The Greatest, Drunkest Hits of Toronto’s (Alleged) Crack-Smoking Mayor

He received a DUI in 1999, but denied it during his mayoral campaign a decade later until the proof was presented.

In 2006, he was ejected from a Maple Leafs game for being drunk and belligerent. He allegedly asked another fan who complained, “Are you some kind of right wing Commie bastard?” (He tried to deny being at the game.)

In 2008, he said, “Those Oriental people work like dogs. They work their hearts out. They are workers non-stop. They sleep beside their machines. That’s why they’re successful in life. … I’m telling you, the Oriental people, they’re slowly taking over.”

That same month, he was arrested and charged with domestic assault after his wife called police, but the case was later dropped.
In 2010, he offered to help a sick man “score” OxyContin. During the taped phone conversation, he said, “Fuck, you know, I don’t know any drug dealers at all.”

In 2011, he skipped a Canada Day pride parade in Toronto, on the grounds that his family always goes away for a family vacation on that holiday. Photos later surfaced showing him marching in another Canada Day parade just one year earlier.

In 2011, Ford called 911 after being ambushed by a crew from the comedy show This Hour Has 22 Minutes. During the call, he reportedly berated the operator saying, “You bitches! Don’t you fucking know? I’m Rob fucking Ford, the mayor of this city!”

On St. Patrick’s Day 2012, Ford was escorted out of a restaurant after “storming the dance floor” and acting “like an idiot.” Staffers there described him as “incoherent and “hammered”

Last summer, pictures surfaced of a “disheleved” Ford posing for pictures with a bachelorette party.

In his spare time, Ford coaches football at Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School, whose players he has often demeaned in interviews. Many of the players come from underpriviliged backgrounds, and Ford claimed many of them would not go to school at all and would be dead or in jail, if it wasn’t for football.

Ford was nearly removed from office last year after making a questionable donation to the team, and for soliciting donations for the school from city lobbyists. There are also multiple instances of Ford leaving government events and even his own libel trial to coach the team. After one game, two city buses were diverted to pick up his team (that had been involved in a post-game brawl) stranding actual bus passengers in the rain.

In March of this year, former mayoral candidate Sarah Thomson claims Ford “grabbed my ass” while they were posing for a picture, and after he made a lewd suggestion to her. Thomson says she told a friend. “There’s something wrong with him. Rob doesn’t do that.”

Just three months ago, Ford was kicked out of a gala charity ball because organizers believed he was impaired.

He’s got a thing for magnets too.