Conrad Black: The salvation of Rob Ford
-- National Post
The Rob Ford controversy is following a traditional pattern, but is now set to produce some surprises. It seemed to begin as the mayor’s critics, and not everyone has to like his full-figured, Archie Bunker-style, leaped with joy at suggestions that the mayor might be a crack cocaine-user (like, on an occasional basis, a very large number of other people). Then, as happens when a mob composed of the ideological left and the vast mass of those who enjoy (no matter how tawdry or parochial the details) watching the mighty fall begin to see a catastrophic career failure in progress, the frenzy took hold. Everything is then invoked as proof of ignobility, unfitness for a place of public trust, and moral turpitude.
Disgraced Toronto Mayor Rob Ford loses most of senior staff
-Fox News
The majority of disgraced Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's senior staff now works for Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly.
'Ford Nation' cancelled by Sun News Network after one episode due to costs
-CTV
TORONTO - The plug has been pulled on Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's new TV show after a single episode.
Sun News Network vice-president Kory Teneycke says "Ford Nation" was the highest rated program ever on the channel, grabbing 155,000 viewers when it first aired last night.
