Karen Stintz offered the TTC chair job to Rob Ford—twice

At an event for the Women’s Executive Network yesterday, Karen Stintz admitted to offering to quit her job as TTC chair—twice. Apparently, Stintz, frustrated during last winter’s intense head-butting over transit plans, offered up the position to Rob Ford. (We imagine some regret on the mayor’s part for not taking her up on it, since Stintz eventually toppled his subway-centric transit vision.) Stintz told Anne-Marie Mediwake that she was used to a “non-communicative environment,” having been raised by her taciturn engineer father. But the TTC tug of war between LRTs and subways was a different story: “Working for the Ford administration was the first time in my life I absolutely felt an inability to communicate with a group of men. I had never experienced that before.” Yikes. No wonder the administration has a lacklustre reputation when it comes to gender relations. [CBC News]

(Images: Rob Ford, Christopher Drost; Karen Stintz, Mike Beltzner)