简介：the latest columns by john barber published by the globe and mail

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The Globe and Mail - John Barber Columns

Police say 'nay' when it comes to disclosing cost of

jbarber@globeandmail.comnow that toronto police have shown how well they can control unruly crowds using bicycles, why are so many of them still riding around on horses? no other municipal service, after decades of relentless budget pressures, still permits itself such expensive fripperies. by any rational standard, cutting the mounted unit is the first ... (315 天前)

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Hail to the chief for his deft handling of the Tamil

jbarber@globeandmail.comdo you remember where you were when the tamils closed the roads? i was driving north up spadina, just off the gardiner, and nimbly deked west in time to avoid a six-hour jam. the rest i forget - as will, soon enough, everybody else with a similar story of minor inconvenience. ... (315 天前)

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Upbeat Yankee doodling dandy picture of Toronto

jbarber@globeandmail.comyou may be in recession, but richard florida is not. the man is irrepressible. tireless promoter of the so-called ''creative economy,'' best-selling economist and famous would-be canadian - after living here less than two years, this arch jersey boy says ''we'' with an assurance that still evades michael ignatieff - professor flor... (315 天前)

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Nameless neighbourhood seeks an end to its shame

jbarber@globeandmail.comif it was a character in a book, the neighbourhood in search of a name would be a classic existential hero. it's more than a century old, as old as the annex, but nobody knows what to call it. it doesn't even know what to call itself, despite hesitant efforts over the years to acquire a name. ... (315 天前)

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Word on the street: vascillation

jbarber@globeandmail.com memo to: war on the car h.q.from: propaganda unit re: new strategy recent setbacks have called into question the effectiveness of operation sneak attack - our careful strategy to conquer the streets using infiltration and subterfuge to incapacitate the enemy from within rather than risking an open confrontation at this early stag... (315 天前)

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Hats off to the last of Spadina's Jewish merchants

I should have bought a hat before she asked me to leave. That might have softened her, or helped to restore some of the pride my questions had carelessly damaged. ... (315 天前)

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The posturing in Toronto's phony war on the car

jbarber@globeandmail.comToronto's supposed ''war on the car'' is like one of those medieval Indian affairs in which duelling maharajas would manoeuvre solely on the basis of ancient tradition and astrology, with the happy result that their armies would wheel erratically across the countryside for months and years without ever encountering one another. It... (315 天前)

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