This story keeps getting darker. His relationship with these criminals certainly doesn't seem as casual as he has characterized it in the media.
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This story keeps getting darker. His relationship with these criminals certainly doesn't seem as casual as he has characterized it in the media.
If my mayor is going to be hanging out with all of these drug dealers/gangsters, I would have hoped that he would at least be an "alpha" type figure in those interactions.
The picture painted now is of a guy who is easily pushed around by these guys. They had him under their thumb, which is scary.
The fact is the whole bloody thing is really sad. We have a man who is imploding
and no one can convince him his time has come and gone. The other sad thing is
we have people who defend or look for excuses because he is a conservative and
others who lay it on as thick as they can because he is not conservative.
Yes they've limited his powers and that had to be done or the good name of the city
would be impuned. His family it would appear is as dysfunctional as he so they are
of no help. This whole thing will get a lot worse before it gets better. We have all
made our jokes and condemnations now its time to understand this is much worse
than we first imagined and this guy needs help more than anything.
and no one can convince him his time has come and gone. The other sad thing is
we have people who defend or look for excuses because he is a conservative and
others who lay it on as thick as they can because he is not conservative.
Yes they've limited his powers and that had to be done or the good name of the city
would be impuned. His family it would appear is as dysfunctional as he so they are
of no help. This whole thing will get a lot worse before it gets better. We have all
made our jokes and condemnations now its time to understand this is much worse
than we first imagined and this guy needs help more than anything.
The fact is we all knew he needed help long ago and he has been given every opportunity to get it.
This is a man who went on and on about how "hug-a-thug" programs were a waste of our taxpayer money and publicly stated that he was working on a way to legally run gangsters out of town. He needs a taste of his own prescription.
Your understanding of the underworld is at best incomplete-as Mayor he shouldn't be anywhere near any of these types-someone else should be doing all the running/fetching/acquiring and paying.
As it happens he was so sozzled/drunk/drugged/stupid on dope that he forgot who he was and where he was the petty lies that had taken him so far in life were no longer adequate.
Lol, as mayor i'd hope he simply wasn't involved with these guys in the first place.
If he was going to do this kind of thing, obviously your plan would be smarter than what he wound up doing.
I'm just saying that if he was going to run around with gangsters like this, you'd think he would only do so if he thought he could control them and keep them in line. Instead they were robbing him and blowing off his weak attempts to wield his "power" against them.
JNow it's heroin, bribery and drunik driving. Unless they can iomplicate him in the murder of that gangster, or unless he's on camera sodmozing a duck, I grow weary of fat clown.
Dear Mr. Cruickshank,
You know one reason why the Ford people were able to keep calling the Star's coverage a pack of lies for so long? Because from day one, your paper selfishly, gutlessly, and above all stupidly tried to cover up the fact that Gawker had already reported the existence of the video.
You had independent corroboration, and you were too small-minded and churlish to accept it. It was more important for the Star to trumpet a fake exclusive than to make the case against a corrupt mayor.
And now you praise your paper's solitary, courageous truth-telling. You are a sanctimonious fraud.
Sincerely,
Tom Scocca
features editor
Gawker
much more toronto rag star pwning here:
Tom Tips Back: Special Tom Tips Edition
h/t bcf
You know one reason why the Ford people were able to keep calling the Star's coverage a pack of lies for so long? Because from day one, your paper selfishly, gutlessly, and above all stupidly tried to cover up the fact that Gawker had already reported the existence of the video.
You had independent corroboration, and you were too small-minded and churlish to accept it. It was more important for the Star to trumpet a fake exclusive than to make the case against a corrupt mayor.
And now you praise your paper's solitary, courageous truth-telling. You are a sanctimonious fraud.
Sincerely,
Tom Scocca
features editor
Gawker
much more toronto rag star pwning here:
Tom Tips Back: Special Tom Tips Edition
h/t bcf
he can cut a line of crack, he can cut a rug. is there anything he can't do? 
Raw video: Mayor Ford & councillors dance at city hall
December 17, 2013
Mayor Rob Ford and members of council took time out during Tuesday’s meeting to dance in the chambers. It was all caught on video.
Mayor Ford & councillors dance at city hall | CityNews
Raw video: Mayor Ford & councillors dance at city hall
December 17, 2013
Mayor Rob Ford and members of council took time out during Tuesday’s meeting to dance in the chambers. It was all caught on video.
Mayor Ford & councillors dance at city hall | CityNews
Robbie Bobbie 2 on sale Friday
By Don Peat ,City Hall Bureau Chief
First posted: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 06:30 PM EST
Just in time for Christmas.
Mayor Rob Ford’s office announced the second edition of the mayor’s bobbleheads — dubbed the Robbie Bobbie — will go on sale on Friday thanks to “popular demand.”
“I think it looks like me,” Ford said as he signed a batch of the bobbleheads Wednesday.
Ford’s office will be selling another 1,000 bobbleheads starting at noon in the City Hall rotunda. The bobbleheads will cost $20 and a one per person limit will be enforced.
The proceeds from the sale of the first edition raised $12,000 for the city’s United Way campaign. This round of bobbleheads will raise cash for the Canadian Cancer Society.
Ford said he chose the cancer charity because of his own family’s experience.
Robbie Bobbie 2 on sale Friday | Home | Toronto Sun
By Don Peat ,City Hall Bureau Chief
First posted: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 06:30 PM EST
Just in time for Christmas.
Mayor Rob Ford’s office announced the second edition of the mayor’s bobbleheads — dubbed the Robbie Bobbie — will go on sale on Friday thanks to “popular demand.”
“I think it looks like me,” Ford said as he signed a batch of the bobbleheads Wednesday.
Ford’s office will be selling another 1,000 bobbleheads starting at noon in the City Hall rotunda. The bobbleheads will cost $20 and a one per person limit will be enforced.
The proceeds from the sale of the first edition raised $12,000 for the city’s United Way campaign. This round of bobbleheads will raise cash for the Canadian Cancer Society.
Ford said he chose the cancer charity because of his own family’s experience.
Robbie Bobbie 2 on sale Friday | Home | Toronto Sun
via Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors - Small Dead Animals
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Conrad Black: The Toronto Star’s ideological shakedown operation | National Post
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
In another aspect of the Ford controversy, a number of people have angrily sent me copies of a letter that the disgraceful John Honderich -- the chair of the board of Torstar Corporation (the Star's owner) and a former Star publisher -- assumedly approved for distribution to 70 prominent Torontonians, urging them to agitate for the mayor's removal in mid-term, and taking them to task as moral outcasts of the community for not joining in the full Christmas revelry of the Star's attempted putsch.
This is simply amazing.
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Conrad Black: The Toronto Star’s ideological shakedown operation | National Post
There is a reason that Black's writing is filed under "comment"(aka opinion). He is far from an unbiased arbiter. The guy has an ax to grind with half the people in the universe and is not exactly known for his humility.
Tried judged and convicted .Striped of all rights , thoughts and intelligence .
In fairness that also describes the usual suspects here who regularly stand up on their strong hind legs to defend Tubby Ford.
Now about that phony video.....
I am not just referencing someone else who is critical of Ford when making my arguments.
What phony video? The one Ford already admitted exists?
Yes the same 'phony video' that Tubby Ford has admitted exists-unless he's lying again.
hey Bill if I call an elected member of parliament ( Ms. May ) legislator ( Ms. James ) Tubby am I being politically correct or am I being
prejugdisial ? I mean I am just wondering because I ways always told that it not a pigs fault for feeding at the trough .