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

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Azih

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Bamelin said:
I've always thought of Minnan-Wong as more middle of the road right but regardless your point is taken.
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I honestly though that Ford would be better than Lastman (with his MFP scandall) initially. I never in a million years expected Ford to lose support so completely from almost everyone like this or take it this far.
 
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Liberty4all

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Azih said:
I honestly though that Ford would be better than Lastman (with his MFP scandall) initially. I never in a million years expected Ford to lose support so completely from almost everyone like this or take it this far.
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Neither did I.

I enjoyed that he poked the left and drove them batty insane, but then he imploded in on himself with the drugs, gang association pics, prostitution allegations, drinking + driving and just overall crazy town.

I'm half certain that if an election were called, Ford will lose. Not fully certain though, Ford Nation is scary and I say that as a voter with a tendency to vote with the right.
 
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Dr.Acula

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The thing about Ford being "forced out undemocratically" is really because he won't step down. Which in itself is pretty unprecedented. Most politicians would step down. I'm really surprised the Senators in Ottawa didn't step down either. Seems like we're experiencing a cultural shift, and I don't like it.
 
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Stet

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Bamelin said:
Neither did I.

I enjoyed that he poked the left and drove them batty insane, but then he imploded in on himself with the drugs, gang association pics, prostitution allegations, drinking + driving and just overall crazy town.

I'm half certain that if an election were called, Ford will lose. Not fully certain though, Ford Nation is scary and I say that as a voter with a tendency to vote with the right.
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Politicians who exist to "poke" at other politicians are universally shit regardless of what their platform is.
 
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Dr.Acula

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Example: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/l...b-c-cabinet-over-ethnic-voter-scandal-1.84835

John Yap, advanced education minister and the minister responsible for multiculturalism, stepped down even though he said he was “caught completely off guard” by the leak of a government multicultural plan last week, which was written three months before he became minister.

“I am the minister responsible, this is an issue that involves multiculturalism, and the responsibility rests with me,” Yap told reporters.
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Resigning over what your predecessor did. Now that's Canadian.

It's like golf, you're expected to call your own penalties.
 
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Zips

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Bamelin said:
That's not true. It's easy to "poke" another politician when you hate each other's political stances.
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A politician's purpose is not to antagonize people with different views. It's to get things done and lead for the betterment of the people.

He said "existing" to poke, not doing it as a byproduct.
 
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Dr.Acula

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SunTV cancels Ford's show.

Less than 24 hours after its debut on Monday night, the conservative cable news channel axed Ford Nation, its highly touted TV talk show starring Rob and Doug Ford, despite record ratings for the network.

While Ford Nation pulled about 155,000 viewers, according to overnight ratings, it is a victim of the brutal economics of cable TV and the Fords’ relative inexperience with the medium: Monday’s episode took five hours to record, and another eight hours to edit, making it an unusually expensive endeavour for a niche network that is in only about 40 per cent of Canadian households.

“It’s by far the most successful thing, from an audience perspective, the network has ever done,” said Kory Teneycke, the vice president of Sun News. But the program would not be produced again.
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I really believe they did this only to get complaints against the Ford's for skirting election/campaigning law.

You heard it here first, it was a set-up!

Stupid Ford's, why would they even risk it?
 
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Divvy

Canadians burned my passport
Dr.Acula said:
SunTV cancels Ford's show.



I really believe they did this only to get complaints against the Ford's for skirting election/campaigning law.

You heard it here first, it was a set-up!

Stupid Ford's, why would they even risk it?
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If this was the most successful thing the Sun has ever one and it involved Rob Ford and was cancelled after one episode, what does this say about the Sun News Network?
 
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explodet

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Divvy said:
If this was the most successful thing the Sun has ever one and it involved Rob Ford and was cancelled after one episode, what does this say about the Sun News Network?
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Nothing that hasn't been already said before, trust me.

Sun Network has less viewership than the Fireplace Network.
 
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You Are Viewtiful

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Divvy said:
If this was the most successful thing the Sun has ever one and it involved Rob Ford and was cancelled after one episode, what does this say about the Sun News Network?
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It says what we already know. No one watches Sun News and a new record doesn't mean anything. Sun News is run by corporate donations and they were drying up once they gave Ford a show.
 
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Zombie James

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Takao

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I saw a Tweet from earlier in the day where Canadian Tire apologized for having an ad inadvertently air during Ford Nation. So now a retailer has blacklisted him, haha.
 
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Zombie James

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Interview with our new Mayor:

Q What was going through your mind when you saw the mayor approaching the audience in the council chambers on Monday, taunting them?

Kelly I had never seen anything like that before. At first I didn’t know what to make of it and when it became apparent, I was appalled. It was such an affront to the dignity of council, and an affront to the dignity of the people of Toronto [that he would be] engaging in … I’m reaching for words, I don’t know. I’m sitting there thinking, what the hell is going through your head that you feel compelled to do this? Someone was on the floor, speaking. He certainly hasn’t read Robert’s Rules of Order. [He laughs.] In a democratic forum you can have anger in your rhetoric, you can be explosive in your declamations but always there is a respect for the institution whose grounds you stand on and there was none visible at that time.
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Q What about the mayor wanting to keep the property tax hike at 1.75%?

Kelly I think you work towards that and you give it your best effort.

Q And what about cutting the land transfer tax?

Kelly That’s a tough one because it brings in so much money. [Even trimming it by 10%] you’re forgoing a lot of money. Now if you can figure out how to do it and preserve services, and the level of service, if someone can show me how to do it, I’m pragmatic.
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/1...powers/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Definite upgrade.
 
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Fuzzy

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Dr.Acula said:
Pfft, they started and stopped transit development so many times already, what's once more?
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As much as I'd like the Scarborough subway to be an LRT instead, Ford would use that in the election.

Ford "Before they "illegally" took away my power Scarborough was getting a subway and now it's a streetcar. Vote for me and I'll make it a subway again!"
 
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Blue Submarine No. 6

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Stopped by Universal Studios Florida for a couple days with my wife after a Caribbean cruise and still here now... Went to see the Beetlejuice Universal Monsters Rock'n'Roll Review today and at one point during the act between numbers, Beetlejuice comes stumbling out of a doorway from back stage, shrouded in smoke, coughing and waving his arms to clear the air, and he says "The Mayor of Toronto's back there" - huge laugh and applause...

Makes me proud to be Canadian. Really. The mayor of our largest city is so pathetic he's being made fun of by corpse standups.
 
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jstripes

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Fuzzy said:
As much as I'd like the Scarborough subway to be an LRT instead, Ford would use that in the election.

Ford "Before they "illegally" took away my power Scarborough was getting a subway and now it's a streetcar. Vote for me and I'll make it a subway again!"
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This is exactly it. Any motion on the Scarborough RT is going to turn into an election issue.

I wish they'd go back to the LRT plan, too. :/
 
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Blackhead

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Fuzzy said:
You know the funny thing? If he had stepped down for a short time and said he was going to a treatment centre he wouldn't have had anything taken away and would've come back in a lot better position for the election next year.
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Divvy said:
This, he might have won if he did that.
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iirc that's what his top staff (who have since resigned) was advising him back when gawker first announced the video but Ford was too stubborn to do the smart thing.

The gap between what should be happening and what Ford is doing is frankly amazing. The police got him under surveillance assaulting people, drunk driving and making exchanges (crack, mj?) with drug dealers; he probably should be in jail. Instead he's trying to get the police chief fired, refusing to resign and is already campaigning for the next election. *smh*
 
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yyzjohn

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Greyface said:
iirc that's what his top staff (who have since resigned) was advising him back when gawker first announced the video but Ford was too stubborn to do the smart thing.

The gap between what should be happening and what Ford is doing is frankly amazing. The police got him under surveillance assaulting people, drunk driving and making exchanges (crack, mj?) with drug dealers; he probably should be in jail. Instead he's trying to get the police chief fired, refusing to resign and is already campaigning for the next election. *smh*
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This is what I can't understand. The police have him under surveillance and not only is he not in jail, he's not even charged with anything. If he gets away scott free it's a huge blunder by police.
 
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Isn't it funny how we are having to endure all of this because of an ill-timed garbage workers strike?

I guess also the fact that this now suburb-ruled city simply wasn't ready for a gay mayor...
 
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dubq

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yyzjohn said:
This is what I can't understand. The police have him under surveillance and not only is he not in jail, he's not even charged with anything. If he gets away scott free it's a huge blunder by police.
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They can't charge him because they have no idea what is in the packages he was allegedly exchanging with Lisi. If you could arrest anyone with a suspicious manilla envelope we'd be living in a police state. What they need is for Lisi to roll over on him about the extortion, etc.
 
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AlphaTwo00

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Bamelin said:
I enjoyed that he poked the left and drove them batty insane,
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Literally, this: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/reginald-braithwaite/rob-ford_b_4220497.html

I've had more than my share of discussions about this on facebook with recently on this, and I don't know, I think I'm more sensible than "going batty insane", if it's proper political discourse, that's fine on it's own. It's the absolute refusal to step down and see how the other side is thinking at it, the me-first culture that is driving me to back away from it.
 
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gutter_trash

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jonnyp said:
Hahaha the gifs in the OP looks like it's from a comedy show. How could this guy get elected mayor?
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the previous mayor raised taxes on everything and pissed off everyone who was not part of the inteligencia. Ford campaigned on cutting those taxes and he did fulfill his promises.
+ Ford is a big hit in poor neighborhoods who were ignroed by the previous mayor.

Ford as a good chance of being re-elected in 2014
 
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Divvy

Canadians burned my passport
gutter_trash said:
the previous mayor raised taxes on everything and pissed off everyone who was not part of the inteligencia. Ford campaigned on cutting those taxes and he did fulfill his promises.
+ Ford is a big hit in poor neighborhoods who were ignroed by the previous mayor.

Ford as a good chance of being re-elected in 2014
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Can't tell if sarcasm
 
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