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It's municipal politics, but no, seriously, follow this storyThis is the most exciting moment in Toronto's municipal politics since the megacity merger back in 1997. Nothing is inevitable, everything is in play, and Karen Stintz is about to either turn Rob Ford into a lame duck, or end her own short-term political career trying. It is wonderful and

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While I agree that connecting parties through the different levels of government *can* be tricky, the "only a Torontonian could connect the dots between these two based on the barest of ideological threads" comment is just silly. The media went on and on after the last federal election about how the Ford phenomenom, not to mention Ford's active support, assisted the Tories in breaking through the "Liberal Fortress" in the 416 (where the Tories had been locked out for years), helped them in the 905, and thus helped them achieve their majority. Whether it is true or not is for the political scientists to decide in retrospect, but but it was hardly a bare thread. The media, of course, prattles on about nonsense when trying to fill airtime or column-space, but even if the theories are untrue, they take on a national importance if repeated often enough. Similarly, by the time the Ontario provincial election cam around, Ford was stabbing himself in the back on an almost daily basis, and his troubles were widely credited in part with destroying Hudak's chances in the 416 (where only a short time earlier polls were saying that the PCs were looking at a breakthrough similar to their federal cousins.).

And it is not at all like comparing the Quebec Liberals and the federal Liberals, because those two solitudes share a name only, while the relationship between municipal politics and federal and provincial parties is hot, heavy and verges on incestuous.

And, yes, I feel a little tinge of sexiness upon reading your comments.