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Don Peat @reporterdonpeat
"How many of these are we dealing with at $31,000 a crack?" Mayor Rob Ford asks RE: bike stations. Council chamber laughs at word "crack"
 
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Don Peat ‏@reporterdonpeat 13m
"How many of these are we dealing with at $31,000 a crack?" Mayor Rob Ford asks RE: bike stations. Council chamber laughs at word "crack"

Dammit zeke.
 
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http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/poll...efusal-to-step-aside-not-acceptable-1.1540732

The majority of Torontonians -- 72 per cent -- say Mayor Rob Ford's insistence on remaining in office after he admitted to smoking crack cocaine is "not acceptable," according to a new Ipsos poll.
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Answering another question, 76 per cent of those surveyed said Ford should resign permanently or take a temporary leave.
More than 40 per cent said Ford should resign, get treatment and get out of politics altogether. Thirty-five per cent of respondents said Ford should step aside temporarily and enter a treatment program for three or four months before he can return to his mayoral duties.
The remaining 24 per cent said Ford should keep his job and let voters decide his fate in the 2014 municipal election.
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Despite calls for Ford's resignation, his job performance rating is currently at 40 per cent, according to the Ipsos poll. It slipped from 62 per cent in September 2011 and 49 per cent in June 2012.
His approval rating was highest in the suburbs, especially in Scarborough (49 per cent) and Etobicoke (45 per cent) and much lower in the downtown core (29 per cent).
Forty-six per cent of surveyed Torontonians said the media should back off and give Ford "some time to show that he has changed his ways." Fifty-four per cent of people disagreed with that statement.
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More than 70 per cent of poll respondents said they do not believe the Ford scandal is the result of a "conspiracy driven by Toronto's left wing elite and media who are opposed to his agenda."
Nearly 30 per cent agreed that there is a "left-wing" conspiracy at play.
Since Ford's admission, he has said he has nothing left to hide. Only 29 per cent of residents agree with the statement that Ford "has said there is nothing left to hide – he has admitted to everything and that the past is the past – and I believe him." Seventy-one per cent disagree, the survey found.
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Toronto Argonauts @TorontoArgos
(1/5) Toronto Argonauts Statement: It's well-known that the Mayor is a big fan and supporter of the game of football.

Toronto Argonauts @TorontoArgos
(2/5) The Toronto Argonauts organization is not in a position to comment on the manner of dress of public officials.

Toronto Argonauts @TorontoArgos
(3/5) The situation with respect to the Mayor and his leadership is unseemly at best. These latest remarks, while wearing our team's jersey,

Toronto Argonauts @TorontoArgos
(4/5) are particularly disappointing given our organization's work in the community to help youth deal with issues of bullying prevention.

Toronto Argonauts @TorontoArgos
(5/5) We hope for the benefit of the wonderful citizens of Toronto and this great city that this situation is resolved expeditiously.
 
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I really cannot believe any of this is real, even the worst Hollywood hack couldn't come up with the stuff we are witnessing right now.
 
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“I no longer care. I mean, that’s where I’ve got to. I don’t care. I don’t want to speak to Doug Ford, I don’t want to speak to Rob Ford—there is no point. It’s like a freakin’ stuck record now, this situation…I’m fed up with it. I’m tired of the non-answers.”

—Bill Carroll, AM640 talk show host, after being informed that Doug Ford was calling the station asking to be interviewed on air. “Here’s the process that you go through when you host a talk show,” Carroll said yesterday evening on his drive-time show. “What am I going to ask [Doug Ford]? I can think of half a dozen questions, but they’ve already been asked. I already know in advance what the answers are going to be…These allegations are not even against Doug Ford, so why is it relevant to me?”

http://www.torontolife.com/informer/toronto-politics/2013/11/14/quoted-bill-carroll-doug-rob-ford/
 
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Sun News Network @SunNewsNetwork
#BREAKING: Toronto Mayor #RobFord and Doug Ford have a new show coming on #SunNews - details to come #TOpoli
 
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