An interesting take on how to achieve cost savings within City Hall, although Philip Hochstein’s membership would likely be the beneficiaries of any decision to contract out, thereby defining his piece as self-serving rather than sensible.  Now while I for one am not a union activist by any stretch of the imagination, I do not believe in ripping up collective agreements as Hochstein seems to be advocating.

And lastly, try and guess who had the audacity to post this on their website:

“So, over the course of the last month, I have noticed a preponderance and entertaining seep of personal questions from many of you, so I thought I would answer some of them here, to show you that my critics are wrong:  I am, quite frankly, an open-book–I have no agendas and represent no one except me.  Though, I am guarded of my most personal feelings most of the time…

Here are the top ten, in no particular order (some of these are hysterical, well, at least to me…)

1) From Lana, Joliette, PQ. “Are you married? I have a friend in Vancouver who loves your look!”

Believe it or not I sent this individual a note a couple of weeks back complementing him on some of his recent writings and wishing him and his family a happy holidays (hoping to perhaps get in the spirit of the season and bury the hatchet, so to speak).  But after reading over such a list that contains such an implausible “query” (placed in the number one position, no less), I think that I might focus on more likely scenarios, such as this for example.