Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story (38 page)

pg.  8
“Tonight,” he began:
This line was about a minute into the speech. The full speech is at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALAQjRknPKM
.

pg.  10
In a profile interview for the
Toronto Star
:
Linda Diebel, “Adam Giambrone Has Bumpy Ride in Run for Mayor,”
Toronto Star
, February 1, 2010.

pg.  11
He cited the polarized political climate:
Vanessa Lu, “John Tory Won’t Run for Mayor,”
Toronto Star
, January 7, 2010.

pg.  14
the return on every dollar could be leveraged:
Toronto Arts Foundation, January 2012,
www.torontoartsfoundation.org/Our-Programs/Advocacy
.

pg.  14
Unemployment was at 10.36 percent:
This is the three-month average, seasonally adjusted statistic for August–October, 2010. City of Toronto, Economic and Cultural Research Division.

pg.  14
national average of 8 percent:
Statistics Canada, “Unemployment Rate, Canada, Provinces, Health Regions (2013 Boundaries) and Peer Groups.”

pg.  14
Bankruptcies in and around Toronto were nearly triple:
“Toronto’s Economic Recovery Leaving Many Behind,” TD Bank Financial Group, October 22, 2010,
www.unitedwaytoronto.com/downloads/whatWeDo/reports/2010_
TDEconomic_Recovery_Report.pdf
.

pg.  15
“Gino boy”:
Ford denied using the slur, although numerous councillors said they heard it. Ford also apologized: “If Councillor Mammoliti thinks I offended him, I apologize.” Bruce DeMara, “Councillors End Spat with Tepid Apologies: Ford Still Denies Making Ethnic Slur Against Italians,”
Toronto Star
, March 7, 2002.

pg.  15
“a waste of skin”:
Paul Moloney and John Spears, “Councillors Square Off in a Verbal Slugfest,”
Toronto Star
, July 19, 2005.

pg.  15
“If you’re not doing needles”:
“Rob Ford on AIDS,”
National Post
, June 28, 2006.

pg.  15
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16
“Who the fuck do you think you are?”:
Dan and Rebecca Hope wrote a letter to city clerk Ulli Watkiss after the incident at the Maple Leafs game. It was entitled “A Rare Night Out.”

pg.  16
He coached her to say “no comment”:
Jeff Gray and Timothy Appleby, “Ford Called Police Night Before Arrest,”
The Globe and Mail
, March 27, 2008.

pg.  16
“Rob Ford has reshuffled the deck”:
David Rider, “Ford Surges into Second Place in Mayoral Poll,”
Toronto Star
, April 16, 2010.

pg.  17
claimed he’d forgotten about it:
Jonathan Jenkins and Rob Lamberti, “Ford Dodges Pot Bust in Florida,”
Toronto Sun
, August 18, 2010.

pg.  17
“The phone would not stop ringing that day”:
Interview with Stefano Pileggi, August 23, 2013.

pg.  17
close to twenty-five thousand dollars overnight in campaign donations:
Interview with two members of Rob Ford’s campaign team, June and August 2013.

CHAPTER 2:
DOUGIE LOVED POLITICS

pg.  20
His daughter, Kathy, then aged thirty-seven, was a heroin user:
In an interview with CP24 on November 7, 2013, Kathy Ford told host Stephen LeDrew she was a former “addict.” A high-placed police source, two members of the Fords’ extended family, and a close associate of Kathy Ford who used to live with her have each told me directly that the mayor’s sister is addicted to “drugs” or “heroin.” Finally, when Kathy Ford’s long-time lover Scott MacIntyre was arrested in 2012, his lawyer said the following in his submissions: “He has been in a relationship with her for several years. They are both involved in the use of drugs, they’ve gone through various periods of being clean and relapsing, and that’s not an unusual situation.” In rendering his decision, the judge banned MacIntyre and Ford from communicating while MacIntyre sought treatment for drug addiction. Kathy Ford, he said, “has her own issues. I think that her issues in combination with Mr. MacIntyre’s issues are simply a prescription for disaster.”

pg.  21
Scharger, who ran his own polygraph company:
Nelson Scharger retired from the Toronto Police Service in 1995. Afterwards, he worked at his own company, N.S. Polygraph Services. Reached at his home in November 2013, Scharger declined to comment.

pg.  22
The blast hit Kiklas in the chest:
Dieter A. Kiklas, letter to the editor, “Michael Kiklas Died a Hero Protecting Others,”
Toronto Star
, August 21, 1998.

pg.  22
News reports suggest he was dead:
Michelle Shephard, “Murder Suspect Eludes Police: Cottage Country Searched After Saturday Slaying,”
Toronto Star
, July 26, 1998; and “Homicide Suspect Arrested,”
The Globe and Mail
, July 27, 1998.

pg.  22
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act:
“The Battle of Smoot-Hawley,”
The Economist
, December 18, 2008.

pg.  22
The output of Canada’s manufacturing sector:
Information in this paragraph was taken from an article by Joe Martin, director of Canadian business history at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto: “Great Depression Hit One Country Hardest of All,” Bloomberg, March 26, 2013. See
www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-26/great-depression-hit-one-country-hardest-of-all.html
.

pg.  23
By 1933, workers in Toronto were earning 60 percent:
James Lemon,
Toronto Since 1918
(Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, 1985), p. 60.

pg.  23
Two years later, a quarter of the population:
James Lemon,
Toronto Since 1918
(Toronto: James Lorimer & Company, 1985), p. 59.

pg.  23
By the early 1930s … two largest ethnic groups, Jews and Italians:
Census of Canada 1931, “Population of Cities and Towns 10,000 and Over, Classified According to Racial Origin,” p. 499.

pg.  23
on public beaches:
Rosie DiManno, “Remembering the Christie Pits Riot,”
Toronto Star
, August 10, 2013.

pg.  23
Doug Sr. was raised in a rundown neighbourhood:
Information about Doug Ford Sr.’s early life was gathered through interviews with people who knew him, such as former MPP John Parker and his former business partner, Ted Herriott, as well as a former employee of Deco and two members of the Fords’ extended family.

pg.  24
“Marry me and you’ll be marrying a millionaire”:
Interview with member of the extended Ford family, May 2013.

pg.  24
nearly enough brothers and sisters—nine:
In interviews about his father, Rob Ford has usually said Doug Sr. was one of nine children, although he has occasionally said he was one of ten. In the legislature, Doug Sr. said he was one of nine children.

pg.  25
earning Salesman of the Month:
Interview with Councillor John Parker, July 29, 2013. Parker was an MPP with Doug Ford in the Ontario Legislature during the Mike Harris years.

pg.  25
“My wife and I talked about it”:
Interview with Ted Herriott, September 7, 2013.

pg.  26
Ted Herriott was the president:
Toronto City Directory, 1963
, Part 1 (Toronto Reference Library).

pg.  27
“We thought Doug had two left feet”:
Interview with Patricia Herriott, September 7, 2013.

pg.  28
Doug Sr. became president, Clarence Campbell became vice-president:
Toronto City Directory, 1967
, Part 1 (Toronto Reference Library).

pg.  28
Kathy ran the administrative side:
Interview with Gary Moody, October 15, 2013.

pg.  29
Deco employed about forty-five people:
Patrick McConnell, “Businessman Wins Humber Tory Nomination,”
Etobicoke Life
, February 22, 1995.

pg.  29
clearing millions of dollars in annual sales:
A 1994/1995
Toronto City Directory
put estimated sales at between one million and ten million dollars and the number of employees at thirty-eight.

pg.  29
a story told in the weekly
Etobicoke Life
:
Patrick McConnell, “Businessman Wins Humber Tory Nomination,”
Etobicoke Life
, February 22, 1995.

pg.  30
Robert Bruce, weighing in at nine pounds, one ounce:
Birth announcement,
Toronto Star
, May 31, 1969.

pg.  31
By the early 1980s, they were appearing in the society pages:
Greg McArthur and Shannon Kari, “Globe Investigation: The Ford Family’s History with Drug Dealing,”
The Globe and Mail
, May 25, 2013.

pg.  31
Doug Ford Sr. was a founding member of the Rexdale Rotary Club … first CT scan machine:
Tamara Shephard, “Community Mourns Loss of Former MPP Doug Ford,”
Toronto Star
, September 26, 2006.

pg.  32
Between 1981 and 1987, he was twice found guilty of theft and assault:
Court documents showing charges and sentencing information from Toronto, Brampton, Cobourg, and Newmarket.

pg.  32
the
Globe
ran a four-thousand-word investigation:
Greg McArthur and Shannon Kari, “Globe Investigation: The Ford Family’s History with Drug Dealing,”
The Globe and Mail
, May 25, 2013.

pg.  33
“Three Etobicoke men have been charged”:
“Charges Laid in $5,000 Extortion Bid After Man Held for 10 Hours,”
Toronto Star
, December 12, 1986.

pg.  34
“an outright lie”:
Ann Hui and Amber Daugherty, “Doug Ford Disputes Globe Report on Family History with Drug Dealing,”
The Globe and Mail
, May 25, 2013.

pg.  34
“sleazy journalism … is that the best
The Globe and Mail
has?”:
Jackson Proskow, “Doug Ford Denies Drug Trade Allegations,” Global News, May 25, 2013. See
http://globalnews.ca/news/589636/doug-ford-calls-drug-trade-allegations-sleazy-journalism
.

pg.  35
“If you want to go calling”:
Bill Weir, “Reporter’s Notebook: In the Heart of Ford Nation with Toronto’s Embattled Mayor,” CNN, November 18, 2013. See
www.cnn.com/2013/11/18/world/weir-reporters-notebook
.

pg.  35
I reached out to hundreds of the Fords’ former classmates:
The overwhelming majority of these calls were made by my research assistant, Simon Bredin. All quotes that appear in the book are a result of interviews I either conducted or fact-checked with the source. These include interviews with Mark Stenoff, Bill Gianakopoulos, Dave Miteff, David Profitt, and Laura Biernat, July–August 2013.

pg.  36
The caption on the team photo that year:
Scarlett Heights Collegiate yearbook, 1985.