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href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4" title="Роб Форд – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Роб Форд" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford" title="Rob Ford – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Rob Ford" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford" title="Rob Ford – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Rob Ford" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford" title="Rob Ford – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Rob Ford" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford" title="Rob Ford – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Rob Ford" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A8_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF" title="راب فورد – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="راب فورد" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford" title="Rob Ford – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Rob Ford" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford" title="Rob Ford – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Rob Ford" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A1%AD_%ED%8F%AC%EB%93%9C" title="롭 포드 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="롭 포드" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford" title="Rob Ford – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Rob Ford" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertus_Bruce_Ford" title="Robertus Bruce Ford – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Robertus Bruce Ford" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8_%D9%81%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF" title="روب فورد – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="روب فورد" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford" title="Rob Ford – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Rob Ford" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AD%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89" title="ロブ・フォード – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ロブ・フォード" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford" title="Rob Ford – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Rob Ford" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a 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mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%83%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D" title="ராப் ஃபோர்ட் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="ராப் ஃபோர்ட்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford" title="Rob Ford – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Rob Ford" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1_%D0%A4%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B4" title="Роб Форд – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Роб Форд" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" 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background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">64th <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Toronto" title="Mayor of Toronto">Mayor of Toronto</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />December 1, 2010 – November 30, 2014</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Deputy_Mayor_of_Toronto" title="Deputy Mayor of Toronto">Deputy</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Holyday" title="Doug Holyday">Doug Holyday</a> (2010–2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norm_Kelly" title="Norm Kelly">Norm Kelly</a> (2013–2014)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Miller_(Canadian_politician)" title="David Miller (Canadian politician)">David Miller</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Tory" title="John Tory">John Tory</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Toronto_City_Councillor" class="mw-redirect" title="Toronto City Councillor">Toronto City Councillor</a><br />for <a href="/wiki/Ward_1_Etobicoke_North" title="Ward 1 Etobicoke North">Ward 2 Etobicoke North</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />December 1, 2014 – March 22, 2016</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Doug_Ford" title="Doug Ford">Doug Ford</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Ford_(politician)" title="Michael Ford (politician)">Michael Ford</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />November 14, 2000 – November 30, 2010</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i>Ward established</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Doug_Ford" title="Doug Ford">Doug Ford</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Robert Bruce Ford</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1969-05-28</span>)</span>May 28, 1969<br /><a href="/wiki/Etobicoke" title="Etobicoke">Etobicoke</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>, Canada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">March 22, 2016<span style="display:none">(2016-03-22)</span> (aged 46)<br /><a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>, Canada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Park_Lawn_Cemetery#Other_cemetery_locations" title="Park Lawn Cemetery">Riverside Cemetery</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politician)">Independent</a> (2000–2016)<sup id="cite_ref-fn1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fn1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario">Progressive Conservative</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Renata Brejniak</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 2000)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relations</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Ford_Sr." title="Doug Ford Sr.">Doug Ford Sr.</a> (father)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Ford" title="Doug Ford">Doug Ford</a> (brother)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Ford_(politician)" title="Michael Ford (politician)">Michael Ford</a> (nephew)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krista_Haynes" title="Krista Haynes">Krista Haynes</a> (niece)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Carleton_University" title="Carleton University">Carleton University</a> (no degree)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Robert Bruce Ford</b> (May 28, 1969 – March 22, 2016) was a Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Toronto" title="Mayor of Toronto">mayor of Toronto</a> from 2010 to 2014. Before and after his term as mayor, Ford was a city councillor representing Ward 2 Etobicoke North. He was first elected to <a href="/wiki/Toronto_City_Council" title="Toronto City Council">Toronto City Council</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2000_Toronto_municipal_election" title="2000 Toronto municipal election">2000 municipal election</a>, before being re-elected to his council seat twice. </p><p>His political career, particularly his mayoralty, saw a number of personal and work-related controversies and legal proceedings.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, he became embroiled in <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Rob_Ford_video_scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of Rob Ford video scandal">a substance abuse scandal</a>, which was widely reported in national and foreign media.<sup id="cite_ref-sun-ford-legacy_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sun-ford-legacy-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nationalpost1_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nationalpost1-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-guardian_stupor_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian_stupor-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following his admission, Ford refused to resign, but the city council voted to hand over certain mayoral powers and office staff to <a href="/wiki/Deputy_Mayor_of_Toronto" title="Deputy Mayor of Toronto">Deputy Mayor</a> <a href="/wiki/Norm_Kelly" title="Norm Kelly">Norm Kelly</a> for the remainder of Ford's term.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-powers_removed_cbc_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-powers_removed_cbc-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-more_powers_taken_cbc_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-more_powers_taken_cbc-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ford took a sabbatical and received treatment for his alcohol and drug <a href="/wiki/Addiction" title="Addiction">addiction</a>. Despite the scandal, Ford initially contested the <a href="/wiki/2014_Toronto_mayoral_election" title="2014 Toronto mayoral election">next mayoral election</a>, scheduled for October 2014,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but after being hospitalized and diagnosed with an abdominal <a href="/wiki/Neoplasm" title="Neoplasm">tumour</a> in September 2014, Ford withdrew from the mayoral race and registered instead to run for his old city council seat.<sup id="cite_ref-municipalelection_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-municipalelection-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Tory" title="John Tory">John Tory</a> succeeded him as mayor on December 1, 2014, while Ford regained his former seat. Ford received treatment for the cancer, and was able to return briefly to council, but died in March 2016 after <a href="/wiki/Chemotherapy" title="Chemotherapy">chemotherapy</a> was ineffective. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Scarlett_Heights_Entrepreneurial_Academy.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Scarlett_Heights_Entrepreneurial_Academy.JPG/220px-Scarlett_Heights_Entrepreneurial_Academy.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Scarlett_Heights_Entrepreneurial_Academy.JPG/330px-Scarlett_Heights_Entrepreneurial_Academy.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Scarlett_Heights_Entrepreneurial_Academy.JPG/440px-Scarlett_Heights_Entrepreneurial_Academy.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a><figcaption>Ford was born in Etobicoke, where he attended <a href="/wiki/Scarlett_Heights_Entrepreneurial_Academy" title="Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy">Scarlett Heights Collegiate</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>Ford was born in <a href="/wiki/Etobicoke" title="Etobicoke">Etobicoke</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>, Canada, in 1969, the youngest of the four children (<a href="/wiki/Doug_Ford" title="Doug Ford">Doug</a>, Kathy, Randy, and Rob) of Ruth Diane (<span title="Name at birth"><a href="/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names" title="Birth name">née</a></span> Campbell) and <a href="/wiki/Doug_Ford_Sr." title="Doug Ford Sr.">Douglas Bruce Ford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His paternal grandparents were English immigrants.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father, along with Ted Herriott, was co-founder of <a href="/wiki/Deco_Labels" title="Deco Labels">Deco Labels and Tags</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201430_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201430-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which makes pressure-sensitive labels for plastic-wrapped grocery products at an estimated <span style="white-space: nowrap">CA$100 million</span> in annual sales,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201243_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201243-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was a <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario">Progressive Conservative</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Provincial_Parliament_(Ontario)" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)">member of the Provincial Parliament</a> (MPP) from 1995 to 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ford attended <a href="/wiki/Scarlett_Heights_Entrepreneurial_Academy" title="Scarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy">Scarlett Heights Collegiate Institute</a> in Etobicoke.<sup id="cite_ref-ConfusingUniversity_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ConfusingUniversity-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He dreamed of becoming a professional <a href="/wiki/Gridiron_football" title="Gridiron football">football</a> player, and his father paid for him to attend special camps of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Notre_Dame" title="University of Notre Dame">University of Notre Dame</a> and of <a href="/wiki/Washington_Commanders" title="Washington Commanders">Washington's NFL franchise</a>. After graduating from high school, Ford went to <a href="/wiki/Carleton_University" title="Carleton University">Carleton University</a> in Ottawa to study <a href="/wiki/Political_science" title="Political science">political science</a>. He made the football squad, but did not play in any games. He left Carleton after one year to return to Toronto and did not complete his degree.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201243_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201243-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ConfusingUniversity_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ConfusingUniversity-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Carleton, he started a sales job at Deco.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201243_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201243-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Doug Ford Sr.'s death in 2006, the Ford family retained ownership of Deco Labels through the Doug Ford Holdings corporation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201243_16-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201243-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lorinc-gm_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lorinc-gm-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford, alongside his brothers and their mother was a director of the company.<sup id="cite_ref-lorinc-gm_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lorinc-gm-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2000, Ford married Renata Brejniak, whom he had met in high school,<sup id="cite_ref-tl-who-is-renata_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tl-who-is-renata-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at All Saints Roman Catholic Church in Etobicoke. They had been dating since Brejniak's divorce from her first husband in February 1996.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201452_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201452-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford lived with Renata and their two children, Stephanie and Doug, in Etobicoke until his death in 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-FordCityOfToronto_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FordCityOfToronto-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="City_councillor">City councillor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: City councillor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:City_Hall,_Toronto,_Ontario.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/City_Hall%2C_Toronto%2C_Ontario.jpg/220px-City_Hall%2C_Toronto%2C_Ontario.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/City_Hall%2C_Toronto%2C_Ontario.jpg/330px-City_Hall%2C_Toronto%2C_Ontario.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/City_Hall%2C_Toronto%2C_Ontario.jpg/440px-City_Hall%2C_Toronto%2C_Ontario.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3177" data-file-height="2376" /></a><figcaption>Ford served as a city councillor on <a href="/wiki/Toronto_City_Council" title="Toronto City Council">Toronto City Council</a> from 2000 to 2010.</figcaption></figure> <p>Ford served three terms as city councillor from 2000 until October 2010, representing Ward 2 Etobicoke North. During his term as councillor, Ford was a strong critic of councillors' spending.<sup id="cite_ref-city-20070424_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-city-20070424-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-tgm-2003-10-03_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tgm-2003-10-03-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford was known for his controversial comments and passionate arguments at council.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ford first ran for <a href="/wiki/Toronto_City_Council" title="Toronto City Council">Toronto City Council</a> in <a href="/wiki/1997_Toronto_municipal_election" title="1997 Toronto municipal election">1997</a>, placing fourth to <a href="/wiki/Gloria_Lindsay_Luby" title="Gloria Lindsay Luby">Gloria Lindsay Luby</a> in Ward 3 Kingsway-Humber. Ford ran for councillor in Ward 2 Etobicoke North in the following election in <a href="/wiki/2000_Toronto_municipal_election" title="2000 Toronto municipal election">2000</a>, getting the endorsement of the <i><a href="/wiki/Toronto_Star" title="Toronto Star">Toronto Star</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford defeated incumbent Elizabeth Brown in what was considered one of several upsets in Etobicoke. According to Ford, "the people said they wanted change and they got change".<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ward 2 is located in the north-west corner of the city in the former city of Etobicoke. The ward's population of over 50,000 in 2006 was 53% composed of immigrants, the largest group being South Asians. It is mixed in nature with 40% of dwellings being single-family detached homes and 35% being high-rise apartments.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is also known as an area that has seen gang violence, including six murders in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ford had previously resided in the ward, but moved in 2000 prior to the election, after his marriage, to Ward 4. In 2003, Ford was re-elected with 80% of the vote in Ward 2,<sup id="cite_ref-tor-2003-results_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tor-2003-results-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> defeating two candidates from the local Somali community.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/2006_Toronto_municipal_election" title="2006 Toronto municipal election">2006 election</a>, Ford won again, defeating Somali-Canadian candidate Cadigia Ali, this time with 66% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2001_municipal_budget">2001 municipal budget</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 2001 municipal budget"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>It was during the 2001 budget deliberations that Ford earned a reputation for passionate speeches. The <a href="/wiki/Municipal_government_of_Toronto" title="Municipal government of Toronto">City of Toronto</a> was facing a several hundred million dollar budget shortfall, enough to require a 32% tax increase after the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Ontario" title="Government of Ontario">Government of Ontario</a> shifted the delivery of services from itself to Toronto, who would have to then pay for them. Toronto Mayor <a href="/wiki/Mel_Lastman" title="Mel Lastman">Mel Lastman</a> was pleading with other governments for financial assistance. According to Don Wanagas, the <i><a href="/wiki/National_Post" title="National Post">National Post</a></i> City Hall columnist, the other councillors began to dread when Ford rose to speak. "I have to give my head a shake because some of the rhetoric that comes out of the mouths of some of these councillors boggles my mind, I swear.<span class="nowrap"> </span>... Get the government out of our backyards. It's ridiculous. Government red tape here. Bureaucratic here. It's nonsense having all this government. And it's nonsense. It's so ridiculous. If you don't like what the province is doing, there's going to be an election in June of '03 – before our election, by the way."<sup id="cite_ref-gm-wanagas-2001-03-10_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gm-wanagas-2001-03-10-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Councillor <a href="/wiki/Anne_Johnston" title="Anne Johnston">Anne Johnston</a> proposed giving Ford a "neo-con award of the day", while Councillor <a href="/wiki/Joe_Pantalone" title="Joe Pantalone">Joe Pantalone</a> advised Ford to take <a href="/wiki/Prozac" class="mw-redirect" title="Prozac">Prozac</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-gm-wanagas-2001-03-10_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gm-wanagas-2001-03-10-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford argued against spending money on the suicide prevention barrier on the <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Viaduct" title="Prince Edward Viaduct">Prince Edward Viaduct</a>, and spending it instead on rounding up child molesters "who are the main cause of people jumping off bridges".<sup id="cite_ref-gm-wanagas-2001-03-10_34-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gm-wanagas-2001-03-10-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ford proposed a cut to each councillor's $200,000 office budget, money for travel to conferences, ending city limousine usage and club memberships. According to Ford, "if we wiped out the perks for council members, we'd save $100 million easy."<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford was one of only four councillors who voted against a 5% increase in property taxes for 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford made a point of not using his allotted city budget for his office expenses, paying for the expenses from his salary. He claimed $10 for his first year, and $4 for his second year. In Ford's opinion, "all this office budget stuff is self-promotion to benefit yourself. Why should the taxpayers have to pay for it? It boggles my mind."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2002_municipal_budget">2002 municipal budget</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2002 municipal budget"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the debates around the 2002 municipal budget, Ford and Councillor <a href="/wiki/Giorgio_Mammoliti" title="Giorgio Mammoliti">Giorgio Mammoliti</a> got in several heated exchanges, where Mammolitti called Ford a "goon" and Ford called Mammolitti a "scammer". The argument got heated to the point where Ford called Mammolitti a "Gino-boy". Mammolitti called the insult a "racist remark" and filed a complaint with the city's human-rights office. Three councillors stated that they heard the insult said by Ford, who denied it. Ford dismissed the councillors stating that they were liars if they thought he had made a racist remark. "I'm a conservative and the majority of people are left-wing and cannot stand my politics."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The exchanges led Councillor <a href="/wiki/Pam_McConnell" title="Pam McConnell">Pam McConnell</a> to complain about "testosterone poisoning" in the chamber. Ford extended his exchanges outside the chamber with columnist John Barber of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Globe_and_Mail" title="The Globe and Mail">The Globe and Mail</a></i>: "I am not a racist. Anyone who calls me a racist is going to face the consequences!", to which Barber replied "You are a racist."<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2003_municipal_election">2003 municipal election</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2003 municipal election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/2003_Toronto_municipal_election" title="2003 Toronto municipal election">2003 municipal election</a>, Ford endorsed twelve political candidates on a platform of fiscal responsibility to take on fellow councillors: "We just need to get rid of these lifelong politicians that just give out money to special interest groups and don't serve the community. I'm really teed off. We need to get a new council or this city is going to go down the drain."<sup id="cite_ref-tgm-2003-10-03_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tgm-2003-10-03-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford targeted <a href="/wiki/Brian_Ashton_(politician)" title="Brian Ashton (politician)">Brian Ashton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maria_Augimeri" title="Maria Augimeri">Maria Augimeri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sandra_Bussin" title="Sandra Bussin">Sandra Bussin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Olivia_Chow" title="Olivia Chow">Olivia Chow</a>, Pam McConnell, <a href="/wiki/Howard_Moscoe" title="Howard Moscoe">Howard Moscoe</a><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Sherene Shaw.<sup id="cite_ref-tgm-2003-10-03_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tgm-2003-10-03-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shaw was defeated by Ford's future budget chief <a href="/wiki/Michael_Del_Grande" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael Del Grande">Michael Del Grande</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-tor-2003-results_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tor-2003-results-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while the rest were re-elected.<sup id="cite_ref-tor-2003-results_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tor-2003-results-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ford made a priority of responding to local constituents' problems, often returning calls himself or meeting with city staff to resolve problems.<sup id="cite_ref-gm-2004-07-23_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gm-2004-07-23-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005, local radio station AM 640 tested councillors on their response by having a reporter make an after-hours call to report a pothole. Ford was one of only three councillors to call back in person, within a day.<sup id="cite_ref-gm-2005-03-25_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gm-2005-03-25-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His zeal in attending to constituents' problems became a competitive rivalry with fellow councillors Howard Moscoe and Gloria Lindsay Luby.<sup id="cite_ref-gm-2004-07-23_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gm-2004-07-23-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gm-2005-03-25_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gm-2005-03-25-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2006, Ford spoke out against the city donating $1.5 million to help prevent <a href="/wiki/AIDS" class="mw-redirect" title="AIDS">AIDS</a>, arguing that most taxpayers should not be concerned with AIDS.<sup id="cite_ref-city-2006_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-city-2006-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford publicly apologized for the comments in May 2010 during his mayoral campaign after his opponent, <a href="/wiki/George_Smitherman" title="George Smitherman">George Smitherman</a>, called Ford's character into question over the remarks.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At a council meeting on March 5, 2008, Ford stated "Those Oriental people work like dogs", a remark he later formally apologized for while stating that he meant it as a compliment.<sup id="cite_ref-city-asian_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-city-asian-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 7, 2007, Ford spoke out against cyclists sharing roads with motorists, which were "built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes".<sup id="cite_ref-bicycling.com_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bicycling.com-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As councillor, Ford opposed the installation of bike lanes on <a href="/wiki/University_Avenue_(Toronto)" title="University Avenue (Toronto)">University Avenue</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jarvis_Street" title="Jarvis Street">Jarvis Street</a> and during his election campaign, proposed spending money on off-road cycle paths.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bike lanes were installed on Jarvis in 2010 over the objection of traffic advocates, and Ford made it a priority to get them removed during his campaign. As mayor, he was able to get council to reverse the decision in 2011, a move which was criticized by cycling advocates and led to protests.<sup id="cite_ref-spurr-nowtoronto_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spurr-nowtoronto-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Jarvis bike lanes, which cost the city $86,000 to install in 2011, were removed in December 2012 at a cost of $200,000–$300,000.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the same time, physically separated bike lanes on <a href="/wiki/Sherbourne_Street,_Toronto" title="Sherbourne Street, Toronto">Sherbourne Street</a> were installed.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Toronto Cyclist Union president Andrea Garcia praised the Sherbourne lanes installation: "Cities all across North America that are doing way more innovative things for cyclists have been building separated bike lanes for a long time<span class="nowrap"> </span>... It's great to finally see Toronto catch up." However, she also regretted the loss of lanes on Jarvis: "People live and work and go to school on both of these streets and they all need a safe way to get to these places."<sup id="cite_ref-spurr-nowtoronto_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spurr-nowtoronto-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010_Toronto_mayoral_election">2010 Toronto mayoral election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2010 Toronto mayoral election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2010_Toronto_mayoral_election" title="2010 Toronto mayoral election">2010 Toronto mayoral election</a></div> <p>Ford was elected mayor with 383,501 votes (47%) over George Smitherman's 289,832 (35.6%) and Joe Pantalone with 95,482 (11.7%). The voter turnout was around 52% of registered voters, the highest in Toronto's <a href="/wiki/Amalgamation_of_Toronto" title="Amalgamation of Toronto">post-amalgamation history</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-eyeweekly.com_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eyeweekly.com-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ward-by-ward electoral results showed that Ford had won all of the former pre-amalgamation suburbs, while Smitherman topped districts in the pre-amalgamation Toronto districts. Ford received 80,000 votes from the "Downtown 13" wards, or 20% of his total votes.<sup id="cite_ref-network.nationalpost.com_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-network.nationalpost.com-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford ran on a populist platform of fiscal conservatism and subway expansion.<sup id="cite_ref-Rob_Ford_elected_mayor_of_Toronto_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rob_Ford_elected_mayor_of_Toronto-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the campaign, the scandals benefited Ford. After his <a href="/wiki/Driving_under_the_influence" title="Driving under the influence">driving under the influence</a> (DUI) conviction became public, his share of the vote increased 10%. After it was revealed he was banned from high school coaching, he raised <span style="white-space: nowrap">CA$25,000</span> in campaign contributions overnight.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201417_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201417-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mayor">Mayor</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Mayor"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Mayoralty_of_Rob_Ford" title="Mayoralty of Rob Ford">Mayoralty of Rob Ford</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rob_Ford_Trinity_Bellwoods_Park_Toronto_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Rob_Ford_Trinity_Bellwoods_Park_Toronto_2010.jpg/250px-Rob_Ford_Trinity_Bellwoods_Park_Toronto_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Rob_Ford_Trinity_Bellwoods_Park_Toronto_2010.jpg/375px-Rob_Ford_Trinity_Bellwoods_Park_Toronto_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Rob_Ford_Trinity_Bellwoods_Park_Toronto_2010.jpg/500px-Rob_Ford_Trinity_Bellwoods_Park_Toronto_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="609" /></a><figcaption>Ford at a Toronto Maple Leafs practice in Trinity Bellwoods Park, 2010.</figcaption></figure><p> After the election, Ford had outgoing councillor <a href="/wiki/Case_Ootes" title="Case Ootes">Case Ootes</a>, a former City of Toronto budget chief, head the "transition team". From his campaign team, Ford named <a href="/wiki/Nick_Kouvalis" title="Nick Kouvalis">Nick Kouvalis</a> as his chief of staff;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201246_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201246-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Mark_Towhey" title="Mark Towhey">Mark Towhey</a>, who had drafted his campaign platform, as his policy advisor;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201248_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201248-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Adrienne_Batra" title="Adrienne Batra">Adrienne Batra</a>, his communications advisor, as press secretary.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Councillor <a href="/wiki/Doug_Holyday" title="Doug Holyday">Doug Holyday</a>, who had helped elect Doug Ford Sr., was named deputy mayor.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201245_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcDonald201245-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the executive committee of City Council, Ford named councillors who had endorsed him in his campaign. For the inauguration ceremony at the first meeting of the new council, Ford had television commentator <a href="/wiki/Don_Cherry_(hockey)" class="mw-redirect" title="Don Cherry (hockey)">Don Cherry</a> introduce him and put the chain of office on him. Cherry garnered some controversy with his remarks. Cherry described how Ford had reversed a mistake of city staff cutting down a tree of a Toronto property owner for no good reason and then billing the property owner, who suffered from Alzheimer's. Cherry added "Put that in your pipe you left-wing kooks" and, in regards to the pink suit he was wearing, "I'm wearing pinko for all the pinkos out there that ride bicycles and everything, I thought I'd get it in."<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At its first meeting in December 2010, the council voted to cancel the annual $60 personal vehicle registration tax passed by the previous council. The tax cancellation, a campaign promise of Ford's, took effect on January 1, 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Toronto_new_years_levee_2012_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Toronto_new_years_levee_2012_%282%29.jpg/220px-Toronto_new_years_levee_2012_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Toronto_new_years_levee_2012_%282%29.jpg/330px-Toronto_new_years_levee_2012_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Toronto_new_years_levee_2012_%282%29.jpg/440px-Toronto_new_years_levee_2012_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1363" /></a><figcaption>Ford at the annual Mayor's New Year's Levee at Toronto City Hall.</figcaption></figure> <p>During the first year in office, the council mostly endorsed Ford's proposals. Ford privatized garbage pickup west of <a href="/wiki/Yonge_Street" title="Yonge Street">Yonge Street</a>. Previously, only Etobicoke had privatized waste removal. Ford's first year as mayor in 2011 saw no property tax increase, and subsequent years' increases were less than the rate of inflation.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Under Ford, council voted to declare the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Transit_Commission" title="Toronto Transit Commission">TTC</a> an essential service. Ford reduced, but was unable to completely remove, the Miller-era land transfer tax.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the summer of 2013, City Council endorsed Ford's plan to cancel the "Transit City" transit plan and build the <a href="/wiki/Scarborough_Subway_Extension" class="mw-redirect" title="Scarborough Subway Extension">Scarborough Subway Extension</a> fulfilling one of Ford's main campaign promises.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This project was later approved and received funding both provincially and federally.<sup id="cite_ref-Harper_pledges_federal_funding_for_Toronto's_subway_extension_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harper_pledges_federal_funding_for_Toronto's_subway_extension-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ottawa_will_help_pay_for_Scarborough_subway_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ottawa_will_help_pay_for_Scarborough_subway-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Major_transit_announcement_incoming:_Harper_expected_to_boost_TTC_funding_during_Toronto_visit_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Major_transit_announcement_incoming:_Harper_expected_to_boost_TTC_funding_during_Toronto_visit-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In later years, Council would reject Ford's transit plans, including not putting the Crosstown LRT underground for its entire route. Near the end of Ford's term, Ford's powers were reduced by Council, spurred by Ford's personal problems, most notably reports of a video showing <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Rob_Ford_video_scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of Rob Ford video scandal">Ford smoking crack cocaine</a>. </p><p>Rob Ford's brother <a href="/wiki/Doug_Ford" title="Doug Ford">Doug Ford</a> was the Toronto city councillor for Ward 2 Etobicoke North in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a> from 2010 to 2014, during Rob's term as mayor.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2014_election">2014 election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 2014 election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/2014_Toronto_mayoral_election" title="2014 Toronto mayoral election">2014 Toronto mayoral election</a> and <a href="/wiki/Toronto_municipal_election,_2014" class="mw-redirect" title="Toronto municipal election, 2014">Toronto municipal election, 2014</a></div> <p>Ford registered on January 2, 2014, as a candidate in the fall's mayoral election. Ford participated in several debates but went on a leave of absence in May and June to deal with his substance abuse issues after a video surfaced of him smoking <a href="/wiki/Crack_cocaine" title="Crack cocaine">crack cocaine</a>. Ford returned from his leave of absence in July and was polling in second place, behind <a href="/wiki/John_Tory" title="John Tory">John Tory</a> and ahead of <a href="/wiki/Olivia_Chow" title="Olivia Chow">Olivia Chow</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On September 12, 2014, Ford suddenly withdrew his candidacy due to the discovery of a tumour in his abdomen which was suspected to be, and subsequently confirmed to be cancerous. His brother Doug registered as a mayoral candidate in Ford's place and Ford instead registered as a candidate for city councillor in his old constituency of Ward 2 Etobicoke North. Doug Ford, with 33% of the vote, was defeated in the October 27 mayoral election by Tory, who received 40%, while Rob Ford was successful in Ward 2, being elected with 58% of the vote.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford's term as mayor ended on November 30, 2014. He stated that he intended to run for mayor again in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Football_coaching">Football coaching</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Football coaching"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ford volunteered his time to coach high school <a href="/wiki/Canadian_football" title="Canadian football">football</a>. Ford first coached at <a href="/wiki/Newtonbrook_Secondary_School" title="Newtonbrook Secondary School">Newtonbrook Secondary School</a> in 2001, until he was dismissed over a dispute with a player.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He coached at <a href="/wiki/Don_Bosco_Catholic_Secondary_School" title="Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School">Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School</a> from 2001 until 2013 when the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Catholic_District_School_Board" title="Toronto Catholic District School Board">Toronto Catholic District School Board</a> dismissed him after a controversial television interview led to a review of his coaching.<sup id="cite_ref-star-20130522-football_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-star-20130522-football-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford had donated $20,000 to equip the Don Bosco team and started a foundation, called the Rob Ford Football Foundation, to fund teams at other underprivileged schools struggling to field football teams.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2017, Toronto Mayor <a href="/wiki/John_Tory" title="John Tory">John Tory</a>, along with Councillor <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Holyday" title="Stephen Holyday">Stephen Holyday</a> and the Ford family, proposed renaming <a href="/wiki/Centennial_Park_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Centennial Park Stadium">Centennial Park Stadium</a> to Rob Ford Memorial Stadium to honour Ford's coaching. City council rejected the proposal, 24–11 in a vote on October 5, 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Domestic_disturbances">Domestic disturbances</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Domestic disturbances"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2008, after a <a href="/wiki/9-1-1" class="mw-redirect" title="9-1-1">9-1-1</a> call from the Ford home, he was charged with assault and threatening to kill his wife. The Crown attorney said "there was no reasonable prospect of conviction" because there were "credibility issues" with allegations by Ford's wife due to inconsistencies in her statements. Ford said at the time that he was glad the ordeal was over and that he and his wife had sought marital counselling.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In two separate incidents, on October 25, 2011, and again on December 25, 2011, police were called to Ford's home to investigate domestic disputes. During the Christmas Day incident, his mother-in-law called 9-1-1 between <span class="nowrap">4:00 – 5:00 a.m.</span> local time as she was concerned that Ford had been drinking and was going to take his children to Florida against his wife's wishes. No charges were filed for either incident.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Further domestic incident calls to police occurred in 2012 and on August 27, 2013. Again, no charges were filed.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alcohol_and_drug_addiction">Alcohol and drug addiction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Alcohol and drug addiction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rob-ford-miami-mugshot.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Rob-ford-miami-mugshot.jpg/220px-Rob-ford-miami-mugshot.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="276" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Rob-ford-miami-mugshot.jpg/330px-Rob-ford-miami-mugshot.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Rob-ford-miami-mugshot.jpg 2x" data-file-width="374" data-file-height="469" /></a><figcaption>Mugshot in Miami, Florida (1999).</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Rob_Ford_video_scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="Timeline of Rob Ford video scandal">Timeline of Rob Ford video scandal</a></div> <p>Ford suffered from alcohol and drug addiction for many years. After the death of his father in 2006, Ford's abuse grew and led to public episodes of intoxication, followed by public denials. His episodes, which were symptomatic of alcohol and drug addiction,<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-g&m20131113_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g&m20131113-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> were reported in the media widely, and attracted much condemnation.<sup id="cite_ref-g&m20131113_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-g&m20131113-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford's abuse led to him being stripped of much of his powers as Toronto mayor, and he later entered <a href="/wiki/Drug_rehabilitation" title="Drug rehabilitation">drug rehabilitation</a>. </p><p>On April 15, 2006, Ford attended a <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Maple_Leafs" title="Toronto Maple Leafs">Toronto Maple Leafs</a> hockey game at the <a href="/wiki/Air_Canada_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Air Canada Centre">Air Canada Centre</a>. According to a couple nearby, Ford was intoxicated, using profanity, and insulting people. The couple then sent a detailed complaint to the City of Toronto.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201479_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201479-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When confronted about the episode three days later by a <i><a href="/wiki/National_Post" title="National Post">National Post</a></i> reporter, Ford initially denied having been at the game, but later admitted it.<sup id="cite_ref-cbc-2015-11-10_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cbc-2015-11-10-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "I'm going through a few personal problems, but it doesn't justify, you know, getting drunk in public and pretty well acting like an idiot if you ask me."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201480_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201480-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The death of Rob Ford's father, Doug Ford Sr., in September 2006 due to cancer has been pinpointed as the time period when Ford transitioned to crack cocaine in addition to alcohol.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201480–81_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201480–81-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A convicted heroin dealer who used to supply Ford's sister Kathy recalled a party with Ford around that time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201481_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201481-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to reporter Robyn Doolittle, Ford would come home at night and either drink heavily or use hard drugs or prescription pills.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201480–81_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201480–81-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During Ford's 2010 mayoral campaign, a 1999 arrest in <a href="/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami</a>, <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a> for DUI and marijuana possession became an election issue for him when the <i>Toronto Star</i> published details of his arrest. Ford pleaded no contest to the DUI charge, while the marijuana charge was withdrawn. Ford was given a fine.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When first confronted, Ford denied it. When presented with the arrest paperwork, Ford apologized and claimed he had forgotten about it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201417_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201417-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He then announced at a press conference that he had been charged with failing to provide a breath sample, when he had been arrested and convicted of drunk driving.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201417_55-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle201417-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At <a href="/wiki/Saint_Patrick%27s_Day" title="Saint Patrick's Day">Saint Patrick's Day</a> festivities in March 2012, Ford was "very intoxicated" at City Hall and a downtown restaurant.<sup id="cite_ref-sun-2013-1101_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sun-2013-1101-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to those attending, he held a "wild party" in his office. Ford knocked down a staffer, insulted others, then went to a restaurant. According to one server, Ford did cocaine in a private room at the restaurant. After "flailing around" on the restaurant's dance floor, he returned to City Hall by cab, making racial slurs to the driver. Ford then wandered around City Hall after 2:00<span class="nowrap"> </span>a.m. with a bottle of brandy, using profane language at his staffer, Earl Provost, before security arranged for him to be taken home. The incident was revealed in November 2013, after an e-mail from a City Hall security guard describing the incident was found through <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_information_in_Canada" title="Freedom of information in Canada">access to information requests</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sun-2013-1101_87-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sun-2013-1101-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ford's staff tried to convince Ford to get treatment for his alcoholism, but he initially refused.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle2014234_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle2014234-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford was reported smoking marijuana in a shopping plaza parking lot.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle2014244_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle2014244-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 2013, Ford attended the Garrison Ball and was reported to be incoherent. His staff ushered him out after an event organizer asked him to leave.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle2014191_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle2014191-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2013, Ford was accused of groping former mayoral candidate <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Thomson_(publisher)" title="Sarah Thomson (publisher)">Sarah Thomson</a> at a social event, and Thomson publicly stated that she thought that he was high on cocaine.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle2014286_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle2014286-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was around that time that Ford was recorded on video smoking crack cocaine, a video which the dealers attempted to sell to the <i>Toronto Star</i> and other media outlets.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDoolittle2014323–350_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDoolittle2014323–350-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2013, on live television, Ford denied that he had made lewd remarks to a female aide, wherein he allegedly said he wanted to give her oral sex. In his denial, he said, "I'm happily married. I've got more than enough to eat at home." He later apologized for his graphic remarks.<sup id="cite_ref-globalnews-2013-11-14_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-globalnews-2013-11-14-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2014, Ford was involved in another incident at the Air Canada Centre. Ford, along with city budget chief <a href="/wiki/Frank_Di_Giorgio" title="Frank Di Giorgio">Frank DiGiorgio</a>, was denied access to the Director's Lounge at the Air Canada Centre.<sup id="cite_ref-natpost-1014-04-07_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-natpost-1014-04-07-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was video-recorded issuing profanities during an argument with the security staff. He later denied being intoxicated, and blamed the incident on voting against a $10 million contribution to <a href="/wiki/Maple_Leaf_Sports_%26_Entertainment" title="Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment">MLSE's</a> plan to expand <a href="/wiki/BMO_Field" title="BMO Field">BMO Field</a>. DiGiorgio described Ford as "somewhere between sober and drunk".<sup id="cite_ref-natpost-1014-04-07_94-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-natpost-1014-04-07-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On August 11, 2016, four months after his death, the original video of Ford smoking crack cocaine was released from publication ban by the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Police_Service" title="Toronto Police Service">Toronto Police Service</a> after the extortion charge against Sandro Lisi was dropped.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cellphone video was recorded "surreptitiously" by Mohamed Siad in February 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The video shows Ford smoking crack cocaine from a glass pipe. His words are slurred and mostly inaudible during the conversation. Shortly before he admitted smoking crack cocaine, Ford said, "Whatever this video shows<span class="nowrap"> </span>... Toronto residents deserve to see it and people need to judge for themselves what they see on this video."<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Illness_and_death">Illness and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Illness and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After developing severe abdominal pains, Ford was admitted to <a href="/wiki/Humber_River_Regional_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Humber River Regional Hospital">Humber River Regional Hospital</a> in <a href="/wiki/North_York" title="North York">North York</a> in September 2014 with an abdominal tumour, and a biopsy was taken.<sup id="cite_ref-Tumor_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tumor-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford announced that he would not run in the 2014 Toronto mayoral election because of his illness; his brother Doug would run in his place. Ford chose to run for his former Ward 2 seat on the City Council. He was likely to shortly begin treatment with multiple chemotherapy agents; the doctor did not say whether Ford would need to have surgery or radiation treatments.<sup id="cite_ref-diagnosed_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-diagnosed-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On September 17, 2014, Dr. Zane Cohen of <a href="/wiki/Mount_Sinai_Hospital,_Toronto" class="mw-redirect" title="Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto">Mount Sinai Hospital</a> (the lead doctor of Ford's health care team) revealed that Ford had been diagnosed with pleomorphic <a href="/wiki/Liposarcoma" title="Liposarcoma">liposarcoma</a>, a rare form of cancer that arises in <a href="/wiki/Adipose_tissue" title="Adipose tissue">adipose tissue (fat)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WIPL_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WIPL-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford was treated with chemotherapy and surgery.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After chemotherapy and radiation therapy, Ford announced in a press conference that he was going to have a lengthy surgery done on May 11, 2015, to remove the tumour. He said he would be "out of commission" for four months. At a community barbecue hosted by the Ford family in 2015, Rob announced that doctors had cleared him of cancerous tumours.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 28, 2015, Ford revealed, and his physician confirmed, that a new tumour was growing on his bladder.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next day, Doug Ford advised reporters that the tumour had been found to be cancerous and consistent with liposarcoma (the previous tumour), based on a CT scan.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 17, 2016, Ford's office announced he was in the hospital "with his family beside him" as <a href="/wiki/Chemotherapy" title="Chemotherapy">chemotherapy</a> treatment had not been successful, and Ford's health was being reviewed to determine if he could continue treatment. The Ford family thanked the many who had wished the former mayor well in recent weeks, but requested privacy.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Rob Ford "get-well-soon" website was set up by the Ford family to send positive messages to Ford while he received cancer treatment; it received over 5,000 messages from well-wishers in the first two weeks after its creation.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409" /> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikinews-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Wikinews-logo.svg/40px-Wikinews-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="22" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Wikinews-logo.svg/60px-Wikinews-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Wikinews-logo.svg/80px-Wikinews-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="759" data-file-height="415" /></a></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikinews has related news: <div><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Former_Toronto,_Canada_mayor_Rob_Ford_dies_after_struggle_with_cancerous_tumors" class="extiw" title="wikinews:Former Toronto, Canada mayor Rob Ford dies after struggle with cancerous tumors"> Former Toronto, Canada mayor Rob Ford dies after struggle with cancerous tumors</a></li></ul></div></div></div> </div> <p>On March 21, Ford's office confirmed that he had been placed into <a href="/wiki/Palliative_care" title="Palliative care">palliative care</a> at Mount Sinai Hospital.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford died the next day at the age of 46.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After his death, City Hall started an official period of mourning. Flags at municipal buildings were lowered to half-mast; a book of condolences was started at City Hall, chalk was provided for personal messages on the pavement of <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Phillips_Square" title="Nathan Phillips Square">Nathan Phillips Square</a>, similar to that after the death of <a href="/wiki/Jack_Layton" title="Jack Layton">Jack Layton</a>; and the <a href="/wiki/3D_Toronto_sign" class="mw-redirect" title="3D Toronto sign">3D Toronto sign</a> was dimmed at the square. Visitations were held at City Hall for two days with the Ford family present.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On March 30, a public <a href="/wiki/Funeral" title="Funeral">funeral</a> service was held at <a href="/wiki/Cathedral_Church_of_St._James_(Toronto)" title="Cathedral Church of St. James (Toronto)">St. James Cathedral</a> followed by a public commemoration of his life at the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Congress_Centre" title="Toronto Congress Centre">Toronto Congress Centre</a> in the evening.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ford was buried at <a href="/wiki/Park_Lawn_Cemetery" title="Park Lawn Cemetery">Riverside Cemetery</a> in Etobicoke where his father is also buried.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His brothers Doug and Randy took on stewardship of Rob's share of Deco Labels and Tags upon his death.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Supported by the Ward 3 incumbent, <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Holyday" title="Stephen Holyday">Stephen Holyday</a>, and the Ford family, in September 2017, then Toronto Mayor <a href="/wiki/John_Tory" title="John Tory">John Tory</a> proposed renaming <a href="/wiki/Centennial_Park_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Centennial Park Stadium">Centennial Park Stadium</a> after Ford. The city council rejected the proposed renaming on October 4, 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2023, Councillor <a href="/wiki/Paul_Ainslie" title="Paul Ainslie">Paul Ainslie</a> put forward another motion to change the name to "Rob Ford Stadium". 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democracy">nonpartisan</a> basis.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 6,</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=CBC+News&rft.atitle=Doug+Ford+calls+allegations+in+sister-in-law%27s+lawsuit+%27false+and+without+merit%27&rft.date=2018-06-05&rft.aulast=Janus&rft.aufirst=Andrea&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Ftoronto%2Fdoug-ford-calls-allegations-in-sister-in-law-s-lawsuit-false-and-without-merit-1.4692165&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARob+Ford" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-122"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-122">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFDavid_Rider2017" class="citation news cs1">David Rider (October 4, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2017/10/04/no-rob-ford-memorial-stadium-in-toronto-after-council-rejects-renaming-proposal.html">"No 'Rob Ford Memorial Stadium' in Toronto after council rejects renaming proposal"</a>. <i>The Star</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Star&rft.atitle=No+%27Rob+Ford+Memorial+Stadium%27+in+Toronto+after+council+rejects+renaming+proposal&rft.date=2017-10-04&rft.au=David+Rider&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestar.com%2Fnews%2Fcity_hall%2F2017%2F10%2F04%2Fno-rob-ford-memorial-stadium-in-toronto-after-council-rejects-renaming-proposal.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARob+Ford" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-123"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-123">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFreeman2023" class="citation web cs1">Freeman, Joshua (December 15, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cp24.com/news/toronto-council-votes-to-name-stadium-after-former-mayor-rob-ford-1.6689492?cache=yesclipId10406200text%2Fhtml%3Bcharset%3Dutf-80404%2F7.626236%2F7.425272">"Toronto council votes to name stadium after former mayor Rob Ford"</a>. <i>CP24</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 25,</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=CP24&rft.atitle=Toronto+council+votes+to+name+stadium+after+former+mayor+Rob+Ford&rft.date=2023-12-15&rft.aulast=Freeman&rft.aufirst=Joshua&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cp24.com%2Fnews%2Ftoronto-council-votes-to-name-stadium-after-former-mayor-rob-ford-1.6689492%3Fcache%3DyesclipId10406200text%252Fhtml%253Bcharset%253Dutf-80404%252F7.626236%252F7.425272&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARob+Ford" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sources">Sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140926104317/https://sites.google.com/site/therobfordfiles/associates/known-associates-of-ford/alana-kindree">"T.O. Confidential: The Rob Ford Files, associates -- Alana Kindree"</a>. T.O. Confidential. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sites.google.com/site/therobfordfiles/associates/known-associates-of-ford/alana-kindree">the original</a> on September 26, 2014. <q>When interviewed by police on 3 July 2013, Isaac RANSOM advised that a female by the name of "ALANA" was with the Mayor at the Bier Markt on March 17th, 2013. RANSOM believes that she was a professional escort who knew Mayor FORD well.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=T.O.+Confidential%3A+The+Rob+Ford+Files%2C+associates+--+Alana+Kindree&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Ftherobfordfiles%2Fassociates%2Fknown-associates-of-ford%2Falana-kindree&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARob+Ford" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMichelle_Mandel2014" class="citation news cs1">Michelle Mandel (January 22, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2014/01/23/the-mayor-rob-ford-story">"The Rob Ford story: From penny-pinching councillor to crack mayor"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Brantford_Expositor" title="Brantford Expositor">Brantford Expositor</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043946/http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/2014/01/23/the-mayor-rob-ford-story">Archived</a> from the original on March 4, 2016. <q>Ransom was told to report to City Hall at about 9 p.m. where he found Ford with an entourage that included aide Brooks Barnett, old Etobicoke friend Peter Kordas and an attractive blue-eyed blond he knew only as Alana. Ransom would later tell police that he suspected Alana may have been an escort or prostitute. "There have been rumours that Mayor Ford has used escorts or prostitutes. Alana has also been seen with Mayor Ford at a stag party."<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The+Rob+Ford+story%3A+From+penny-pinching+councillor+to+crack+mayor&rft.date=2014-01-22&rft.au=Michelle+Mandel&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brantfordexpositor.ca%2F2014%2F01%2F23%2Fthe-mayor-rob-ford-story&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARob+Ford" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFJohn_Semley2013" class="citation news cs1">John Semley (November 14, 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=195325">"Alleged sex worker "Alana" may be former Miss Toronto Tourism: BREAKING! It is possible that a 23 year-old woman could be friends with the mayor without being a prostitute"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Now_(newspaper)" title="Now (newspaper)">Now</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131117052245/http://nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=195325">Archived</a> from the original on November 17, 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 26,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Now&rft.atitle=Alleged+sex+worker+%22Alana%22+may+be+former+Miss+Toronto+Tourism%3A+BREAKING%21+It+is+possible+that+a+23+year-old+woman+could+be+friends+with+the+mayor+without+being+a+prostitute&rft.date=2013-11-14&rft.au=John+Semley&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nowtoronto.com%2Fnews%2Fstory.cfm%3Fcontent%3D195325&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARob+Ford" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFJoe_Warmington2014" class="citation news cs1">Joe Warmington (February 5, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.torontosun.com/2014/02/05/toronto-cops-can-take-cellphone-instead-of-obtaining-warrants-rob-ford">"Toronto cops 'can take' cellphone, instead of obtaining warrants: Rob Ford"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Toronto_Sun" title="Toronto Sun">Toronto Sun</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140222070913/http://www.torontosun.com/2014/02/05/toronto-cops-can-take-cellphone-instead-of-obtaining-warrants-rob-ford">Archived</a> from the original on February 22, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 25,</span> 2016</span>. <q><span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"I don't know if it's true, but I was told they are getting a search warrant for my cellphone and the OnStar in my truck," said the mayor.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Toronto+Sun&rft.atitle=Toronto+cops+%27can+take%27+cellphone%2C+instead+of+obtaining+warrants%3A+Rob+Ford&rft.date=2014-02-05&rft.au=Joe+Warmington&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torontosun.com%2F2014%2F02%2F05%2Ftoronto-cops-can-take-cellphone-instead-of-obtaining-warrants-rob-ford&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARob+Ford" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFBetsy_Powell2014" class="citation news cs1">Betsy Powell (February 5, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2014/02/05/rob_ford_police_can_have_my_cellphone_mayor_says.html">"Rob Ford: Police can check my cellphone, mayor says"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Toronto_Star" title="Toronto Star">Toronto Star</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140209143837/http://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2014/02/05/rob_ford_police_can_have_my_cellphone_mayor_says.html">Archived</a> from the original on February 9, 2014. <q>Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says police are welcome to his cellphone records because he has "nothing to hide. They can go through it; there's, you know, nothing here," he said Wednesday afternoon at Toronto City Hall.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Toronto+Star&rft.atitle=Rob+Ford%3A+Police+can+check+my+cellphone%2C+mayor+says&rft.date=2014-02-05&rft.au=Betsy+Powell&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestar.com%2Fnews%2Fcity_hall%2F2014%2F02%2F05%2Frob_ford_police_can_have_my_cellphone_mayor_says.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARob+Ford" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFPeat2014" class="citation news cs1">Peat, Don (February 5, 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.torontosun.com/2014/02/05/mayor-rob-ford-backtracks-on-offer-to-share-cellphone-with-cops">"Mayor Rob Ford backtracks on offer to share cellphone with cops"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Toronto_Sun" title="Toronto Sun">Toronto Sun</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140222070911/http://www.torontosun.com/2014/02/05/mayor-rob-ford-backtracks-on-offer-to-share-cellphone-with-cops">Archived</a> from the original on February 22, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 25,</span> 2016</span>. <q>Mayor Rob Ford backtracked Wednesday on his offer to voluntarily share his cellphone records with Toronto Police. Ford dismissed the idea that he'll give investigators his phone records without a search warrant – a day after he told the Toronto Sun's Joe Warmington he's willing to share.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Toronto+Sun&rft.atitle=Mayor+Rob+Ford+backtracks+on+offer+to+share+cellphone+with+cops&rft.date=2014-02-05&rft.aulast=Peat&rft.aufirst=Don&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.torontosun.com%2F2014%2F02%2F05%2Fmayor-rob-ford-backtracks-on-offer-to-share-cellphone-with-cops&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARob+Ford" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFAllison_Jones,_Diana_Mehta2013" class="citation news cs1">Allison Jones, Diana Mehta (November 14, 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4216077-rob-ford-booze-and-prostitutes-on-the-job-">"ROB FORD: Booze and prostitutes on the job?"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Hamilton_Spectator" class="mw-redirect" title="Hamilton Spectator">Hamilton Spectator</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131218082648/http://www.thespec.com/news-story/4216077-rob-ford-booze-and-prostitutes-on-the-job-">Archived</a> from the original on December 18, 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 25,</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=ROB+FORD%3A+Booze+and+prostitutes+on+the+job%3F&rft.date=2013-11-14&rft.au=Allison+Jones%2C+Diana+Mehta&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thespec.com%2Fnews-story%2F4216077-rob-ford-booze-and-prostitutes-on-the-job-&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARob+Ford" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFAnn_Hui2013" class="citation news cs1">Ann Hui (November 13, 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/breaking/article15409994/?page=all">"Staffers told police they were worried about Rob Ford's drug, alcohol use"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Globe_and_Mail" title="The Globe and Mail">The Globe and Mail</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160305013112/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/breaking/article15409994/?page=all">Archived</a> from the original on March 5, 2016<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 25,</span> 2016</span>. <q>According to former Ford staffers Mr. Ransom and Mr. Fickel, the mayor's entourage that night included a woman described in the document as a "professional escort who knew the Mayor Ford well." She returned with them to city hall that night, according to Mr. Ransom, and had been seen with him on at least one other occasion, at a stag party. The mother of the woman told The Globe on Wednesday that her daughter is not an escort.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Globe+and+Mail&rft.atitle=Staffers+told+police+they+were+worried+about+Rob+Ford%27s+drug%2C+alcohol+use&rft.date=2013-11-13&rft.au=Ann+Hui&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%2Fnews%2Ftoronto%2Fbreaking%2Farticle15409994%2F%3Fpage%3Dall&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARob+Ford" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Rob_Ford&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/agony-of-ford">"The agony of Rob Ford"</a>. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 10,</span> 2015</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=The+agony+of+Rob+Ford&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews2%2Finteractives%2Fagony-of-ford&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARob+Ford" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFilion2015" class="citation book cs1">Filion, John (2015). <i>The Only Average Guy: Inside the Uncommon World of Rob Ford</i>. Random House Canada. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780345815996" title="Special:BookSources/9780345815996"><bdi>9780345815996</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Only+Average+Guy%3A+Inside+the+Uncommon+World+of+Rob+Ford&rft.pub=Random+House+Canada&rft.date=2015&rft.isbn=9780345815996&rft.aulast=Filion&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARob+Ford" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFFordFord2016" class="citation book cs1">Ford, Rob; Ford, Doug (2016). <i>Ford Nation: Two Brothers, One Vision</i>. 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