Monday, November 11, 2013

I'm in Toronto to meet with the staff about quality and safety progress at Southlake Regional Health Centre and Mt. Sinai Hospital and am very much looking forward to that.  Meanwhile, I get to read the Toronto Star, which has a story about the return to work of Mayor Rob Ford, "who ignited a firestorm last week when he admitted to smoking crack cocaine" and "will try to go back to business-as-usual."

Here's the quote of the day, the best I have seen about a leader in a long time:

"There's no 'business as usual' with Rob Ford. In a way there hasn't been for awhile, but now it's at the point of extreme unusualness," said Nelson Wiseman, a University of Toronto politics professor.

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