio to
convey messages to her kidnapped father in Colombia. 
The morning after the night before, which is to say barely 24 hours after Rob Ford offed TTC chief general manager Gary Webster, the city awoke Thursday, February 23, to news of another coup orchestrated by the brothers Ford – this one to control the airwaves.