Wag the Doug

After six years of Doug-wagging, Allison and Jonathan have learned a few things.

Live (on tape) from the intersection of Richmond and Spadina, it’s the fifth annual(ish) Douggie Awards, celebrating the most surreal and mendacious moments of the past year in Ford.

Who doesn’t love an ice-cold beer from a bar, a pub, a liquor store… a gas station?

When the Speaker decreed that keffiyehs were verboten at Queen’s Park, even Doug Ford agreed that that was a bad call. But that came in the midst of a hotly-contested by-election in the 905 — and now that it’s finished, so is his party’s long nightmare of uncharacteristic open-mindedness.

This month, Allison and Jonathan don their leotards and consider Ontario politics’ new experimental era.

Judicial independence is a foundational principle of Canadian democracy. Doug Ford sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.

At this time of year, we’d normally pine for spring.

Doug Ford plans to uproot the Ontario Science Centre from the iconic Don Mills home it’s occupied since 1969. But what is the Science Centre other than its iconic Don Mills home?