Go Home Print Celebrates 1st Anniversary

Shanley Maguire and Emma Sharpe of Go Home Print

Shanley Maguire, Emma Sharpe, and their numerous associates at Go Home Print -- all subjects of my August column for PrintAction -- are celebrating their first anniversary of publishing a quarterly magazine aimed to promote the independent creative community.  (For further details see https://app.box.com/s/17nmcefkw6x5qmsontan#! )  Festivities will include a launch party for the release of Issue # 4, entitled Tell Me About It, at Capital Expresso, 1349 Queen Street West, Toronto, on Thursday, October 24th from 8-11 p.m.  Everyone is welcome to attend.  

Photo credit:  Stine Danielle

Appeal granted: Toronto printer Rob Ford keeps his job as mayor

The verdict is just in:  Toronto’s printer Mayor Rob Ford will remain in office after winning his appeal of a November court ruling evicting him as mayor over a conflict-of-interest violation.  

His legal opponents plan to apply for leave to appeal yet again, this time to the Supreme Court of Canada.

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1319970--mayor-rob-ford-wins-appeal-will-stay-in-office

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/01/25/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-decision.html

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-wins-appeal-will-stay-in-office/article7848448/

http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/523947/breaking-rob-ford-wins-appeal-keeps-his-job-as-mayor-of-toronto/

http://www.680news.com/2013/01/25/verdict-in-ford-appeal-expected-friday/

http://o.canada.com/2013/01/25/rob-fords-legal-opponents-comment-on-appeal-ruling-that-favours-toronto-mayor/

For more background, please see my blog post of 27 November 2012:

http://vicg8.blogspot.ca/2012/11/torontos-printer-mayor-rob-ford-will.html 

Toronto’s printer Mayor Rob Ford will fight court ruling to remove him from office

Toronto’s printer Mayor Rob Ford says he will appeal yesterday’s verdict by Ontario Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland to remove Mr. Ford from office. The judge ruled that the mayor of two years violated the Municipal Conflict-of-Interest Act by speaking and voting in city council on a motion that recommended Mr. Ford repay $3,150 he improperly solicited from city hall lobbyists for his private football foundation.  In anticipation of potential disruptions to both Toronto’s civic government and the judicial system, Mr. Justice Hackland put his ruling on hold for 14 days to go into effect December 10^th.

In response, Mr. Ford (left centre) says that besides appealing the decision, he will also seek a stay from Divisional Court to keep him in office beyond December 10^th until the appeal process is finished.  He also says that, if he loses the appeal, he will run again in the by-election to fill the office he has vacated pending the general election of 2014.

Rob Ford and his family are owners of Deco Labels and Tags (Toronto, Chicago, and New Jersey).
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As you can see from the sampling of Web links below, journalists and bloggers are having a field day of speculation as they consider possible interpretations and future results of these latest events.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-mayor-rob-ford-removed-from-office-vows-to-appeal/article5661417/

http://www.globalnews.ca/video/raw+video++rob+ford+confirms+he+will+appeal+guilty+verdict/video.html?v=2309524527#canada

http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/toronto/citynews/news/video/237927--mayor-rob-ford-to-appeal-judge-s-guilty-ruling-in-conflict-of-interest-case

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1293190--mayor-rob-ford-guilty-kicked-from-office-but-can-run-again
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/11/25/toronto-ford-conflict-case-decision-release.html

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/11/26/f-rob-ford-mayor-future.html

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/cityhallpolitics/article/1293441--fiorito-judge-s-rob-ford-decision-was-not-about-the-money

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/rob-ford-too-stubborn-to-be-mayor/article5707594/

Addendum:  A few more links from 28 November 2012:
http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/11/28/rob-ford-says-hes-sorry-but-pledges-to-fight-to-stay-as-mayor-to-finish-job/

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/cityhallpolitics/article/1293585--rob-ford-s-appeal-will-be-filed-in-the-next-couple-days
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/cityhallpolitics/article/1294164--plan-c-a-ford-switcheroo

http://metronews.ca/news/toronto/456483/if-rob-ford-cant-run-in-byelection-its-dougs-turn-for-mayor/

http://news.nationalpost.com/tag/rob-ford/

New museum exhibit uses wide-format printing + smartphones 2 recreate prehistoric world

A new dinosaur exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto) makes extensive use of wide-format printing and smartphones to recreate the prehistoric world.

Today’s e-news from PrintAction highlights the exhibit’s enormous scientifically accurate murals printed by Beyond Digital Imaging using HP's latex ink technology at:

http://www.printaction.com/News/20120724-bdi-rom.html

Reuters describes the augmented reality technology that museum visitors can access via a mobile app at:

http://lnkd.in/K7xryY

Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games bring new business opportunities for printers

The Pan American Games closed last night in Guadalajara, Mexico, with a ceremony that included an eight-minute segment advertising Toronto and the fact that Ontario’s capital city will host the Games four years from now, from July 10 – 26, 2015.  Toronto’s printer Mayor Rob Ford was present in Guadalajara to waive the Pan American Games flag in the traditional handover ceremony.  Ford was joined by Canada’s Sports Minister Bal Gosal.

The weeklong Parapan American Games for physically challenged athletes will be held in Toronto the following month, from August 7 – 14, 2015.  It will be the third time Canada has hosted the Pan Am games (Winnipeg hosted them in both 1967 and 1999) and the first time ever that Canada will host the Parapan American Games. 
http://www.tsn.ca/toronto/story/?id=379307 

Best of all, both the Pan Am Games and Parapan American Games will bring new business opportunities for printers in Canada.  For more information on these business prospects, please see page 37 of my March-2010 column in PrintAction. https://www.box.net/shared/erx45bpunc  

Further info is also available from the Toronto Pan Am Games website at: http://www.toronto2015.org/

Toronto statistician cracks scratch lottery ticket code

Ticket printers & sellers beware!  Thanks to a feature article in this month's "Wired" Magazine, a Toronto statistician is receiving lots of attention for detecting flaws in scratch lottery tickets that make it easy to beat the odds.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1

Doug Ford to donate councillor's salary to charity

Doug Ford, president of Deco Labels and Tags, recently elected Toronto city councillor, and older brother of Toronto mayor-elect Rob Ford, plans to donate his entire councillor’s salary (about $100,000 annually) to community organizations during his four-year term of office.

http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontovotes2010/2010/10/26/15840566.html

Label printer Rob Ford elected Toronto's 64th mayor

In today’s municipal election, Rob Ford, CFO and principal of Deco Labels and Tags and a Toronto city councillor for the past decade, has just been elected mayor of Toronto.  His older brother, Doug Ford, Jr., has also just been elected the replacement city councillor in Rob's old ward.  

http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20101025/election-day-101025/20101025/?hub=TorontoNewHome

http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/10/25/ford-brothers-to-band-together-at-city-hall-doug-wins-ward-2/

Rob is scheduled to take over as mayor on December 1^st. As far as we know at PrintAction Magazine, it will be the first time a printer has occupied the city’s mayoral office since William Lyon Mackenzie was elected Toronto’s first mayor in 1834.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004947