Toronto's alleged crack smoking mayor. Why is he still in office?

[Northern_Piper]

Well, the City Council is taking action, stripping him of most of his executive powers:

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Vote passed with only 2 nays - Rob & Doug Ford.

Next up on Monday is a vote to drastically cut his office budget, staffers’ salaries, etc.

Essentially the plan appears to be to neuter him, doing everything short of actually removing him.

And the Premier of Ontario has announced that she is considering legislative amendments to allow the Province to remove a mayor for misconduct short of a criminal conviction, which is currently the only basis for removal, but doesn’t plan on using it if the Council continues to deal with the problem, which it appears to be doing.

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And by the way, you have no idea how scary it is to type “Rob Ford stripped” into Google an wait apprehensively to see what it brings up …

[Colibri]

@Marley23

Is that what poutine is?

No, poutine is covered with brown gravy and cheese curds.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Ford has tried it that and other ways, including with butter, sour cream, and bacon bits, or chocolate sauce and whipped cream.

[RickJay]

@Northern_Piper

And the Premier of Ontario has announced that she is considering legislative amendments to allow the Province to remove a mayor for misconduct short of a criminal conviction, which is currently the only basis for removal, but doesn’t plan on using it if the Council continues to deal with the problem, which it appears to be doing.

Poor Kathleen Wynne must be looking for something, anything, to give people the impression she should keep her job. Do we really need a law for this?

[Muffin]

@Colibri

No, poutine is covered with brown gravy and cheese curds.

Isn’t that what emerges from Ford’s various orifice’s when he is feeling a bit under the weather?

[Muffin]

@RickJay

Poor Kathleen Wynne must be looking for something, anything, to give people the impression she should keep her job. Do we really need a law for this?

All she needs to do is publicizeHarvard’s study of men throughout their lives,

With regards to sex lives, one of the most fascinating discoveries is that aging liberals have way more sex.

and then point out that Ford is conservative. Millions of women will see to it that their spouses vote for the Liberals.

[Gangster_Octopus]

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is just too awesome for mere words.

[Moonlitherial]

In a point and laugh at the train wreck kind of way sure but in a hold my head up in a room full of people and say I voted for him* - no way in hell!

*I actually live in Brampton so even if I wasn’t semi sane voting for Rob was never an option

[D18]

Hey, Moonlitherial, he sez he wants to be Prime Minister, so you may get your chance to vote against him yet. Anyway, he isn’t the first crackhead to run the idea up the flagpole. Ashley Macisaac made headlines a few years ago saying he was going to run for the Liberal leadership. At least Macisaac is bilingual! And an awesome fiddler!

[bashere]

He must have been a helluva a football player:

Mayor Rob Ford knocks over Councillor during November 18 motion of debate

[Little_Nemo]

He wants to run for national office? What is he? Smoking cr-

Oh right.

[twickster]

Gangster Octopus, we don’t really need more than one thread on this dude. I merged yours into the existing multi-page commentary.

[D18]

@Little_Nemo

He wants to run for national office? What is he? Smoking cr-

Oh right.

Well, in Canadian politics, the key question is: how’s his French? How long before you guys ask have to consider whether your Presidential candidates speak good Spanish?

[bashere]

If you’re merging threads, can you change the “alleged” in the title to “admitted”?

[Muffin]

@bashere

He must have been a helluva a football player:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB1dJeMtb08&feature=youtu.be

He should be banned from the premises. City councillors should have a safe working environment.

[installLSC]

Oh if you didn’t watch the first Rob Ford show on Sun News, you’re not going to see a second one cause it’s already been cancelled.

[Ike_Witt]

@RickJay

Poor Kathleen Wynne must be looking for something, anything, to give people the impression she should keep her job. Do we really need a law for this?

Well, Wynne does need to justify the job that she wasn’t elected for. And given what has gone on in Quebec, it may not be a bad idea for the provinces to have ways of getting rid of bad mayors.

[Muffin]

@installLSC

Oh if you didn’t watch the first Rob Ford show on Sun News, you’re not going to see a second one cause it’s already been cancelled.

And for those of you who missed it:
Part 1 http://youtu.be/KL2Rn-DAuTY
Part 2 http://youtu.be/_9qc72vg7aw
Part 3 http://youtu.be/EmnwTW2F0Wc
Part 4 http://youtu.be/ga4kx5T6_44

Summary of the show: it’s all a socialist conspiracy jihad against Ford, he doesn’t like gays, Walmart shoppers support him, everyone across the country should be tested for drugs, and call him at anytime at 416-397-FORD.

[Leaffan]

The Rob Ford movie, starring Chris Farley.

[Northern_Piper]

After re-assuring Torontonians a month ago that he had stopped drinking entirely, we have a new video of the latest drunken stupor, last night in a restaurant, ranting in a mock Jamican accent:

Ford admits to drinking after new video surfaces

:: sigh ::

Just in time for Jimmy Fallon’s new gig.

[Muffin]

Bob Arthurs, a retired school teacher and current president of the Jamaican Canadian Association Alberta, said “bumbaclot” and “rassclot” have become common slang in Jamaica’s poorer communities.

They are essentially synonyms that equate to hurling a particularly vehement f-bomb, he added.

“If you met someone on the street you didn’t know and you said, ‘you’re a bumbaclot,’ that could be a very trying situation for you,” Arthurs said in a telephone interview from Calgary.

Both words have their origins in African languages imported from eras when Jamaica was a hotbed of slavery, said York University Jamaican Creole professor Clive Forrester.

“Bumbo,” meaning vagina in some languages, was combined with the word “klaat” or cloth, he said, adding the final result would literally translate to calling someone a sanitary napkin.

As it was adopted into Jamaican dialect, however, the word took on other connotations and even had serious ramifications for those who used it, he said.

“This is simply a straight up curse word,” Forrester wrote in an email. “Not suitable for use in polite company or in the presence of children, and performers have been fined in the past for using the word on stage.”

Junior Ford, owner of a business in Toronto’s Jamaican community, said direct English equivalents for the words are difficult to pin down.

Apart from being a run-of-the-mill swear word, he said “bumbaclot” and “rassclot” are sometimes used as low-level threats when people are spoiling for a fight.

“It is aggressive. Sometimes you’re saying 'F off”’ or ‘F you.’ It’s almost the same thing," he said.

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/rob-ford-said-what-experts-weigh-in-on-his-jamaican-patois-1.1650446#ixzz2r8bzQNBE