Tag Archives: Toronto

Guinness World Records Recognizes World’s Oldest Performing Drag Queen, Michelle DuBarry, Age 84

Guinness World Records has made it official. Toronto’s Michelle DuBarry, 84, is the world’s oldest performing drag queen. The Toronto Star reports: As she twirls around a stage belting out Doris Day lyrics, you’d never think Michelle DuBarry is 84. But along with her birthday this week came the title of World’s Oldest Performing Drag Queen. Russell Alldread — Michelle …

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CANADA: Gay Talk Show Host Christopher Hyndman Found Dead In Toronto Alley

CBC News reports: The body of Christopher Hyndman, co-host of the afternoon talk show Steven & Chris on CBC-TV, was found in an alleyway in Toronto’s east end Monday night, police confirm. “It is with profound sadness that we share the news Christopher Hyndman died,” said the public broadcaster in a memo distributed to staff Tuesday afternoon. “We extend our …

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TORONTO: Religious Groups Stage Anti-LGBT March Against Sex Education

Telesur reports: Furious over what they say are radical changes to sex education curriculum, protesters direct their anger towards openly gay Premier Kathleen Wynne. Demonstrators in Toronto chanted “Kathleen, loser, lesbian loser!,” as they protested on Sunday against the revised sexual education curriculum in Canada’s largest city. Comprised mainly of concerned parents and federal conservative activists, this growing anti-sex education …

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CANADA: Toronto Cop Dyes Hair Pink In Support Of Anti-Bullying Campaign

Via Yahoo: The Toronto Police force is taking a stand against bullying, but it’s not in the way you might expect. Their unconventional approach involves hot pink hair and Twitter—and kids are paying attention. It all started when Toronto police officers Ryan Willmer and Luke Watson were trying to raise awareness for the Day of Pink on April 8 in …

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TORONTO: The Ford Era Has Ended

Via the Associated Press: Toronto’s next mayor will be a straight-laced, button down moderate conservative — almost the polar opposite of current Mayor Rob Ford, whose term was plagued by scandals involving public drinking and illegal drug use. John Tory won Monday’s election with 40 percent of the vote, compared to 33 percent for Doug Ford, brother of the outgoing …

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Toronto Faces Used Ford Trade-In

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Alvvays – Marry Me, Archie

“Blissed-out pop” from Toronto. Like a crunchier early Blondie.

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TORONTO: LGBT Activists Attacked By Rob Ford Supporters At “Ford Fest 2014”

Via CBC News: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s annual Ford Fest drew more than a thousand supporters to a park in the city’s east end, but the event was marred by some tense moments as LGBT activists were jeered at and told to go home by some supporters. Ford drew heat from the LGBT community again recently after he remained seated …

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REPORT: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Was Kicked Out Of Rehab For Being Disruptive

According to a report published by the Toronto Star, embattled Mayor Rob Ford’s claims of a successful stint in crack rehab are untrue. Mayor Rob Ford pushed and scuffled with fellow rehab residents and was so verbally abusive that he was kicked out of his group therapy program, according to people who have knowledge of his two month stay at …

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TORONTO: Shirtless Jogger Inspires More Shirtless Protests Of Mayor Rob Ford

Via the National Post: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was greeted by about a dozen shirtless protesters as he entered a Toronto radio station for an interview Friday morning. The protest was an act of defiance inspired by a Toronto teacher’s anti-Ford rant after encountering the mayor at a parade while the teacher was out for a shirtless jog. The protestors, …

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TORONTO: Shirtless Bear Jogger Confronts “Homophobe” Mayor Rob Ford

Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was met with jeers and insults when he marched in his city’s Canada Day Parade this afternoon. One passerby in particular captured the media’s attention when he repeatedly called Ford a racist and a homophobe Via CBC News: Ford was at one point confronted by local resident Joe Killoran — a Toronto-area teacher who was …

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Toronto Sees WorldPride Rainbow

Top photo by JMG reader Tyler. Bottom photo tipped by JMG reader Rob. Source.

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WorldPride Kicks Off In Toronto

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TORONTO: Mayor Rob Ford Takes Rehab Leave As New Crack Video Surfaces

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford announced yesterday that he is taking a leave from his duties and will seek help after the Globe & Mail revealed that its reporters had viewed a new video which allegedly shows Ford smoking crack. The footage comes to light weeks after Mr. Ford embarked on a re-election campaign styled on the importance of second chances …

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TORONTO: Crackhead Mayor Rob Ford Wants City Hall Rainbow Flag Removed

Toronto’s crackhead Mayor Rob Ford is furious that his town’s city hall today raised a rainbow flag in solidarity with Russia’s LGBT people. “It’s not about someone’s sexual preference,” he told reporters as he left his office to go outside and inspect the Canadian flag he had just put up in his office window. “No, I do not agree with …

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Rob Ford Turns Jamaican

Via the Telegraph: Another video of scandal plagued Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has appeared online, in which he appears to be inebriated. The mayor slurs and swears at staff, while apparently trying to imitate a Jamaican accent. The person who uploaded the video to YouTube wrote that it was shot at a fast-food restaurant in Rexdale in the northwest area …

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Rob Ford Files For Re-Election

Toronto’s crack-smoking mayor today filed for re-election and already the local papers have busted him for lying. Ford then went on to declare himself the “best mayor” Toronto has ever had before rattling off a list of his alleged accomplishments, some of which in the words of the Star “were exaggerations or simply untrue.” The most obvious errors of fact …

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Rob Ford Knocks Down City Councilor

By accident! Via Washington Post: Toronto’s City Council voted Monday to strip scandal-plagued Mayor Rob Ford of many of his powers following a heated debate in which he knocked over a female councilor. Council members voted overwhelming to cut the 44-year-old Ford’s office budget by 60 percent and allow mayoral staff to join the deputy mayor. Ford now effectively has …

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PFLAG Wants To Meet With Rob Ford

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Rob Ford: I’m Running For Re-Election

Crack and cunnilingus for everybody!

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