Squeezed in the jaws of rising income inequality, many suburbanites were receptive to Rob Ford's simple and coherent message: cut waste in government, hold the line on taxes, and end the "war on the car." For them, Ford was the right man at the right time.

The dawn of one of Toronto's most enthralling police investigations didn't truly begin until, well, dawn. In the early morning

We've seen our share of bad tattoos but a Toronto man's new ink definitely takes the cake. Kevin Ledo decided to get a black

If there's a white-powdered lining to news that the mayor of the fourth-largest city in North America has a substance abuse problem, it's the opportunity to re-visit dangerous stereotypes about people who smoke crack. You've probably called them "crackheads" or "crack whores." You've probably used the word "crack baby." I probably have too without blinking. Why are we so comfortable using crack users as a verbal punching bag? The reason has roots in racism; Society didn't, and often still doesn't, respect the poor black people who are most associated with the drug.

To the endless delight of click-bait authors everywhere, Rob Ford is showing no signs of leaving the headlines anytime soon. The pundits have been smashing their keyboards in wild fury ever since, so what are some of the conclusions they've been drawing? The famous quip about scandals is that "it's not the crime, it's the cover up." But sometimes it's neither a crime nor a coverup, it's just that the politician is a horrible embarrassing moron that no one likes. But that's hard to say openly, let alone in an op-ed.

With Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s stunning crack cocaine admission came a flood of Twitter reaction. On Tuesday morning, Ford

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted to reporters at City Hall Tuesday that he has smoked crack cocaine. UPDATE: At a news conference

We do. Before Toronto Mayor Rob Ford confessed about his alleged crack cocaine use and a string of other "drunken stupor

All this debate about Rob Ford smoking crack is irrelevant. He doesn't need to go to rehab to get elected. He simply needs to do the job he was hired to do: Disrupt Toronto, Delay Toronto, and Distract Toronto. All so that the people angry with Toronto can sit back and enjoy a good trolling.

While Toronto Police stay silent on what they may have netted in a massive drug raid Thursday, the hacking collective known

The ongoing circus at Toronto City Hall got even stranger on Wednesday after a prankster interrupted a live media scrum to

The obvious question is, if Mayor Ford is charged with possession of crack cocaine does he then lose his post? The short answer is "no." Absent imprisonment, there is really no way to remove a mayor who is charged with an offence.