Toronto’s mayor feels heat over crack video
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Calls for the resignation of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford intensified after police said they had obtained a video that appears to show him smoking a crack pipe, discovered in a massive surveillance operation of a friend who is suspected of supplying the mayor with drugs.
Police said they did not have enough evidence to file charges against Ford, who had claimed the video didn’t exist and vowed not to quit.
Voters could have the final word on the career of the populist mayor whose travails have captivated and embarrassed Canadians for months. Ford has promised to run for a second term next year. “I have no reason to resign,” Ford said, smiling, as his office welcomed visitors to check out its Halloween decorations on Thursday.
The embattled mayor said he couldn’t defend himself because the affair is part of a criminal probe involving an associate, adding: “That’s all I can say right now.”
Ford faced allegations in May that he had been caught on video puffing from a glass crack pipe. Two reporters with the Toronto Star said they saw the video, but it has not been released publicly. Ford maintained he does not smoke crack and that the video did not exist.
Ford was elected mayor three years ago on a wave of discontent simmering in the city’s outlying suburbs. Since then he has survived an attempt to remove him from office on conflict-of-interest charges and has appeared in the news for his increasingly odd behavior. But the pressure ramped up on Thursday with all four major local dailies asking Ford to resign.
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