{"id":14429,"date":"2026-05-27T10:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/londontlife\/is-it\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T10:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T14:05:27","slug":"is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?p=14429","title":{"rendered":"Is it \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\u2026about the money? <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":771071,"featured_media":14428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":"Is it \u2026 just .. about the money? What is \u201cValue\u201d? Who decides? #ldnont","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":[582494018],"tags":[47054],"class_list":["post-14429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-londontlife-blog-post","tag-city-council","post_format-post-format-image","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?fit=2000%2C1499&ssl=1","pbg_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?fit=2000%2C1499&ssl=1",2000,1499,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?fit=120%2C90&ssl=1",120,90,true],"medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?fit=240%2C180&ssl=1",240,180,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?fit=723%2C542&ssl=1",723,542,true],"large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1",480,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?fit=1536%2C1151&ssl=1",1536,1151,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?fit=2000%2C1499&ssl=1",2000,1499,true],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=1200%2C800&ssl=1",1200,800,true],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=870%2C570&ssl=1",870,570,true],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=600%2C900&ssl=1",600,900,true],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1",600,600,true],"newspack-article-block-landscape-large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=1200%2C900&ssl=1",1200,900,true],"newspack-article-block-portrait-large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=900%2C1200&ssl=1",900,1200,true],"newspack-article-block-square-large":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=1200%2C1200&ssl=1",1200,1200,true],"newspack-article-block-landscape-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1",800,600,true],"newspack-article-block-portrait-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=600%2C800&ssl=1",600,800,true],"newspack-article-block-square-medium":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1",800,800,true],"newspack-article-block-landscape-intermediate":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=600%2C450&ssl=1",600,450,true],"newspack-article-block-portrait-intermediate":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=450%2C600&ssl=1",450,600,true],"newspack-article-block-square-intermediate":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=600%2C600&ssl=1",600,600,true],"newspack-article-block-landscape-small":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=400%2C300&ssl=1",400,300,true],"newspack-article-block-portrait-small":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=300%2C400&ssl=1",300,400,true],"newspack-article-block-square-small":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=400%2C400&ssl=1",400,400,true],"newspack-article-block-landscape-tiny":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=200%2C150&ssl=1",200,150,true],"newspack-article-block-portrait-tiny":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=150%2C200&ssl=1",150,200,true],"newspack-article-block-square-tiny":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=200%2C200&ssl=1",200,200,true],"newspack-article-block-uncropped":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1",1200,899,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=450%2C450&ssl=1",450,450,true],"apostrophe-2-featured":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=930%2C450&ssl=1",930,450,true],"apostrophe-2-mini":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=60%2C60&ssl=1",60,60,true],"apostrophe-2-gallery":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=550%2C550&ssl=1",550,550,true],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=300%2C300&ssl=1",300,300,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?fit=600%2C450&ssl=1",600,450,true],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=100%2C100&ssl=1",100,100,true],"jetpack-portfolio-admin-thumb":["https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3758-1.png?resize=50%2C50&ssl=1",50,50,true]},"pbg_author_info":{"display_name":"dougsamu","author_link":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?author=771071","author_img":"dougsamu"},"pbg_comment_info":" No Comments","pbg_excerpt":null,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38YJ-3KJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14400,"url":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?p=14400","url_meta":{"origin":14429,"position":0},"title":"Just asking questions","author":"dougsamu","date":"05\/27\/2026","format":"image","excerpt":"Why is it always about me?","rel":"","context":"In "londontlife"","block_context":{"text":"londontlife","link":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?cat=582494018"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3753-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3753-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3753-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3753-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/img_3753-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12187,"url":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?p=12187","url_meta":{"origin":14429,"position":1},"title":"Doug Ford’s Mighty Not Withstanding hammer slams again.","author":"Doug at Samupress","date":"10\/31\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"From page 21 of It's a Londontlife #2. We lost a lot of work somehow in a failed backup crash power outage disaster. I don't know. Work from 2018 and 2019 was amongst that. Anyway. This was Drug Frod's first use of the Not Withstanding to dismantle the Toronto city\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "merch"","block_context":{"text":"merch","link":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?cat=748572166"},"img":{"alt_text":"pg 21 from It's a Londontlife #2","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-31-at-3.35.38-PM.png?fit=1200%2C883&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-31-at-3.35.38-PM.png?fit=1200%2C883&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-31-at-3.35.38-PM.png?fit=1200%2C883&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-31-at-3.35.38-PM.png?fit=1200%2C883&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-31-at-3.35.38-PM.png?fit=1200%2C883&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15266,"url":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?p=15266","url_meta":{"origin":14429,"position":2},"title":"Let\u2019s try something else instead","author":"dougsamu","date":"03\/25\/2026","format":"image","excerpt":"Mayor floats a trial balloon","rel":"","context":"In "londontlife"","block_context":{"text":"londontlife","link":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?cat=582494018"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3987.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3987.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3987.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3987.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/img_3987.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12200,"url":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?p=12200","url_meta":{"origin":14429,"position":3},"title":"This isn’t as easy as throwing a rolled up newspaper at your front door","author":"Doug at Samupress","date":"11\/07\/2022","format":"image","excerpt":"Distribution: The advice is \"Go wide not deep\" even as the audience for LondOntLife is siloed, localized to London Ontario What we are pondering. I want, simply, to draw the cartoon and share it. Managing all this is a drag. Where you can find us Twitter: @LondOntLife Following? About:450 Wordpress:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "merch"","block_context":{"text":"merch","link":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?cat=748572166"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13269,"url":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?p=13269","url_meta":{"origin":14429,"position":4},"title":"Location location location","author":"dougsamu","date":"10\/02\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The basic fundamental rule of business - location location location Maybe it is zoned Business. But there are no nearby residents with money. And nowhere to buy bread and milk. Any residential was long ago sacrificed to the Gods of Parking. A Life Out Of Balance is a rerun cartoon\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "londontlife"","block_context":{"text":"londontlife","link":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?cat=582494018"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_3481-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_3481-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_3481-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_3481-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/img_3481-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15162,"url":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?p=15162","url_meta":{"origin":14429,"position":5},"title":"More core!","author":"dougsamu","date":"02\/17\/2026","format":"image","excerpt":"City Hall might as well move to the suburbs","rel":"","context":"In "londontlife"","block_context":{"text":"londontlife","link":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/?cat=582494018"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_3971-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_3971-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_3971-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_3971-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/samupress.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/img_3971-1.png?fit=1200%2C899&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/771071"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14458,"href":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14429\/revisions\/14458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samupress.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}