Toronto Star versus Mayor

If you have been following the news in Canada, you must have heard about the questionable, if not outright fraudulent, expense claims submitted by certain Senators. At the municipal level, we have Toronto’s outspoken mayor, Rob Ford, trying to stickhandle around allegations about his involvement with drugs. While the senate attempts to deal with their problems with a level of respectability befitting their roles, Rob Ford on the other hand has opted to attack those that brought exposure to his shenanigans by referring to reporters as maggots. The media, specifically the Toronto Star, have had an ongoing acrimonious connection with Ford. Here’s their latest response to being called maggots.  http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/05/27/brothers_ford_rushed_headlong_into_a_public_spectacle_of_venom_and_bile_dimanno.html      

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