After I tweeted this guy as “Asshole of the Day” and wondered whether or not he was a real person or an Onion spoof, a friend RT’d:
“I’m totally getting drunk this Saturday night, and reading that guy’s website out to the gang.”
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Wow, I almost wish I still drank..
UPDATE:
Thanks to the deligent 5FF reader who did some research on our “Asshole of the Day” (and whose nickname I swear to God I picked out of thin air before reading any of this…)
* “PS. Yes, that Rick Telfer” [explains Rick Telfer!] “Former student leader at UWO. Former Federation representative, 2001-2004. Former Toronto District School Board Trustee, 2003-2006. These days, I’m a graduate student studying the sociology of education.”
* Denise Balkissoon: “Rick Telfer is a hardcore homo academic.”
“After that, there was no turning back — 24-year-old Telfer says with a laugh that he’ll always have a fondness for the bars. He came out to his parents (“It went from, ‘We will never accept it’ to ‘We don’t accept it but we accept you’ to ‘We accept you’”). And he’s now in his most serious relationship — two years and counting with his police officer boyfriend.”
* It’s a small, small, small, small world!
Toronto District School Trustee Ward 15
Ward 15 Toronto-Danforth • Rick Telfer
416-397-3118 • rick.telfer@tdsb.on.ca(And on the next page…)
Scarborough-Rouge River Bas Balkissoon
416-325-7111 • Fax 416-325-7120
bbalkissoon.mpp@liberal.ola.org* Amusing flashback from 2006:
Gays say, “Hey, let’s take over the School Board”
Rick Telfer, trustee in Ward 15 Toronto-Danforth, is bowing out. Aside from wanting more personal time, Telfer says he’s not running again because the current crop of trustees lacks the political will to take the province to task over the constant funding cuts that have affected everything from muffins to support staff. (…)
Billed as Canada’s only classroom for queer/trans youth, the Triangle Program is a chance for queer students who are having difficulty coping with daily life in a mainstream school environment to carry on with their studies. The program has existed for nine years and has received funding for its website and annual Pride week prom directly from Telfer’s trustee budget.
Telfer is more skeptical. “Let’s say the entire board were gay and lesbian and card-carrying Liberals. If I were to put forward a motion tonight to add $5,000 to the Triangle Program budget, I’m sure Chris Bolton would support it, but would Sheila Ward support it? I’m not sure she would,”
“The average teenage boy in the US consumes the equivalent of a one litre mason jar of sugar in a week”
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(And we don’t want those svelte young things ruining their figures, now, do we?)
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