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• Rob Ford, Crack Cocaine, and Editorial Responsibility in the Days of Instant News

  
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  In my grandfather’s day, if you saw it on the front page of the newspaper, it must be true. My, how times have changed! A bizarre story is gripping my city this week, and nobody knows if it’s true or if it isn’t. The fact that somebody told it to somebody else is news enough! [...] The post Rob Ford, Crack ...
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• Rob Ford’s crack cocaine scandal, urban politics, and the new face of 21st century Canada

  
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  There’s no city with more people in Canada than Toronto, and in all of North America, there are just three cities that are more populous — México City, New York and Los Angeles. Their mayors include Miguel Ángel Mancera, the latest in a line of Mexican center-left leaders in a position that’s seen as a ...
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• Rob Ford still MIA on drug allegations as ‘crackstarter’ bid to buy video tops $75,000

  
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  Four days after two media outlets reported they saw video of Rob Ford smoking crack-cocaine and making a homophobic slur about Justin Trudeau, the embattled Toronto mayor remains out of the public eye and a crowdfunding campaign passed $75,000 in donations to purchase the alleged video. Besides the mayor’s brisk ...
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• Gawker crowdsourcing $200,000 to purchase video of Toronto mayor smoking crack

  
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  Rob Ford is the mayor of Toronto, Canada’s largest city. But he’s about to be better known — at least
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• District Line Daily: Voter Rolled

  
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  A morning roundup of news, opinion, and links from Washington City Paper and around the District. Send tips and ideas to citydesk@washingtoncitypaper.com . Sign up : To get District Line Daily—or any of our other email newsletters—sent straight to your mailbox, click here . The Districts voter rolls ...
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• Between the lines of the death of the Toronto casino

  
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  Was the proposed casino supposed to bring revenue to the city of Toronto, or “10,000 jobs “, as Rob Ford repeatedly pronounced? I suppose if the numbers were as high as Ford asserted ($100 million, minimum), a casino could’ve potentially brought both. But those idealized revenues turned out to be about half ...
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• Ford goes one for one on City Hall reno scuttle

  
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  He  did manage to kill the bike lockers , so that probably left old Robbie emboldened to try yet another City Hall renovation change. This time around he wanted to make the pool in front of City Hall a wading pool. But that didn’t entirely go over . On the bright side, Rob called yesterday’s TTC transit ...
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• ‘I’ll hold them accountable’: Rob Ford lobs political threats at councillors willing to consider taxes to fund transit

  
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  On the eve of what could be a critical debate on transit funding in Toronto, Mayor Rob Ford continued to lob political threats at those who dare to debate taxes and tolls. “If 30 councillors want to put their name to implement taxes on the back of hardworking taxpayers in the city, I’ll hold them accountable in ...
  2 weeks ago

• City staff may ask Porter to pay for proposed $1-million review of airline’s request to fly jets out of island airport

  
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  A proposed review of Porter Airline’s request to fly jets in and out of Toronto’s island airport will cost in excess of $1-million and take several months to complete, according to city staff. Porter will pay for the first phase of study, pegged between $225,000 and $275,000, a report before city council states. ...
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• The Rob Ford Radio Recap: Free Parking

  
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  Every Sunday, Mayor Rob Ford and his brother, Doug, host The City , a two-hour talk show on Newstalk 1010. We listen so you dont have to. Rob and Doug Ford in the studio. Photo courtesy of Newstalk 1010. Sunday was a beautiful day to stay inside and listen to the Ford brothers’ radio show! Actually, it was a ...
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• The Fords and the womens

  
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  Doug Ford didn’t like that TTC Chair Karen Stintz had some things to say about streetcars while visiting Cincinnati: “She’s making it sound like everyone in Toronto loves streetcars. That’s how she’s making it sound, that everyone is Gung ho and it is the total opposite. The mayor won with a clear ...
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• Rob Ford affirms the obvious

  
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  In response to Karen Stintz’ accusation that Rob Ford ain’t doing his job, his office sent back a tersely worded response : “There is no lack of leadership from the Mayor.” Not what Stintz said, but given the collective capacity for comprehension behind Ford Nation, let’s just say close enough. ...
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• Duly Quoted: Rob Ford Press Secretary George Christopoulos

  
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  “There is no lack of leadership from the Mayor. The Mayor received an overwhelming mandate from Toronto taxpayers to go down to City Hall and get spending under control, keep taxes low and focus the City on the priorities of taxpayers.” —First, the mayor and several of his allies voted to derail a debate on ...
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• City Hall’s Transit Gridlock Must End

  
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  The mayor and his allies are once again trying to derail a proper conversation about the future of transit. City council must stop them. Photo by sniderscion from the Torontoist Flickr Pool . The outcome of the debate was clear from the moment the report appeared. Mayor Rob Ford is absolutely, positively, ...
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• The Conservative Dynasty (of sociopaths, criminals, tyrants, and unabashed assholes)

  
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  Conservative minions, like the recently exposed scumbaggery of Harper’s appointment to the Human Rights Tribunal, Shirish Chotslis , are all pretty much cut from the same despicable, criminal, sociopathic cloth. I have no doubt (see below), that the vast majority of Harper’s hand-picked cabinet would gleefully ...
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