That Notional Pest piece re: Pride/Canada Day is really annoying, in that it is intentional playing to the SoCons base. Perhaps the City could have declared one Canada Day celebration would proceed with whatever manpower they had and sacrificed the rest, but Pride has a dedicated organising committee which likely meant less organisation required from the city than an equivalent size City of Toronto event.

It is interesting that at Miller's press conference he omitted the CHIN Picnic at City-owned Exhibition Place as an event going ahead (it has outsourced, not City of Toronto pickup)

That's the last time I read a National Post commentary. Yikes! It reads like a forum post where people vent about hating Toronto and how the "Gay Right's Organizations" (sic) are taking over the world. I expect newspapers to have content of a higher quality than an internet message board. What purpose do they serve if this is what they publish? Goodbye newspaper media, and good riddance.