Rob Ford crack video exists: source
…and the source, as it turns out, is none other than Rob Ford. Link here. The Star: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford told senior aides not to worry about a video…
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Sun News: fair’s fair
As the House Communist© at Sun News, I draw to your attention this and this. Fair’s fair. If CBC gets yet more “mandatory carriage,” so should the SNN. I support…
If I were still an investigative reporter, this is what I’d be asking
(And, yes, I was one at the Ottawa Citizen and Calgary Herald, many moons ago.) If Rob Ford was indeed heading out to Dixon Road to get really f**ked up…
The place where the Rob Ford crack cocaine video was shot, and people were shot
The seventeenth floor at 320 Dixon Road, in Kingsview Village. Bullet marks can be seen on a door on that floor, above. The Sun has more: “Several days after the…
This is what happens when Rob Ford is your mayor
This is the view, right now, of the Don Valley Parkway – which Son One and I take to get downtown every day. We won’t be going that way. Thanks,…
Globe: “someone had killed him for the Rob Ford video”
Just out now in the Globe: The tipster who prompted Rob Ford’s chief of staff to go to police about a video allegedly showing the mayor smoking crack cocaine was…
Unidentified young man wake boards, may have future in politics
Spotted yesterday in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. This youngster from Canada was planning on taking kiteboarding lessons, but since there wasn’t a lot of wind, he opted for the wake…
Star: Ford’s office knew where crack tape video was filmed
After more than a week of extraordinary revelations, another one this morning: the Star is reporting that someone senior in Rob Ford’s office – paid for by Ford’s mythologized taxpayer…
In Tuesday’s Sun: an unlikely Conservative pair
It’s a mystery wrapped in an enigma: Why did Nigel Wright destroy his political career to protect Mike Duffy? In Ottawa political circles, it’s one of the many Senate scandal…
Toronto city limits
H/T Cheyenne. SFH’s new record will fit right in!
Gawker less than $5K from goal in Rob Ford Crackstarter campaign
…and Ford’s two most-senior comms aides resign. All he has left are the young men who pass out fridge magnets at funerals, apparently.
The Ford scandal: video that “doesn’t exist” now linked to a homicide
From the front page of this morning’s Globe: A senior member of Rob Ford’s office was interviewed by police last week about a tip linking a video allegedly showing the…
In Sunday’s Sun: for the love God, just go
Gone? In candid moments, and when no microphones are in the vicinity, progressive political operatives will admit they want to keep Rob Ford around. They don’t want him gone, at…
The Fords: drug-dealing, drug-using white trash?
The Globe finally publishes their long-awaited – and what has long been known in Toronto political circles – Ford-drug-dealers investigation. Parts worth reading: There were usually a number of dealers…
Ford’s challenge
So, he doesn’t use crack. Present tense, not past. He looked confident, and sounded defiant. He clearly doesn’t believe the video will ever see the light of day. That’s a…
SFH: Mayor On Crack?
I literally snapped this shot while walking through an alley on Queen West last night. Sent it to Bjorn, and he got to work. Here, then, is the art for…
Video: the Ford-Harper connection
I kind of doubt that Harper will be in attendance at Rob Ford’s barbecue this year. This morning’s headlines – in which Ford’s former Chief of Staff confirms that Ford…
Ford follies, ad absurdum
This is fun! Just did a phoner with CITY-TV about the latest installment in this three-ring circus masquerading as a municipal government: Rob Ford just fired his most senior, and…
Why hasn’t Rob Ford sued the Star?
Because truth’s a defence, that’s why. And the truth, she’s a-comin’.
The Hot Nasties in NME!
I have arrived – about three decades after the fact. Check this out: “Penultimate song ’14′ saw a mass stage invasion, followed by Harry Violent rejoining the band on stage…