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Rob Ford: Still smoking crack. On video. Taking leave of absence.

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Dr.Acula

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WedgeX said:
Rob Ford has forced the New York Times to write the following sentence

For the lawmakers and people of Toronto, known to much of the world as a cosmopolitan city with copious bike lanes, hockey’s Maple Leafs and general placidity, the endurance of Mr. Ford, so rotund and erratic that he often appears on the brink of spontaneous explosion, has become nothing short of an obsession.
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Got dang.
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Copious bike lanes... Some of which were painted over by Rob Ford...
 
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firehawk12

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Our government's official stance:
“Our Government does not condone illegal drug use, especially by elected officials while in office, including Justin Trudeau. We'll continue to work with all levels of government on shared priorities, such as jobs and economic growth. That includes working with mayors and city councils, including the Mayor of Toronto and Toronto City Council.”
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HEY GUYS JUSTIN TRUDEAU IS JUST LIKE ROB FORD
 
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Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
I realize almost every Toronto gafer thinks he's a tit, but the continued support is amazingly embarrassing.
 
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Dr.Acula

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Stinkles said:
I realize almost every Toronto gafer thinks he's a tit, but the continued support is amazingly embarrassing.
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Well, he's been free falling in the polls the last few weeks. In council, he's lost all the votes regarding his powers, so he's lost the support in council. The province is saying they're looking at things they can do. The police have surveilled him. He lost the endorsement of the Toronto Sun. He lost his radio show. He was asked not to attend the CFL playoff game or the Santa Claus parade. He had support that got him elected, but that support only helps you once every four years, so let's see if he does have that support.

Sure plenty of people shout encouragement at him, but I know one person who bought a bobble head and they hate Ford. I saw him in an LCBO the weekend before the police announced they had the tape and yelled "four more years" at him. People love a train wreck.

SunTV gave him a show, but that's only b/c their network has abysmal ratings and this is a stunt.
 
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Divvy

Canadians burned my passport
Ezra Levant on Rob Ford: "I’d take him drunk over his left-wing predecessor sober""
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Ezra Levant is such a piece of shit. Is there anybody in politics who wears a bright red bowtie not a an absolute moron?
 
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gutter_trash

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Magik

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Even after all this nonsense, he'll probably still get re-elected.

Ford Nation doesn't care if he does crack on a daily basis as long as they can "save" a buck or two.
 
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Azih

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Honestly at this point the only way I can see things escalating (and this is after shit has hit the fan a dozen times over) is if the Toronto Police manage to get Sandro Lisi to roll over on Ford.
 
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Akuun

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Azih said:
Honestly at this point the only way I can see things escalating (and this is after shit has hit the fan a dozen times over) is if the Toronto Police manage to get Sandro Lisi to roll over on Ford.
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Hope that'll happen. That way they can actually charge him.

The shit has hit the fan so many times at this point that the fan might as well just be made of shit.
 
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gutter_trash

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I for one don't want this to end, I hope he gets re-elected.

We Montrealers need to laugh at little in a climate of shitty politics. Rob Ford is the anti-politician
 
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yyzjohn

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Azih said:
Honestly at this point the only way I can see things escalating (and this is after shit has hit the fan a dozen times over) is if the Toronto Police manage to get Sandro Lisi to roll over on Ford.
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This is the hope but also the problem. Let's say Lisi agrees to rat out Ford and testify against him, the Fords will attack Lisi as being a non reputable witness and at that point it's he said/she said. Of course Ford did put out a testimonial about what a great person Lisi was in the past, so his attacks on his character will seem like a 180 if it comes to that. Unless Lisi has some damning evidence against Ford in the form of documents/recordings that prove Ford was into illegal shit, there's not much there.
 
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OpinionatedCyborg said:
This is fucking surreal: http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/politics/archives/2013/11/20131118-205516.html

You can watch the entire first episode of the Rob Ford show there...

Also, a related video; http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/2849277947001 "Great men have great vices" lol. There are a lot of crack addict, wife beating, racist, ignorant, etc. people. Not all of them are great men.
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What a nice infomercial. And he didn't even have to pay for the air time.
 
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Acorn

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This dude is either a political genius or the people who are supporting him are suffering from stockholm syndrome.

Pollsters will write books on this guy, I expect to see David Cameron taking a sneaky line on the dispatch box before the next election for a poll boost.
 
Arkos

Arkos

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Professor Renegade said:
Saw this on the Toronto Sun last week, it was begging to be photoshopped.
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Saw this, thought "that's a big discrepancy in PS skills, why is the headline shopped so well." Then I remembered what the headline is for, and that it must be real. Hilarious.
 
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Liberty4all

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You Are Viewtiful said:
The province will now assume Norm Kelly as Mayor for all provincial-municipal functions.

Ouch.
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Honestly I started off as a Ford supporter and that has eroded away over the course of revelation after revelation. I'm at the point that I think it would be better if he stepped down.

With that said, none of these moves by the Council feels democratic at all. Ford was voted in with a clear majority. What's going to happen if he wins again next election (which isn't entirely impossible given Ford Nation's rabid support). Ignore the mandate he's been given by the people?

I don't exactly get the legality though of what's happened via the Council votes aside from it effectively neutering the mayor's ability to do his job. Arguments about the man aside, this move seems to be basically going against the mandate the office of the mayor has to lead.

So joyful spite aside, can the Council essentially strip the office of the Mayor of the powers that reside in it? It certainly appears so, however, I find it troubling not that Ford is being neutered but that the office of the Mayor who has been legally elected by the people can be essentially overthrown in all but name only.

Looking at Ford's specific situation, he still has many supporters. If anything the province should be allowing a municipal election to let the people decide ....
 
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dubq

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Bamelin, it's also no less democratic than opposition parties in a minority gov't being able to call an election based on a vote of confidence. I basically that council's actions as just that, actually. I'll take what Council is doing any day over what Ford was/is doing.

Also, clear majority? Try 47% of the popular vote.
 
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