chianello

With downtown Toronto slowly realizing coming to grips with the fact that Rob Ford is indeed the city’s new mayor, Joanne Chianello has a great story in the Ottawa Citizen on the “Fall and Fall of Larry O’Brien”, who came to office on a similar mantra of bringing business principles to the management of city hall. It’s a wonderful bit of long-form narrative  journalism, and is a reminder that — when the paper lets her do it — Joanne is one of the most under-rated political journalists in the country.