Episode 154: Ford Founders, Axing the Honour Roll, Inside the PMO and more

Toronto's Mayor Holds On

"Rob Ford is a football player. He's going to tuck his chin down and put his shoulders up and keep barreling down the field."

-Mark Towhey, former Chief of Staff to Toronto Mayor Rob Ford

Find more quotes from this week's guests after the break.

Inside the PMO 

"If you're dealing with Duffy or anyone else you expect sooner or later that stuff is going to get used, so you prepare in advance. This time they didn't seem to. They seemed to have been caught a little bit flat footed." 

-Keith Beardsley served in Prime Minister Harper's PMO as Deputy Chief of Staff

Axing the Honour Roll

 "If a kid clearly isn't getting it in math... the last thing you want to do is say to this kid publicly "you're a loser" or put an F or low mark on the paper."

--Alfie Kohn is the author of Punished By Rewards and No Contest: the Case Against Competition

The Long View with Dan Carlin: Espionage 

"Julius Caesar had famously something that's known now as the Caesar cypher where he created one of those personal codes for his letters. And Caesar wrote all of his letters in this personal code of his to protect his communications... It's a continual game of spy vs. spy or cat and mouse."

-Dan Carlin host of the podcasts program Common Sense, and Hardcore History  

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