Don't mess with Larry, he will f*uck you up. Doesn't Sullivan ever watch Davinci. The mayor is one bad mother

Cadman claimed that the file was lost by the Mayor's office, so Larry wil have to get his facts straight with him first.

Seeing as the World Peace forum is still almost $1 million short in funds, there was no way they were going to raise money for this thing.

At the end of the day, this isn't really Larry's fault. Cadman has been carrying the ball on this one. If he had coordinated with city staff and the organizers to get everything ready properly, then the NPA would have left it alone.

Instead, he dropped the ball and in his typical blowhard fashion is trying to pin the blame on someone else. Does anyone find him very peaceful when he blusters away every night on the evening news?

Larry , if anyone forgot was a cop, then the senior coroner. I doubt he ever lost or misplaced anything. It's the same old NPA. the other guys ideas simply had to be replaced with their stuff. as someone mentioned, don't mess with Larry, he has a following and would have been mayor had he stayed, with no problem.sullivan woulnd't have been dumb enough to run agaist him. He said he wanted to work on drug issues and social housing in Ottawa and I figure he will do what he said we will do.

When was the last time an opposition backbench senator accomplished anything?

I enjoyed Larry Campbell's reflections on his first 60 days spending $600,000 on an Olympic plebiscite, but back to the issue of the Mayors for Peace conference. Council's March, 2005 vote determined it was to be hosted and organized by the mayor's office. It was Clr. Cadman who told a meeting of the Peace and Justice Committee that the previous mayor's office "lost" the file. If it wasn't lost, it might as well have been. Why was no official invitation sent out during the ensuing nine months, no budget prepared, no sponsor sold, no work at all done on the project except one phone call to the Sandman Inn by Clr Cadman?

Mayor Sullivan's staff did call Mr. Marder and offered him a scaled-down project that would fit the $50,000 budget. He refused.

It's very easy for Mr. Marder to tell us we could organize the event for $50,000, when we'd be on the hook for any overruns. Show me how we can host 100 people for five nights, 1,200 meals, 800 coffee-break snacks, 100-plus trips to the airport, a couple of receptions, meeting rooms, A-V, organizer's salary, in-town transportation, security and speaker fees for $50,000. The Wosk Centre alone, listed in Mr. Marder's "budget" at $2,400, rents for around $11,000.

Peter Ladner

Ah yes, Peter Ladner, the bicycling Councillor, successor to the NPA's anti-freeway advocate, Gordon Price, Inc.

I remember hearing Ladner speak to an economnists luncheon some years ago. "Journalist" Fazil Mihlar was positioned in the audience to provide a kind of human laugh track at all of Peter's lame jokes, but Mihlar kept screwing up and laughing ahead of cue, thus drowning out the punch lines.

Anyway, Ladner claimed that the hard working offices of his BIV staff were located in the same building as the Aboriginal land claims Treaty Negotiation Office. Some Indians had staged a protest there a few days earlier, and Ladner wanted all the economics types to know that he and his staff were shocked, shocked I tell you, to smell marijuana smoke drifting down the halls from the protest.

When was the last time an opposition backbench senator accomplished anything?

It should be clear to most thinking folks that the Liberals have a large majority in the senate, they can stop legislation and require changes in legislation. The cons have a minority government doing it's best to self destruct. I figure Senator Larry will get the issues he is supporting. Harper and Co are on borrowed time.
I sort of loved councillor Landers email complete with a lot of symbols which made more sense than what he wrote

Where is the balanced sleepswithangels when you need him!?!?!?!?

The only left commentators remaining on civic lssues are Budd, whose reminisences are endearing but typically useless, and DL who is always useless. The Dogma Dunce!

Ladner should be congratulated for taking Lackey Larry on. I have often fantisized about mopping the floor with Senator Lunchbucket. He was an ass of a Mayor. Spin city and venom and not much else. He can't stand the fact that the City ultimately rejects the center left and (lately not so) Slammin' Sammy's in the crowsnest.

More to the point. Why do we need a Peace Forum? What an idiotic proposition! This City has enough issues on it's plate germane to neighbourhoods, finances, safe streets and the envirnoment, not to have to deal with matters that are the sole purview of Ottawa and Washington. Enough already with all the BS. Good on you Pistol Pete! Larry's just upset because the Rideau frozen over (a truly beautiful sight)pales in comparison to the view from under one of the bar tables at the Princeton...always classy guy that Larry.

Keep shooting Peter, to date, you're the only one at it......someone's gotta be the Mayor...

Hey Peter and Larry. It's Dagmar.

As a voter, I'd like to know two things.

Why is the city in the business of world peace? Don't you hve better things to do?

Why did the city ever promise money for a mayor conference/junket for peace? What's that ever going to solve?