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I would be to if my country was popular do to the likes of Justin Bieber, Celine Dion and Avril Lavigne. Oh wait you guys have Ice hockey. JK

 

Dude.... maple syrup man, maple syrup.

 

And Canadian bacon.

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I would be to if my country was popular do to the likes of Justin Bieber, Celine Dion and Avril Lavigne. Oh wait you guys have Ice hockey. JK

 

Dude.... maple syrup man, maple syrup.

 

that stuff is nasty

 

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I would be to if my country was popular do to the likes of Justin Bieber, Celine Dion and Avril Lavigne. Oh wait you guys have Ice hockey. JK

 

Dude.... maple syrup man, maple syrup.

 

And Canadian bacon.

 

forgot about the Bacon, was distracted by Justin Bieber's whining.

 

Exactly, we distract you guys with that monster, then we come at you with our sharpened ice skates.

 

MWUHAHAHA!

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Here's an update on this lulzy situation:

 

Five days after two media outlets published reports on a video that appears to show him smoking crack cocaine, Mayor Rob Ford again offered no explanation on Tuesday. He did not say whether he has smoked crack while in office. He did not say whether he used an anti-gay slur. Despite an expression of concern from the premier and renewed pleas from council allies, he did not say anything at all. “I think he should say something, yes,” Ford’s deputy mayor, Doug Holyday, said in an interview. “I think the air needs to be cleared, and I don’t think it’s clear right now.”

 

“He needs to speak to the residents of Toronto about these allegations,” said Councillor Peter Milczyn, a member of Ford’s executive committee. “The mayor has to address this. It’s not going to go away. And it’s a very serious allegation.”

Ford, facing the biggest crisis of his turbulent political career, turned his back on reporters who peppered him with questions while he headed to the city council chamber on an elevator. He brushed past another group of reporters without answering their questions as he entered his office in the early afternoon. He left city hall without comment at around 2 p.m.

On Friday, the day after the reports were published by the Toronto Star and U.S. website Gawker, Ford called unspecified allegations “absolutely not true” and “ridiculous.” He also accused the Toronto Star of “going after” him.

Premier Kathleen Wynne, asked about Ford at Queen’s Park, said without mentioning his name that she is worried about the impact of the scandal on Toronto’s government.

 

“When there is a distraction of a personal nature or a distraction that takes the council and the leadership away from. . . serving the interests of the city and getting the business of the city done, then that’s a problem. And so my hope is that they will be dealt with on a personal level and at a council level as quickly as possible,” Wynne said.

The video appears to show Ford smoking from a glass crack pipe. It also appears to show him calling federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau a “*Censored*” and referring to the high school football players he coaches as “just f---ing minorities.”

The 90-second clip has been offered for sale to various media outlets by men involved in the drug trade. The Star did not pay, but Gawker is attempting to raise the $200,000 it says it needs to make the purchase. Its “Crackstarter” campaign has surpassed $98,000.

 

Two Star reporters viewed the video three times but had no way to verify its authenticity.

Trudeau told reporters in Ottawa that he hopes the reports are false.

“I just hope that the words he’s alleged to have used are not true. Not because I’m personally affected by them, but because it’s a sentiment that a huge number of Canadians, and not just Canadians, of the LGBTQ community find reprehensible and unacceptable,” Trudeau said. Councillor Doug Ford, usually his brother’s fiercest defender amid controversy, has offered only qualified remarks on this scandal. He told the Toronto Sun on the holiday weekend that he cannot speak definitively about the video without seeing it.

 

“I asked Rob to be straight up with me and he tells me he has no idea about what is in this video,” Doug Ford said. “Until we see the video, it’s difficult to comment, but I can tell you that I have never seen Rob involved in anything like that.”

Ford delivered a speech during council’s special meeting on the casino issue, but he was absent from the floor for much of the session. Councillor Frank Di Giorgio, Ford’s budget chief, said the mayor should be allowed to address the reports “at his own rate.” Di Giorgio said he doesn’t know if Ford is keeping mum because the video is a fake or because the video is authentic and he “does not know how to deal with it.” Di Giorgio said all he can do now is “be supportive” of Ford.

“Because if there is a problem, we’ve got to deal with the problem,” Di Giorgio said in an interview. “We’ve got to deal with it from the point of view of the individual, from the point of view of the office, from the point of view of council. What do you do? What do you do with this kind of a thing? Everybody has to be of the same mind and try and do something constructive if we’re dealing with a problem. But I don’t know what we’re dealing with until all the information comes out.”

 

Source: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/21/rob_ford_crack_scandal_mayor_speaks_to_casinos_but_not_drug_video_allegations.html

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There once was an ass from Toronto.

Who wanted to smoke some crack pronto.

He said with a huff

As he took another Puff

Perhaps i should grow a fro.

 

 

.... I know, worst joke ever. I had no bloody idea what to put for that final line. Forgive me!

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There once was an ass from Toronto.

Who wanted to smoke some crack pronto.

He said with a huff

As he took another Puff

Perhaps i should grow a fro.

 

 

.... I know, worst joke ever. I had no bloody idea what to put for that final line. Forgive me!

 

oh you sound like a member of Justin Bieber's writing team

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There once was an ass from Toronto.

Who wanted to smoke some crack pronto.

He said with a huff

As he took another Puff

Perhaps i should grow a fro.

 

 

.... I know, worst joke ever. I had no bloody idea what to put for that final line. Forgive me!

 

oh you sound like a member of Justin Bieber's writing team

 

Now now, i'm not THAT bad.

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Took the fat bastard a week to respond, but he finally did.

 

The Mayor of Toronto has denied using crack cocaine after a video purported to show him smoking the drug.

Responding to allegations that first surfaced more than a week ago, Rob Ford told a news conference at Toronto City Hall: "I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine.

"As for a video, I cannot comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist."

Mr Ford, 43, lashed out at the media for judging him "without any evidence" - but declined to take any questions from journalists.

He explained he had kept a long silence on the advise of his lawyer.

"This past week has not been an easy one. And it's taken a great toll on my family and my friends and the great people of Toronto," he said, thanking those who supported him.

City councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker said he was disappointed in Mr Ford's statement and called on him to resign and "go seek help".

"The Mayor is just imploding," he said. "The Mayor had an opportunity to acknowledge that perhaps he does have a problem ... instead he went on the attack."

The Toronto Star said it had been approached by purported drug dealers looking to sell the video. They apparently said it was shot on a mobile phone by a person who claimed to have supplied Mr Ford with crack cocaine.

 

The newspaper claimed the footage showed the politician "sitting in a chair, wearing a white shirt, top buttons open, inhaling from what appears to be a glass crack pipe".

It said two of its reporters watched the video three times, but admitted it could not verify the authenticity of the clip.

However, it did appear to "clearly show the Mayor in a well-lit room".

The Mayor's statement came at the end of a dramatic week.

Mr Ford fired his chief of staff, Mark Towhey, on Thursday but gave no reason for his dismissal. Mr Towhey, who was escorted from City Hall by security staff, would only say that he did not resign.

A day earlier, Mr Ford was sacked from his job as football coach at a Catholic school for reasons unrelated to the alleged drugs video scandal.

Toronto Catholic District School Board spokesman John Yan said the decision to remove Mr Ford as the head of the Don Bosco Eagles Football programme had to do with the comments the Mayor made that parents found offensive.

Mr Yan claimed Mr Ford characterised the parent community as not caring about their kids, that the students were involved in gangs and guns and were it not for him they would be in jail.

Mr Ford was elected in 2010 on a promise to "stop the gravy train" at City Hall but he has frequently attracted unfavourable news coverage.

The Toronto Star reported earlier this year that he was asked to leave a gala fundraiser for wounded Canadian soldiers because he appeared drunk.

During his campaign for mayor Mr Ford vehemently denied a 1999 arrest for marijuana possession in Florida, but later acknowledged it was true after he was presented with evidence.

 

Source: http://news.sky.com/story/1095415/toronto-mayor-denies-smoking-crack-cocaine

 

In regards to Gawker / Deadspin's attempt at getting the tape, they're now up to $145,000: http://gawker.com/rob-ford-crackstarter-update-509596078

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