{"id":1820,"date":"2017-08-14T11:34:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2017-11-05T11:54:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T16:54:21","slug":"breakfast-speaker-march-17-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-speaker-march-17-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Speaker March 17, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Retired Councillor Howard Moscoe is releasing his memoirs this fall. Call Me Pish<\/span>er – A Madcap Romp Through City Hall will be released this October from Yorkland Publishing.\u00a0<\/span>Howard Moscoe has been threatening to do something like this for years, since before he retired from a 32-year career in municipal politics back in 2010. \u00a0<\/span>And this October, the former councillor for Eglinton-Lawrence is making good. Moscoe, who former mayor Mel Lastman once described as \u201cthe best excuse for birth control I know,\u201d is publishing his memoirs.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cIt is a madcap romp through city hall,\u201d said Moscoe on a visit to the Toronto City Hall press gallery Aug. 22. \u201cI had a lot of bizarre things happen in politics. I have four chapters I call the ‘Bizarre of the Bizarre’ \u2014 just bizarre incidents that occurred. But bizarre incidents occurred through my whole run at city hall.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Call Me Pisher: A Madcap Romp Through City Hall<\/em> has an opening line that Moscoe promises sets the tone for the rest: \u201cMy grandfather was a horse thief, my grandmother a bootlegger, my father a bookmaker and my brother a scalper; so there was nothing left for me but politics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Retired Councillor Howard Moscoe is releasing his memoirs this fall. Call Me Pisher – A Madcap Romp Through City Hall will be released this October from Yorkland Publishing.\u00a0Howard Moscoe has been threatening to do something like this for years, since before he retired from a 32-year career in municipal politics back in 2010. \u00a0And this … Continue reading Breakfast Speaker March 17, 2018<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2018"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t