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T.O. Mayor's Brother Expected To Respond To Drug Allegations

CP | Colin Perkel and Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.21.2013 | Canada Politics

TORONTO - Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford stayed silent for a fourth day Tuesday amid allegations a drug dealer had recorded him on a cellphone video...

All You Need To Know About Rob Ford

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 05.17.2013 | Canada Politics

Toronto's mayor Rob Ford is a polarizing figure in the city's politics. Since his election in 2010, the conservative, deficit-reducing and brash but f...

Ford Folds On Casino Debate

CBC | Posted 05.17.2013 | Canada Politics

A whirlwind day of late-breaking developments around a possible casino development in downtown Toronto has seen the city's mayor declare the project "...

No Pool For Ford

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.10.2013 | Canada Politics

TORONTO, Cananda - Mayor Rob Ford's vision of a wading pool in the square in front of Toronto's city hall has been sunk.Ford put forward a motion Frid...

Rob Ford Coached 20-Year-Old Man Shot Dead In Toronto

CBC | Posted 04.29.2013 | Canada Politics

As Toronto police work to find the suspect in a fatal shooting that took a young man’s life, Mayor Rob Ford says he is reeling from the news that on...

'Hell Will Freeze Over'

CBC | Posted 04.25.2013 | Canada Politics

Coun. Karen Stintz says the mayor has no apparent plan for improving transit in Toronto and it is time for her colleagues to consider ways of bringing...

LOOK: Rob Ford Mocked In Workopolis Ad

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.23.2013 | Canada Politics

It seems Toronto Mayor Rob Ford keeps walking face-first into mockery after his infamous collision with a TV cameraman. Workopolis, the popular ca...

Ford To Women: I Will Explain 'How Politics Works' Over Coffee

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.22.2013 | Canada Politics

Rob Ford’s offer to “explain how politics works” to women interested in running for public office isn’t sitting well with some people. The ...

WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Rob Ford's Camera Smash

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.18.2013 | Canada Politics

Rob Ford’s latest gaffe has gone international. The Toronto mayor’s collision with a TV cameraman — and subsequent ‘F-bomb’ — became fo...

WATCH: Rob Ford Walks Into Camera

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 04.18.2013 | Canada Politics

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has made another on-camera gaffe and this one looks like it hurt. The controversial civic leader smashed his face into a TV ...

Little Help Please?

CP | Maria Babbage, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.08.2013 | Canada Politics

TORONTO - Business leaders must help shore up support for a contentious provincial plan to raise billions of dollars for public transit in the Greater...

Show Me The Money

CP | Paola Loriggio, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.08.2013 | Canada Politics

TORONTO - The fate of a new casino and convention centre proposed for Toronto could hinge on whether the province is willing to split the revenues gen...

Three Councillors Claim Ford Has Drinking Problem

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 03.27.2013 | Canada Politics

Three Toronto councillors have gone public with concerns about Mayor Rob Ford’s alleged alcohol problem. The Toronto Star, which claims an impai...

Last Straw For Toronto's Embattled Mayor?

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 03.26.2013 | Canada Politics

A bombshell report in Tuesday’s Toronto Star alleges Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was intoxicated and asked to leave the Garrison Ball, an annual gala tha...

Rob Ford Vs. Poverty Activists

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 05.07.2013 | Canada Politics

TORONTO - Mayor Rob Ford says he won't put up with any poverty activists who try to disrupt work at a civic centre in downtown Toronto.Members of the ...

Rob Ford Wants His Money Back

CBC | Posted 04.24.2013 | Canada Politics

Rob Ford's lawyer says the man who brought the conflict of interest case against the mayor should have to cover about $120,000 in legal costs. ...

Rob Ford Faces Critics At New Year's Bash

CBC | Posted 03.03.2013 | Canada Politics

Mayor Rob Ford was both praised and criticized during his New Year's Day Levee. A statement from the mayor's office announcing the levee ...

Guess Who's Back, Back Again

CBC | Posted 02.19.2013 | Canada Politics

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is back from a vacation in Florida, telling reporters today that he is still catching up on what happened while he was away. ...

Rob Ford Meets Dave Chappelle

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 08.22.2012 | Canada Politics

Comedian Dave Chappelle met very briefly with Toronto Mayor Rob Ford on Wednesday afternoon. The influential comedian has been in the city perform...

Toronto Mayor Reportedly Released From Hospital

CBC | Posted 10.09.2012 | Canada Politics

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has been discharged from hospital, where he has received care for a throat infection that has aggravated his asthma. ...

Ford's Tea Party-Like Solutions to Toronto Violence

Samuel Getachew | Posted 09.18.2012 | Canada Politics
Samuel Getachew

Earlier today, an identified man was discovered in a school playground and pronounced dead from gunshot wounds. The latest killing was Toronto's 30th homicide of the year. In a desperate city that is looking for answers, its mayor, Rob Ford, and member of the mayor's executive committee, Councillor Michael Thompson, offer unusual Tea Party-like simple solutions to a complex made in Canada problem.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Is Still Not Going To Pride

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 08.29.2012 | Canada Politics

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will likely be doing a few things this weekend, enjoying the outdoors at the cottage, barbecuing with his family, maybe even en...

Toronto Mayor Shows Up At Rainbow Flag Raising

CP | Diana Mehta, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.17.2012 | Canada Politics

TORONTO - The mayor of Canada's most populous city won cheers Thursday as he made an unexpected appearance at a rainbow flag-raising marking Internati...

Every Wildrose Has its Thorn

Jonathan Naymark | Posted 07.01.2012 | Canada
Jonathan Naymark

It's tempting to look at the rise of Danielle Smith's Wildrose Party as an Alberta-only phenomenon. But if current polls hold true, the Wildrose, which garnered only seven per cent of the popular vote in Alberta's 2008 provincial election, is set to topple Alison Redford's Progressive Conservative Government on Monday.

What's Driving Toronto's Budget Surplus?

CBC | Posted 06.28.2012 | Canada Business

Toronto’s red hot real-estate market has helped deliver an unexpected boost to the city’s bottom line. The city will offi...