Adam Giambrone and Sarah McQuarrie are gettin’ hitched! (Image: Tsar Kasim)
It’s fair to say that this is not a storybook romance, but that’s no reason not to congratulate former TTC chair Adam Giambrone: news broke yesterday that he’s marrying long-time partner Sarah McQuarrie. Despite the revelation of his affair with another woman—which caused Giambrone’s mayoral campaign to implode last year—the Toronto Star reported that Giambrone and McQuarrie are marrying at the end of November. Both Joe Pantalone and Shelley Carroll are quoted wishing the young couple well, while also tiptoeing around the obvious “challenges,” as Pantalone put it.
The Toronto Star, having already reported that Sarah Thomson 
As Rocco Rossi reminded us with his 
After the election was won and done with, we began to learn how much debt the candidates had racked up in their doomed-except-for-Rob Ford race for the mayor’s office. Then came 
1. true belieber \troo bih-leeb-er\ n. (2010): Self-designative term adopted by mega-fans of Canadian entertainer Justin Bieber. Males identifiable by side-swept haircuts, high tops and hoodies. Females known for fierce loyalty and pathological bouts of hysteria. Natural habitat: Twitter. (See also: Bieber Fever)
2. Giambroner \jam-brohn-er\ n. (2010): Any scandal of a sexual nature that involves a couch. Named after former mayoral candidate Adam Giambrone, whose campaign for mayor of Toronto was thwarted after it was discovered that he had been engaging in horizontal activity on his office sofa with a woman who was not his live-in girlfriend. (See also: Clintonastrophe)
Despite some early bets that the mayor wouldn’t get everything he wanted out of council, Rob Ford has so far gotten everything he wanted and then some. Car tax? Gone. TTC strikes? Gone (pending provincial action). Councillor office budgets? Slashed. And in not a single case was the vote particularly close—the votes were 39-6, 28-17 and 40-5, respectively. In order to clear the decks in one sitting, council ran for 12 hours almost uninterrupted, sitting until after 9 p.m. last night.
From the outside, there’s been little more inherently confusing, even 
Break out the champagne: the 
The city has released the data on councillors’ expenses for 2010: because of the election, their annual allowances are less, and they end with the new council on December 1, so we all get to pore through the numbers a little bit early. So how did the council do? Let’s look at the winners and losers based on Toronto’s new gravy-free perspective: 
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