Nothing got a bigger rise out of Doug Ford than when a Ryerson University student compared him to Donald Trump this week. At our Ryerson Democracy Forum, carried live on thestar.com, he’d just lambasted the American president — so it hurt to be lumped in with Trump (even in the past tense). I’m ticked off at him,” Ford said of Trump. The usual Twitter trolls seemed to expect we’d punch Ford in the face at the forum, even if only figuratively. But the premier has the power to make our politics better and do democracy differently than Americans.

Source: thestar October 07, 2020 23:30 UTC