C anadian officials released an infamous video of torontos late former mayor rob ford smoking crack to the public thursday, three years after reports of its existence triggered a political scandal. Rob ford, torontos conservative mayor, is a wild lunatic given to making bizarre racist pronouncements and randomly slapping refrigerator magnets on cars. Rob ford, the boisterous, hardpartying and scandalplagued former toronto mayor whose battle with a rare abdominal cancer forced him out of the 2014 election race, died tuesday, according to a. Torontos mayor rob ford smoking crack and making some. Rob ford, torontos conservative mayor, is a wild lunatic given to making bizarre racist pronouncements and randomly slapping refrigerator magnets.
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Rob ford s admission to reporters tuesday follows months of accusations during which the embattled mayor refused to step down. At midday, mayor rob ford admits to have smoked crack cocaine, saying yes, i have smoked crack cocaine but am i an addict. After months of denial and some bizarre appearances, torontos rob ford came clean yesterday, admitting that he smoked crack cocaine and vowing to keep. Mar 06, 2020 how accurate is run this town, the new rob ford. The infamous video of former toronto mayor rob ford smoking crack cocaine has been released to the public after an extortion charge laid against ford s friend sandro lisi was withdrawn in court on. Toronto mayor rob ford says he has no reason to resign despite police confirming they have a video of him allegedly smoking crack cocaine. Rob ford, former toronto mayor, dead at 46 cbc news. My life doing damagecontrol for the boozing, crackusing rob. Former toronto mayor rob ford who became world famous for his crack scandal while in office died tuesday after a battle with cancer.
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