Topic: News from the North (Read 64101 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #841 on:** November 08, 2013, 08:15:01 AM »

Someone made a Rob Ford "Incident spreadsheet" going back to 1987.

Healy · « **Reply #842 on:** November 08, 2013, 04:02:24 PM »

The March 17th 2012 entry stuck out at me:

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A St. Patrick's Day reveller reports seeing Ford “stumbling down the street … inebriated and sweaty but in a jovial way” and tells him "You're the worst mayor ever." Ford allegedly walks over, kisses her on the forehead, and responds, “I know, but I try.” Ford then heads into a private room in the Bier Markt on the Esplanade, where a staffer describes him as “incoherent” and “hammered.” The DJ working that night reports Ford is fighting and carrying on "like an idiot.” After “storming the dance floor,” Ford is asked to leave and escorted out by his own staff and members of the restaurant's security team.

edit: bwahahahahaha

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Documents obtained by the Toronto Star through a freedom of information request suggest Ford is doing less than half the official work than he was doing a year prior; In January 2012, Ford averaged 11 meetings a week compared with 33 in January 2011, his first full month as mayor. In February 2012, he had 15 meetings scheduled each week, compared with an average of 34 a year earlier. According to sources that include former and current staff, Ford often does not leave his home until noon. Some days he never appears in his office. Councillor Adam Vaughan calls Ford "a part-time mayor.”

(May 26th, if you want to look it up for yourself.)

Healy · « **Reply #843 on:** November 08, 2013, 04:16:45 PM »

Any of you Canucks wanna give some more deets on this one?

Quote from: March 8th 2013

Ford's claims that former Don Bosco football players would be dead or in jail without his coaching are disputed by former Don Bosco football players.

Mongrel · « **Reply #844 on:** November 08, 2013, 05:53:09 PM »

He was trying to play up the value of his football coaching and the football program, saying basically the kids in the team were one step away from being gangbangers. The kids (and their parents) were saying that "Hey, we're from a crappier neighbourhood, but most of us are regular working class folks and not a bunch of intervention cases."

Mongrel · « **Reply #845 on:** November 12, 2013, 01:45:43 PM »

Ocksi · « **Reply #846 on:** November 12, 2013, 02:45:14 PM »

"only crack smoking mayor" my ass. Our capital's mayor beat him by 24 years!

Mongrel · « **Reply #847 on:** November 13, 2013, 08:31:33 AM »

Holy christ this shitshow is turning into sheer lunacy. Ford supporters are trolling everywhere they go, like a bad case of municipal crabs. Meanwhile today's council session was like something out of a ... well, a Toronto city council session.

Highlight reel:

- Council voted to ask Ford to take a leave of absence
- When asked if he had ever physically beaten or assaulted a member of his own staff, Ford replied "Probably not."
- When asked what other skeletons would be pulled from his closet, Ford said "I don't know what else people have filmed."
- Ford inadvertantly admitted to outright purchase of illegal drugs, where previously he had only admitted to consumption of them
- We had the classic bullshit high school scene of "I'm holding him back, bro!" When Rob moved to 'fight' another councillor and Doug 'held him back'
- More information from the police report was released this afternoon, suggesting there were hookers in the mayor's office and that Ford has smoked dope with young girls, promising them jobs in his office. There were also suggested lines about "other mind-altering substances". More on this should come out soon as the various news sources digest the new police release
- Rob offered to pay for drug testing for all of city council, appearing quite familiar with different types of drug tests, specifiying he wanted hair tests. Brother Doug flat out accused other councillors of also doing drugs (oh boy)

Also some dude was shot dead down the street from work after waving a gun at the cops. Today has not been short of interesting things.

Büge · « **Reply #848 on:** November 13, 2013, 08:48:41 AM »

Quote from: Mongrel on November 13, 2013, 08:31:33 AM

- When asked if he had ever physically beaten or assaulted a member of his own staff, Ford replied "Probably not."

But didn't he actually do that once?

Mongrel · « **Reply #849 on:** November 13, 2013, 08:52:37 AM »

That we know of.

Mongrel · « **Reply #850 on:** November 14, 2013, 03:12:17 AM »

Ford threatens to sue his former staffers... for making statements to the police

This is not public slander. This is a private report made to the police, which was then released by judicial order. Good luck with that lawsuit, Robbie!

Also, this quote:

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Ford then shocked reporters when he went on to refute the allegation that he had made an inappropriate sexual advance to a woman who was on his staff at the time.

The woman "said I wanted to eat her p—y," Ford said before cameras.

"I’ve never said that in my life to her. I would never do that. I'm happily married. I've got more than enough to eat at home."

(for the record, Ford's wife is actually reputed to be an alcoholic who's so severely non-functional that she rarely leaves their home :/ ).

Mongrel · « **Reply #851 on:** November 14, 2013, 12:39:46 PM »

This is an ace parody, from what I presume is some sort of French Onion soup website.

http://www.journaldemourreal.com/rob-ford-une-troisieme-vi%C2%ADdeo-compromettante/

Roughly translated text:

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Rob Ford - Third compromising video

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TORONTO | A third video showing the mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford, in a drunken and out-of-control state, surfaced yesterday.

"I'm too fucking hot! I need ten fucking minutes to cool off!", shouted the mayor of Toronto in the video clip. The images appear to have been obtained with a cell phone. We see mayor Ford, wearing only a "thong", leaving a filthy basement, climbing the stairs and then staggering over to speak to some people in the street.

"Where's the Dairy Queen here?" demanded mayor Ford to passersby in this approximately two-minute video. "I'm too fucking hot. I need to go throw a banana split on my fucking body" adds Ford.

The mayor excused himself for this newest gaffe yesterday morning. "I was really, really drunk" he said by way of justification. The mayor said he was "extremely humiliated" by these images, but added that he did not have a problem with the whole world seeing them.

Ever heard of this site, Zed? What do we want to bet that someone picks this "story" up and repeats it as real?

François · « **Reply #852 on:** November 14, 2013, 12:56:16 PM »

Never heard of it myself but that really doesn't mean much nowadays; I'm okay with seeing English mangled online, but witnessing the same thing done to French makes me want to punch things so I tend to stay away from anything with a comments section.

As for it being picked up... I would say Rob Ford himself is more likely to look at this and think "yeah that sounds like something I'd do", than it being taken for truth by any legit media, but that doesn't mean much either.

Mongrel · « **Reply #853 on:** November 14, 2013, 01:26:03 PM »

Say, I have to ask: Why is "Thong" in quotation marks?

Royal☭ · « **Reply #854 on:** November 14, 2013, 02:09:16 PM »

We heard it was a thong. We never got verification that it actually was a thong. The intern can't stop vomiting long enough to tell us.

François · « **Reply #855 on:** November 14, 2013, 02:47:22 PM »

"Thong" isn't technically a word in French, the correct term for the underwear is "string". (At first glance this doesn't make a lot of sense but you gotta remember that your "th" sounds really weird to us and takes practice to get right.) But people still say thong occasionally (or, err, try to), though with the way the article writer spelled it with a u, I suspect he's never seen it written down, or that he didn't pay attention when he did. He knows he's not using a French word and/or he admits to not knowing how it is spelled, hence the quotation marks.

EDIT: Looking quickly through some other articles... Their French is far from putrid, but it lacks polish, enough that it would be extremely difficult to take seriously even without the subject matter.

Mongrel · « **Reply #856 on:** November 15, 2013, 05:40:57 PM »

Thanks, Terry.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #857 on:** November 18, 2013, 02:09:08 AM »

Ford wants to be your Prime Minister

Friday · « **Reply #858 on:** November 18, 2013, 02:56:46 AM »

Tidus Laugh 10 HOURS

Mongrel · « **Reply #859 on:** November 18, 2013, 04:37:08 AM »

So City Council stripped him of some of his key powers last week. Today they'll be voting to strip him of just about all of his remaining powers. He'll still be the "The Mayor" but the title will actually be completely empty. That's unprecedented and he will almost certainly challenge it, but any legal challenge will take some time.

The issue here is that the guy is now famous in the Paris Hilton famous-just-for-being-famous sense. He already fucked off all day, showing up late, usually drunk, and really didn't do much actual work at all. But now he doesn't even have to pretend at all; he's going to be able to just straight-up campaign 24 hours a day until next October.

I really hope this move by council doesn't wind up biting us all on the ass.

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