Beginning at 9:30 a.m. and extending through to the next morning, the City of Toronto’s Executive Committee — led by Mayor Rob Ford — heard more than one hundred and fifty deputations from a diverse group of citizens. In a sincere bid to ensure that the passion, insight and creativity displayed over the course of that epic meeting is not forgotten, Ford For Toronto will be posting a deputation video every weekday for the month of August.
Deputant:Â Vikki VanSickle (twitter, website)
Occupation:Â She’s a children’s author and worked at the Flying Dragon Book Shop until it closed a few months back.
Political History:Â In her own words: “Although I am interested in politics, I would never describe myself as a politically active person.”
Scheduled Speaker No.: 245;Â Actual Speaker No.: 142
Note (1): Mayor Rob Ford, clearly very tired at this point in the evening, seems to make a derogatory reference toward either VanSickle or Councillor Janet Davis around the 3:30 mark.
Note (2): Vikki’s books, Words that start with B and Love is a Four-Letter Word, are available at the Toronto Public Library.
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