With this issue the first incarnation of The Voice of London wraps up. We came online (and into your email box) the first Friday in March and except for one week’s holiday in the summer, we have faithfully returned every Friday since, bringing you coverage and commentary on the local political scene that has been [...]

This week Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best went before the Planning Committee to push through her recommendation that the short block of Kent Street, running between Clarence and Richmond Streets just west of Victoria Park, be officially renamed Angel Street. She wants this re-dubbing to be in place by November 1st, according to a London Free [...]

Instead, I think we should bring back that old proviso that in addition to posting a fee a would-be candidate was also required to garner a good number of signatures of fellow citizens attesting to their credibility. Was it 50? 100? Or how about 200 bucks and 200 signatures gets you into the game? And why was that perfectly sensible proviso dropped? Something in my guts tells me that as with most other dodgy political innovations that have wrenched this country and its traditions out of shape, it can probably be traced back to Trudeau’s damned Canadian Charter of Rights. Heaven knows we wouldn’t want to discriminate against deluded bozos who make rational political debate impossible for everybody.

I have little doubt that crimes increasingly go unreported when the average citizen comes to believe that there is little that the police will or can do about the problem anyway. That lack of confidence in police protection is also what drives actions like David Chen’s.

Spontaneously giving vent to what became known as “the rant heard round the world,” and cheered on by other traders and brokers on the floor, Santelli repeatedly hollered, “Stop the spending,” while crossing his arms in front of his chest like a referee calling for a ‘time out’ or Professor Van Helsing warding off the vampiric advances of Dracula or one of his undead minions.