EagleEye
Senior Member
Katie Simpson just said Ford wasn't going back for the afternoon session. He wants to check out the football stadium. Bloody good thing he IS paying his own way!
Josh Wingrove @josh_wingrove 3m
Ford says he has talked about what he wanted to, and he won't return to FCM meeting after lunch.
But is he taking a half vacation day while he sightsees?Katie Simpson just said Ford wasn't going back for the afternoon session. He wants to check out the football stadium. Bloody good thing he IS paying his own way!
In January, the OIPRD wrote to the police board, which oversees the chief, saying Ford’s letter had been classified as a complaint about conduct.
The OIPRD directed the board not to communicate with the chief, to review the complaint and apply a “low threshold” to decide whether “on the face” of the allegation the letter “may constitute misconduct,” Mukherjee said.
“The complaint in effect was that the comments Chief Blair had made to the media were deliberately misleading and judgmental and they implied wrongdoing on the part of the mayor,” Mukherjee said.
“What the board did was to review the letter, applying the test of the low threshold, and came to the determination that we do not know, because we have not been given the ability to seek an explanation from the chief.”
Mukherjee said the board determined there could be an issue if the chief was privy to confidential information and made the comments with that knowledge.
That determination was sent back to the OIPRD in mid-February.
“There’s no implication there that the board has already drawn any conclusion,” Mukherjee said. “The board undertook no investigation.”
In November, Ford also publicly accused Blair of being in a conflict of interest after going on a fishing trip with board member Andy Pringle, former chief of staff to mayoral candidate John Tory. Mukherjee said that issue was not part of the grounds for the complaint and was not considered in the board’s response to the OIPRD.
Katie Simpson just said Ford wasn't going back for the afternoon session. He wants to check out the football stadium. Bloody good thing he IS paying his own way!
Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie 2m
Rob Ford, as promised, has blown off the Big City Mayors meeting to go to a bar. http://instagram.com/p/k40ptPD0XC/ (h/t @carlyrhiannon)
I think Rob is sufficiently fragile this could break him but Doug will just sink so far into delusion he'll be like Blanche DuBois getting carted away before it's said and done.
His thought process (if you can call it that -- does he really even THINK?) has boggled my mind for the past decade or so.This is what I was just saying. I mean, by what possible stretch of logic could he think it looks good to go all the way there and do this? Even a man of his limited intelligence and skills must know it looks bad to travel to a serious meeting, leave it and go to a bar? No? No? If anyone can explain how even Rob Ford can reconcile this in his mind, I'd be damned glad to hear it.
ann hui @annhui 3m
nenshi just told cp24 that minister for housing will be with big city mayors this afternoon. Mayor ford will not be there.
1. He doesn't give a shit.This is what I was just saying. I mean, by what possible stretch of logic could he think it looks good to go all the way there and do this? Even a man of his limited intelligence and skills must know it looks bad to travel to a serious meeting, leave it and go to a bar? No? No? If anyone can explain how even Rob Ford can reconcile this in his mind, I'd be damned glad to hear it.
He made the same comment regarding his Steak Queen rant that he made to Matt Lauer---"I've got a lot of Jamaican friends since childhood---we went out and had fun, I had a few drinks...". Implying that he was out with his old-time Jamaican friends, which is not the case. What a sleazy liar, and it's really annoying that no one calls him on this.
Ann Hui @annhui 3m
Nenshi just told CP24 that minister for housing will be with Big City Mayors this afternoon. Mayor Ford will not be there.