Tag: Rob Ford

Toronto Mayor John Tory Just Hired The Guy Who Ran Canada’s Worst Anti-Immigrant Campaign, Again

Published July 30, 2018 News

John Tory has re-hired Nick Kouvalis, a controversial conservative strategist who managed campaigns for Rob Ford and Kellie Leitch

Canada’s cities don’t have a spending problem. They have a revenue problem.

Published September 30, 2016

Right-wing politicians are going to tell you Canada's cities have a spending problem. They're wrong.

Rob Ford: law-and-order hypocrite

Published May 1, 2014

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is off to rehab after fresh evidence surfaced of his weekend crack use. The pipe pictures were leaked to the media alongside an audio recording of Ford’s latest drunken tirade at a bar on Monday night, where he attacks gays (again), denegrates a female mayoral candidate with sexually lewd comments (again), and utters […]

Dear Rob Ford: This is what mayors who aren’t homophobic look like

Published March 17, 2014

It’s St. Patrick’s Day, and Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York is skipping the city’s traditional St Paddy’s day parade. The issue? March participants aren’t allowed to carry gay pride signs. The move by de Blasio, the first NYC mayor in decades to skip the parade, comes a day after Boston’s new mayor, Marty […]

Rob Ford: I’m homophobic and “I’m not going to change the way I am”

Published February 6, 2014

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has finally dropped his longstanding excuse for skipping pride parades. Up until now, Ford has said that scheduled vacations to the family cottage have always got in the way, so he couldn’t possibly attend pride events in Canada’s largest city. Ford dropped that pretence this week at the first candidates’ forum […]

Tough on crime — sometimes

Published November 6, 2013

What a remarkable 24 hours. Not long after Toronto mayor Rob Ford admitted Tuesday that he has smoked crack during his tenure as mayor, Ford’s political allies in the Conservative government in Ottawa surfaced to express compassion for a man who appears to be battling some personal demons. “Schadenfreude can be so incredibly ugly. Particularly […]

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