John Stall

As some may know, I spend a lot of my personal and private time coaching corporate executives and agency leaders to learn to be more effective when they are speaking to their customer base and general audience through the media or from a podium. One of the key components of meaningful and relevant communication is to [...]

I’m not going to endorse any of the candidates for mayor, but for those who remain undecided, I do think The Globe and Mail‘s editorial is worth reading as a measure of what is at stake. The Globe frames the mayor’ s role in a useful way by pointing out that between elections, whoever holds [...]

All I could get out of Rob Ford yesterday during a live chat on 680News.com is that he would deal (if elected mayor)  with the council-cutting commitment he’s making in the final year of his four-year term. The idea, according to Ford, is to have only 22 wards and 22 councillors running in the 2014 election. [...]

On the surface, it is not likely that Joe Pantalone has a chance of winning the mayoral race, for a couple of reasons. Firstly, compared to the other two main candidates, he is an underwhelming personality, and secondly, he represents the city hall that has supposedly given birth to the kind of anger that provides the [...]

With all respect to Messrs. Ford, Smitherman, Pantelone and Rossi, I’m shifting my attention and analysis to an election that is far more deeply personal to me and my family this Thanksgiving weekend. Our treasured Chihuahua, “Mo-mo the super dog,” is running for best dog and child costume title in the Elmvale fall contest. The Fair is celebrating its 150th [...]

There were no “game changing” moments in the Citytv debate Sunday night; however, John Tory and I exchanged an observation after I asked both Joe Pantalone and Rocco Rossi if there were any circumstances under which they would consider dropping out of the race? Their answers were no, and then Pantalone went on to portray [...]

I knew it would be just a matter of time before somebody questioned Rob Ford about the state of his health, but like him, I thought it would come from one of his opponents who felt they may have nothing to lose by raising the question. I’ve participated in a couple of the debates so [...]