Micallef: Shawn Micallef

micallef: Shawn Micallef photo Shawn Micallef's new book looks partly at his walks with little-known municipal candidates in the 2014 election, according to Toronto Star. Supplied By Shawn Micallef Living Columnist Sun., Feb. 5, 2017 In his new book, Frontier City, Shawn Micallef writes of his walks through Toronto neighbourhoods with little-known municipal candidates who, despite the drama of the 2014 election campaign, shared big dreams for the city and filled him with hope that civic greatness really was within reach. It turns out barbecues make strange bedfellows. How then to explain the Ford victory In this excerpt, the Star columnist goes back to 2010 when on a Friday night in September, he found himself in the very middle of Canada where the meat is plentiful, the bar is open, and the Rob Ford voters friendly. The patriarch of the Ford clan, he founded Deco Labels and Tags, the printing company that made the family wealthy. Rob's dad was the late Doug Ford Sr., a backbencher in Mike Harris's Ontario government from 1995 to 1999. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.