Rob Ford, Toronto's ex-mayor and celebrity drug user, is dead at 46
 

Rob Ford, Toronto's ex-mayor and celebrity drug user, is dead at 46
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TORONTO — Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died Tuesday after fighting cancer, his family said. He was 46.

Ford rode into ****** on a backlash against urban elites. He cast an image sharply at odds with Canada's reputation for sedate, unpretentious politics. His tenure as mayor of the country's largest city was marred by revelations about his drinking problems and ***** cocaine use. He was repeatedly videotaped and photographed while intoxicated in public.

Nevertheless, after losing that ****** he was later elected by a landslide to a City Council seat, a job he held until his death. Read more...

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