Trumped up indignation and outcry about what they consider as transgressions by City Council (meaning just about every action taken) is something that the City Caucus boys have mastered into an artform
The latest? The way in which they are characterizing these t-shirts – which are a lighter way of showing support for a policy that the party campaigned and were elected on – as akin to making fun of terminally ill patients. But, as they say, they try really hard.
Which brings me to my next point – their recent elevation of the mundane to the scandalous with regards to the noise exemption letter signed by Mayor Gregor Robertson.

Frances Bula's piece on Mike Magee is certainly garnering reactions across the spectrum.
Yesterday I wrote about how Frances Bula’s piece on Mike Magee, Gregor Robertson’s Chief of Staff, provided broader context on a group of individuals and their beliefs that those of just one man. Namely, that those that have surrounded the Mayor in his journey into the political realm are grounded in a foundational desire to initiate positive change to their community.
And today, two further reactions to Bula’s piece.
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | |||
“Perhaps it was my silk dress or the new perfume I’ve been wearing lately. When I asked Suzanne Anton what her New Year’s resolution was, she replied, “To kiss a pretty girl!” and pecked me on the cheek.” – Writer Emily Barca describing her encounter with the lone NPA City Councillor on New Year’s Eve.