The housing market has become a hot potato no one wants to touch
The case of the two Louises
The gay rights group Egale held their second annual gala at Toronto’s Royal York Hotel. The gala honoured TD bank CEO Ed Clark with a leadership award. The night raised money for the programs to battle homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools. Below, Tory Senator Nancy Ruth (left) and singer Carole Pope.
The most interesting thing about this story is not that Ed Clark, the CEO of TD Bank, is calling for tax increases to fight the federal budget deficit, although that’s pretty interesting. It’s not even that the Prime Minister’s Office lashed out at Clark’s perfectly reasonable position as though he’d said something plainly offensive, although the PMO’s response made quite a spectacle.
Michael Ignatieff selflessly beseeches the Prime Minister to spare the rest of the population and direct all anger at him.
Be careful what you say in public.
Some of you may have read in this week’s magazine, a story under my byline in which I refer to the fact that ESPN columnist Bill Simmons reported in his column he received a personal email from Ed Clark requesting that he stop referring to Boston’s TD Banknorth Garden as “Whatever the hell the Garden is called.” I repeated this anecdote as part of a short story in our magazine about the enormous inflation in prices for arena naming rights.