Robert Bruce Ford was a Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014.
71 Facts About Rob Ford
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Rob Ford was first elected to Toronto City Council in the 2000 Toronto municipal election, and was re-elected to his council seat twice.
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Rob Ford took a sabbatical and received treatment for his alcohol and drug addiction.
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John Tory succeeded him as mayor on December 1,2014, while Rob Ford regained his former seat.
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Rob Ford received treatment for the cancer, and was able to return briefly to council, but died in March 2016 after chemotherapy was ineffective.
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Rob Ford's father, along with Ted Herriott, was co-founder of Deco Labels and Tags, which makes pressure-sensitive labels for plastic-wrapped grocery products at an estimated in annual sales, and was a Progressive Conservative member of the Provincial Parliament from 1995 to 1999.
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Rob Ford dreamed of becoming a professional football player, and his father paid for him to attend special camps of the Washington Redskins and the University of Notre Dame.
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Rob Ford made the football squad, but did not play in any games.
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Rob Ford left Carleton after one year to return to Toronto and did not complete his degree.
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Rob Ford, alongside his brothers and their mother was a director of the company.
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Rob Ford lived with Renata and their two children, Stephanie and Doug, in Etobicoke until his death in 2016.
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Rob Ford served three terms as city councillor from 2000 until October 2010, representing Ward 2 Etobicoke North.
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Rob Ford was known for his controversial comments and passionate arguments at council.
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Rob Ford first ran for Toronto City Council in 1997, placing fourth to Gloria Lindsay Luby in Ward 3 Kingsway-Humber.
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Rob Ford ran for councillor in Ward 2 Etobicoke North in the following election in 2000, getting the endorsement of the Toronto Star.
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Rob Ford defeated incumbent Elizabeth Brown in what was considered one of several upsets in Etobicoke.
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Rob Ford had previously resided in the ward, but moved in 2000 prior to the election, after his marriage, to Ward 4.
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Rob Ford argued against spending money on the suicide prevention barrier on the Prince Edward Viaduct, and spending it instead on rounding up child molesters "who are the main cause of people jumping off bridges".
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Rob Ford proposed a cut to each councillor's $200,000 office budget, money for travel to conferences, ending city limousine usage and club memberships.
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Rob Ford made a point of not using his allotted city budget for his office expenses, paying for the expenses from his salary.
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Rob Ford claimed $10 for his first year, and $4 for his second year.
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The argument got heated to the point where Rob Ford called Mammolitti a "Gino-boy".
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Three councillors stated that they heard the insult said by Rob Ford, who denied it.
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Rob Ford dismissed the councillors stating that they were liars if they thought he had made a racist remark.
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Rob Ford was one of only three councillors to call back in person, within a day.
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In June 2006, Rob Ford spoke out against the city donating $1.5 million to help prevent AIDS, arguing that most taxpayers should not be concerned with AIDS.
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Rob Ford publicly apologized for the comments in May 2010 during his mayoral campaign after his opponent, George Smitherman, called Rob Ford's character into question over the remarks.
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At a council meeting on March 5,2008, Rob Ford stated "Those Oriental people work like dogs", a remark he later formally apologized for while stating that he meant it as a compliment.
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On March 7,2007, Rob Ford spoke out against cyclists sharing roads with motorists, which were "built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes".
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Bike lanes were installed on Jarvis in 2010 over the objection of traffic advocates, and Rob Ford made it a priority to get them removed during his campaign.
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Ward-by-ward electoral results showed that Rob Ford had won all of the former pre-amalgamation suburbs, while Smitherman topped districts in the pre-amalgamation Toronto districts.
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Rob Ford ran on a populist platform of fiscal conservatism and subway expansion.
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From his campaign team, Rob Ford named Nick Kouvalis as his chief of staff; Mark Towhey, who had drafted his campaign platform, as his policy advisor; and Adrienne Batra, his communications advisor, as press secretary.
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Cherry described how Rob Ford had reversed a mistake of city staff cutting down a tree of a Toronto property owner for no good reason and then billing the property owner, who suffered from Alzheimer's.
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The tax cancellation, a campaign promise of Rob Ford's, took effect on January 1,2011.
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Under Rob Ford, council voted to declare the TTC an essential service.
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Rob Ford reduced, but was unable to completely remove, the Miller-era land transfer tax.
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Rob Ford registered on January 2,2014, as a candidate in the fall's mayoral election.
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On September 12,2014, Rob Ford suddenly withdrew his candidacy due to the discovery of a tumour in his abdomen which was suspected to be, and subsequently confirmed to be cancerous.
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Rob Ford stated that he intended to run for mayor again in 2018.
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Rob Ford first coached at Newtonbrook Secondary School in 2001, until he was dismissed over a dispute with a player.
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Rob Ford coached at Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School from 2001 until 2013 when the Toronto Catholic District School Board dismissed him after a controversial television interview led to a review of his coaching.
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Rob Ford said at the time that he was glad the ordeal was over and that he and his wife had sought marital counselling.
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Rob Ford suffered from alcohol and drug addiction for many years.
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When confronted about the episode three days later by a National Post reporter, Rob Ford initially denied having been at the game, but later admitted it.
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Rob Ford pleaded no contest to the DUI charge, while the marijuana charge was withdrawn.
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When presented with the arrest paperwork, Rob Ford apologized and claimed he had forgotten about it.
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Rob Ford then announced at a press conference that he had been charged with failing to provide a breath sample, when he had been arrested and convicted of drunk driving.
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At Saint Patrick's Day festivities in March 2012, Rob Ford was "very intoxicated" at City Hall and a downtown restaurant.
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Rob Ford knocked down a staffer, insulted others, then went to a restaurant.
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Rob Ford then wandered around City Hall after 2:00am with a bottle of brandy, using profane language at his staffer, Earl Provost, before security arranged for him to be taken home.
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Rob Ford's staff tried to convince Rob Ford to get treatment for his alcoholism, but he initially refused.
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Rob Ford was reported smoking marijuana in a shopping plaza parking lot.
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In February 2013, Rob Ford attended the Garrison Ball and was reported to be incoherent.
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Rob Ford's staff ushered him out after an event organizer asked him to leave.
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In March 2013, Rob Ford was accused of groping former mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson at a social event, and Thomson publicly stated that she thought that he was high on cocaine.
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Rob Ford was video-recorded issuing profanities during an argument with the security staff.
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Rob Ford later denied being intoxicated, and blamed the incident on voting against a $10 million contribution to MLSE's plan to expand BMO Field.
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The video shows Rob Ford smoking crack cocaine from a glass pipe.
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Rob Ford's words are slurred and mostly inaudible during the conversation.
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Rob Ford announced that he would not run in the 2014 Toronto mayoral election because of his illness; his brother Doug would run in his place.
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Rob Ford chose to run for his former Ward 2 seat on the City Council.
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Rob Ford was likely to shortly begin treatment with multiple chemotherapy agents; the doctor did not say whether Ford would need to have surgery or radiation treatments.
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On September 17,2014, Dr Zane Cohen of Mount Sinai Hospital revealed that Rob Ford had been diagnosed with pleomorphic liposarcoma, a rare form of cancer that arises in adipose tissue.
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Rob Ford said he would be "out of commission" for four months.
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At a community barbecue hosted by the Ford family in 2015, Rob announced that doctors had cleared him of cancerous tumours.
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On October 28,2015, Rob Ford revealed, and his physician confirmed, that a new tumour was growing on his bladder.
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The next day, Doug Rob Ford advised reporters that the tumour had been found to be cancerous and consistent with liposarcoma, based on a CT scan.
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On March 17,2016, Rob Ford's office announced he was in the hospital "with his family beside him" as chemotherapy treatment had not been successful, and Rob Ford's health was being reviewed to determine if he could continue treatment.
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On March 21,2016, Rob Ford's office confirmed that he had been placed into palliative care at Mount Sinai Hospital.
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Rob Ford was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Etobicoke where his father is buried.