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In Toronto, Mutiny Brews Vs. Crack-Smoking Mayor

City Council aims to 'shun' Rob Ford, 'curtail his power'

(Newser) - Toronto's crack-smoking mayor has made it clear he's not going anywhere despite his many scandals , but City Council has other ideas. Councilors will today consider a motion that would call on Rob Ford to apologize, take a leave of absence, and cooperate with a police investigation into his...

Rob Ford's Crack Use Isn't the Worst of It

As new video surfaces, JB Staniforth lists the mayor's drunken, drug-fueled escapades

(Newser) - The Toronto Sun has a new video in which a belligerent Rob Ford threatens to murder someone, but will even that hurt the Teflon mayor? When news broke that he had definitely smoked crack, his approval rating went up by 5%. How? Because Ford, who's actually the son of...

Toronto Mayor: 'Forever Sorry', but Won't Quit

Rob Ford apologizes for embarrassing city but won't step down

(Newser) - Hours after he finally admitted to reporters that he had, in fact, smoked crack, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford went before the cameras for another public statement. Would he step down, as the city council and all the city's newspapers would like? Not so much. But he is very sorry....

Toronto Mayor: I Smoked Crack 'in Drunken Stupor'

But Rob Ford insists he's not an addict

(Newser) - Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted that he'd at least used crack today, in what the CBC describes as a "scrum" with reporters outside city hall. "Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine," he said. "Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Um, probably...

Toronto Mayor: I'm Staying, But I'll Ease Up on the Booze

He denies smoking crack, admits 'stupidity'

(Newser) - After a rough week that included police saying they have a video that appears to show him smoking crack and every paper in the city calling for his resignation , Toronto's mayor has vowed to "ride the storm out"—but cut back on the booze. "I have...

Every Paper in Toronto Tells Mayor to Resign

Rob Ford, meanwhile, calls on police to release crack video

(Newser) - There's political criticism and then there's this: All four of Toronto's daily newspapers—the Sun , the Star , the National Post , and the Globe and Mail —published editorials today calling on Mayor Rob Ford to resign. They're responding, of course, to the police announcement that investigators...

Toronto Police Have Video of Mayor Apparently Smoking Crack

It's a bad day up north for Rob Ford

(Newser) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford just got some very bad news: Police say they've finally got their hands on a notorious video that purports to show him smoking crack , reports the Toronto Star . Or as the police chief puts it, “The video files depict images that are consistent with...

$3 Estate Sale Find Gives Up a Treasure Trove

...but New Jersey stakes claim on rare documents

(Newser) - A Toronto woman spotted a $3 box of documents at a Buffalo estate sale; at the time, "I had no sense of their history or value," she says. Turns out they were worth a heck of a lot more: One was signed by Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate son,...

Justin Bieber Has a Spitting Problem

Drops a loogie from hotel balcony

(Newser) - And the offensive behavior continues: As adoring fans surrounded his Toronto hotel yesterday, Justin Bieber decided to grace them with his presence, heading out onto his balcony to snap the view on Instagram . Nice enough, until he proceeded to spit. TMZ nabbed some pretty gross pictures of the spit in...

Freak Storm Floods Toronto
 Freak Storm Floods Toronto 
Jul 9, 2013 1:45 AM CDT

Freak Storm Floods Toronto

Record-breaking rain strands commuters on flooded train

(Newser) - A record-breaking thunderstorm has caused chaos in Canada's biggest city, flooding roads and subway tunnels and leaving around 300,000 people without power. Close to 4 inches of rain was dumped on Toronto in the evening storm, the most rain the city has ever received in a single day...

John Malkovich Helps Save Bleeding Guy

Tourist had cut throat, didn't recognize his good Samaritan

(Newser) - Being John Malkovich now involves being a little more heroic: The actor was apparently taking a smoke break on the street in Toronto, where he's starring in The Giacomo Variations, when he spotted a 77-year-old tourist bleeding at the throat after having fallen and cut himself on scaffolding, reports...

Toronto Mayor Crack Video 'Gone'

Gawker suspects Rob Ford got to it first

(Newser) - A video that allegedly shows Toronto mayor Rob Ford hitting the crack pipe is "gone," Gawker has discovered after raising $200,000 to buy it . After a long silence, the video's owner reached out to an intermediary with the message, "It's gone. Leave me alone,...

Canada Town Bans 'Unlucky' 4 From Addresses

Number sounds like 'death' in Cantonese, Mandarin

(Newser) - A Toronto suburb that has long catered to the superstitious by skipping 13 when giving out new addresses has decided to do away with the number four as well. Four is considered unlucky by speakers of Cantonese and Mandarin because it sounds like the word "death," and while...

Toronto Mayor Crack Video Fund Hits $200K Target

As aides bail, owners of Rob Ford video can't be found

(Newser) - Gawker's "Crackstarter" fundraiser to buy a video that allegedly shows Toronto mayor Rob Ford smoking crack has hit its $200,000 target—but they haven't been able to make contact with the video's owners. More than 8,000 people chipped in to push the campaign over...

Exposé Links Toronto Mayor's Family to Drug-Dealing

'Globe and Mail' says brother Doug ran a hash operation for years

(Newser) - If yesterday's carefully worded I-am-not-a-crack-addict news conference made for a bleak day for Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, today isn't much better. The respected Globe and Mail is out with an investigative piece on the mayor's family, including brother Doug, a city councilor. It includes paragraphs like this:...

Toronto Mayor: I Don't Smoke Crack

He won't comment on video 'I have never seen or does not exist'

(Newser) - It can't be a banner day for any politician when he has to call a press conference to declare that he's not a crack addict, but that's precisely what Toronto Mayor Rob Ford did today. After a week of silence, Ford addressed the controversy that began when...

Rob Ford May Smoke Crack, but He's a Good Mayor

Philip Preville on the politician who has long embarrassed Toronto

(Newser) - Philip Preville's Slate piece on Toronto mayor and possible crack-smoker Rob Ford is not exactly kind—he calls Ford "a crass, offensive, and ill-tempered buffoon" with a "capacity for breathtakingly stupid behavior," among other things—but, Preville says, you have to admit Ford has been a...

Video Claims to Show Toronto Mayor on Crack

Rob Ford denies it; Gawker and 'Toronto Star' say they've watched it

(Newser) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is trying to fend off the first reports of what could be a monumental scandal. Both the Toronto Star and Gawker say they've seen a video that purports to show Ford smoking crack cocaine. Two reporters from the Star watched the video three times and...

Tip From Imam Foiled Canada Terror Plot

2 men planned to derail passenger train: RCMP

(Newser) - Yesterday, Canadian authorities said they foiled an alleged terrorist plot —the "first known al-Qaeda plan of attack that we’ve experienced," one detective says—and they have a Toronto imam to thank for the bust. More than a year ago, the still-anonymous imam told authorities he was...

Churches Reject Sculpture of Homeless Jesus

Toronto artist wanted 'marginalized' people to relate

(Newser) - A new sculpture of Jesus looks a lot like a homeless person lying on a bench—which, ironically, is why it had trouble finding a home, the Toronto Star reports. Artist Timothy Schmalz carved Jesus huddling under a blanket so that "marginalized" people could relate. Jesus was, after all,...

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