#Mayor Rob Ford

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@TOMayorFord and conflict of interest: legalities and optics | #TOpoli

Well, the #TOpoli twittersphere, as it so often does, has crystallized the dilemma efficiently. If Rob Ford’s found to be in violation of conflict-of-interest guidelines, the remedy is removal from office. John Michael McGrath and Hamutal Dotan provide the background. On the one hand, there’s the Javert approach: There is only the law.  @sol_chrom @GraphicMatt The goddamned political…

[cutebutstilltoughxoxo]

this was the mayor of Toronto at the time too

[grunge-mermaid]

if any non-Ontarian is watching the Law & Order TO episode about the crack smoking mayor and wondering how accurate it is, they're kinda toning down the corruption tbh

[insignificantstrawberry]

everyone talks shit about toronto. she’s an easy city to talk shit about. you gotta refine your shit talking skills when you’re stepping up to the toronto shit talk challenge! you can’t just be like oh the traffic is bad and the people are rude and the weather sucks and it’s way too expensive for its own good. Baby We Know. that’s 101. you’re streets behind!!!

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Mike Tyson Gets Interviewed In Toronto After Meeting Infamous Mayor Rob Ford

[canadachronicles]

Premier Doug Ford: “Throughout her life, whether on the ice, in a boardroom or on the floor of the Council Chamber, everyone knew hazel was a force to be reckoned with. And if you didn’t, you quickly found out!” 

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Author....Halloween is the only time where the dead can go to the realm of the living as in they became more y'know physical as in people can see and interact with them...

Ghost reader watching over dipper,mabel and their friends going on trick or treating and they still refuse to see stan and ford (they're just making those 2 more miserable) but when the townsfolk see them they want to thank them but couldn't shake their hands or hug them but reader can touch them without a problem

I can just imagine that the townsfolk’s has a memorial or a statue dedicated to you, whatever for it can be up to interpretation.

So when you were watching over Dipper, Mabel, Candy and Grenda as they wandered down the decorated streets of gravity falls in their colourful costumes.

dipper and Mabel decided to dress up as salt and pepper.

Candy dressed up as candy

Grenda dressed as a princess from a show she was into currently.

They all looked fabulous and adorable that it made you wish that you were still alive to take a picture of them, but you were more then content to settle with supervising them as they went from door to door collecting treats.

Obviously you were aware that this was the only day where you could actually interact with anyone of the living realm but still you were adamant in keeping yourself away from Ford and Stanley, whom were also chaperoning the kids for once. However you also manage to catch one or two groups of people looking over at you and whispering amongst themselves for one of them to go up to you. Looks like they could see you even if you did try to hide but thankfully Ford and Stan were out of earshot when one brave soul did managed to walk up to you with a gleam in their eyes.

‘Hi! I just wanted to thank you for saving all of us and all…such a tragedy what happened to you though…’ the young woman trailed off as she looked over at the monument that mayor Fiddleford had commissioned for you personally, the hero of gravity falls they called you and according to candy and Grenda, you were being taught to kids in history lessons at school.

Which you were very touched by, but thought was unnecessary.

‘It’s fine, I just done what needed to be done for the betterment of everyone.’ You told them.

‘Even if it meant loosing everything?’ The young woman inquired.

You looked over at Dipper and Mabel who were waving happily in your direction, followed shortly by everyone else, you smiled at them before you looked back at the young woman. ‘I was more then willing to loose everything if it meant seeing everyone embrace a brighter future because of it.’ You replied with the shrug of your shoulders.

The young woman smiled ‘I would ask for a hug but…’ she trailed off and you couldn’t help but laugh as you pulled the woman into your arms, patting her back reassuringly.

‘It’s perfectly fine! Besides you can’t fully embrace me but I can perfectly embrace you to make up for it.’ You told her as you pulled away, seeing tears shine in her eyes. ‘It’s going to be okay.’ You add. ‘We made it.’

‘You saved the town for us.’ She whispered, ‘I just wish there was more we could’ve done-‘ you put your hands on her shoulders and squeezed.

‘I did save the town, so please treasure it where I cannot okay? That’s all I ask.’ You tell her and the woman smiled at you.

‘Okay.’ She said, ‘I will.’

‘Good, now have a happy Halloween kid.’ You told her as you gently pushed her towards her group of friends, watching as she rejoined the group with a bright smile and walk down the road as she told her eager friends, who looked about ready to clamour over the others just to hear of her brief interaction with you.

‘Great uncle/aunt y/n!’ Dipper cried.

‘Come on we’ve got more houses to rob of candy!’ Mabel added and you couldn’t help but laugh as you walked towards the kids, feeling in content with the fact that Gravity Falls was going to be okay without you.

Unknowing of the fact that Ford and Stan were paying respects at your grave by putting down flowers that Ford has picked up from another dimension during his thirty years, flowers that glowed a beautiful blue/red/purple colour.

‘Happy anniversary old friend.’ Ford said as he puts down the last of the flowers. ‘Wish you would reveal yourself to us so that we can apologise, but I respect your wishes if you don’t for I don’t blame you and hope you’ll rest peacefully knowing that the town is thriving because of you.’

‘You’re a true hero, and we’re the idiots.’ Stanley adds just as a particularly cold breeze brushed past them both.

[newsfromstolenland]

I was hit by a ton of bricks type realization the other day so:

Personally, I remember it happening. As a young teenager in the Toronto area we had...lots of jokes

Also, now you know:

[thiswaycomessomethingwicked]

Street meat and raccoons! I’m surprised lord haven’t gone for Run Over by Premier Doug Ford considering all the people that he’s almost run over and his dislike of Tory

Please enjoy this niche Toronto humour. Also vote! Even if you have no fucking clue what I’m on about.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Toronto City Council voted on a motion Friday afternoon, to rename Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke after former mayor Rob Ford, reversing course over a similar vote in 2017. Several councillor’s questioned whether it was appropriate to name a municipal asset after Ford, citing his many scandals while in office and the manner in which he portrayed civil servants. Etobicoke Lakeshore Councillor Amber Morley attempted to slow the process down, urging fellow members to support her motion seeking more public consultation in order to follow the city’s standards for naming city assets.

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late toronto mayor rob ford smoking crack

[solchrom]

Team Ford goes Godzilla on the waterfront: this ain't your grandpa's conservatism

I’ve tried to avoid the easy snark in reaction to Doug Ford’s musings about turning what’s left of Toronto’s waterfront into a megamall-themed, monorail-adorned, Ferris-wheel-festooned amusement park. It doesn’t do any good, after all, to get all riled up and turn into indignant sputtering caricatures of Left-Wing Kooks every time Brother Doug has a brain fart. But it turns out it wasn’t just a…

[redpandarascal]

my Scott Pilgrim thing is, I always think about how Rob Ford is mayor of the city he lives in at that time

any fan work I did would be about working that in

[memecucker]

The only “left and right odd couple” podcast I’d listen to would be if Rob Ford lived and he and Marion Barry made a podcast called “Mayors Caught With Crack”

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Rob Ford welcoming Eric Adams into mayoral heaven

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#5yrsago Facebook never delivered its “Clear History” feature https://www.tomsguide.com/us/facebook-privacy-problems,news-29944.html

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