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Rob Ford's Toronto

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I was going through my photos and found this one, taken near Bathurst and Bloor in Jan or Feb. Whoever did the artwork knew something....
 

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kbdid said:
Note to whoever planned the crowd control/access for this event - you suck.
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Your first time for Cavalcade of Lights I presume. On a not-so-cold evening like tonight it's packed to overflowing crowds out to the street (closing Bay Street), on really cold nights it's still busy but not as busy like tonight. Hopefully when they Bay Street side is addressed next year it will help improve flow in and out of the Square a bit for busy events like this.
 
Grimace said:
I'm sorry, but both my 6 and 4 year olds have a pretty good sense by now of who Ford is. Try going to Ross Petty's pantomine each Christmas -- the kids love booing the villain. This is no different.

The idea that a Christmas event is not spoiled when it is presided over by a chief magistrate that has become an international laughingstock, who has been stripped of his powers, who has admitted to doing hard drugs while in office (which appears to be the least of his offences) and who by the preponderance of the evidence has vast criminal associations, regularly drives drunk, has major domestic issues (that may involve abuse), and associates with escorts, just to scratch the surface, but the event IS spoiled if said chief magistrate is booed by a citizenry that considers it grossly inappropriate for such a man to preside over such an event, because then you might have to explain something to the kids, is a little hard to grasp.
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Agreed. He should have just stayed away, which would have been the respectful thing to do... but then again, look who we're dealing with here!
 
Does anyone have a list of staffers that have left Rob Ford's office?

I was at a bar last night, and talking to my friend about Rob Ford, when this woman next to me started telling me about her brother who used to work for Rob Ford. I was trying to get more detail out of her, but she was kind of drunk.

She said her brother was assaulted in a strip club by Rob Ford, but that he was keeping it quiet. I wish I could remember the name she gave -- stamkovich? Something like that. It was pretty loud, and hard to hear, and I was a bit drunk. She said he was a junior staffer in his office and left when "the shit hit the fan." She said he was a guy who "got in trouble for coaching football."

I couldn't tell if she was telling the truth at first, she seemed confused about what the recent news was, but after talking to her for a while she seemed pretty genuinely upset about how the whole Ford thing was causing her family nothing but trouble. I'd like to try and confirm a couple more details before calling this an accurate report though.

She said that her brother wouldn't even tell her family what happened. Her family was apparently good friends with the Fords but now they're cutting ties. "How do you tell the mayor of the city you don't want to be friends anymore?" She said.

Anyway, just an interesting lead -- I know there have been lots of rumours around strip clubs and Ford. I heard from someone I trust that he knew someone who's parents had smoked crack in a strip club with Rob Ford and were being paid to keep it quiet. And now this story about him assaulting a staffer at a strip club.

I wonder if the strip club in question is Romeo Di Battista's club that's been "renovated."
 
Just looked it up -- it was Isaac Shirokoff. Her story checks out with the details. I really wish I could have gotten more information out of her!
 
TOperson said:
Can't he be impeached just for saying "chronno"? Doesn't a mayor have to pronounce the city's name right?

Sorry. Pet peeve.
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I think it's called an accent. I hear it pronounced that way all the time. By, ahem, Torontians. Listen to how Bostonians pronounce their name. What's the difference? Cities have dialects.
 
Lenser said:
I think it's called an accent. I hear it pronounced that way all the time. By, ahem, Torontians. Listen to how Bostonians pronounce their name. What's the difference? Cities have dialects.
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"Torontians" heh

Yes, Torontonians do say "Toronto" in a slurred way, but not with a "ch" sound at the beginning, and there is usually a vowelly thing going on between the first t and the o.

Sometimes Ford also works in a bit of a u sound at the end, too. Ugh.
 
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